| 5 | | As with the [wiki:Sensors/Hawk], the detector technology is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_cadmium_telluride Mercury Cadmium Telluride], this time tuned for LWIR rather than SWIR. This means there may be a number of bad pixels that need to be masked out. The OWL has also been found to have "blinking" pixels (also called "naughty", as they're not reliably bad), which switch between two different levels during the capture - at the time of writing, these are masked out, though it is hoped that data can be recovered from them in future. The detector uses a full-frame readout method, so is not suspectible to straylight during readout (as is the case with the Eagle). |
| | 5 | As with the [wiki:Sensors/Hawk], the detector technology is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_cadmium_telluride Mercury Cadmium Telluride], this time tuned for LWIR rather than SWIR. This means there may be a number of bad pixels that need to be masked out. The OWL has also been found to have "blinking" pixels (also called "naughty", as they're not reliably bad), which switch between two different levels during the capture - at the time of writing, these are masked out, though it is hoped that data can be recovered from them in future. The detector uses a full-frame readout method, so is not susceptible to straylight during readout (as is the case with the Eagle). Please see the attachments for further information on blinkers provided by Specim. |