We present Johnson UBV , and Kron-Cousins I photometry for about 60,000 stars in a region of 44 × 33 arcmin2 centered on the Galactic globular cluster (GGC) NGC 2808. The central r < 100 arcsec region has been mapped also in the F218W, F439W, and F555W bands with the HST WFPC2 camera. Overall, we cover a field which extends from the center to about 1.7 tidal radii. Photometric calibration has b...

A low-cost unmanned aerial platform (UAV) equipped with RGB (Red, Green, Blue) and thermographic sensors is used for the acquisition of all the data needed for the automatic detection and evaluation of thermal pathologies on photovoltaic (PV) surfaces and geometric defects in the mounting on photovoltaic power stations. RGB imagery is used for the generation of a georeferenced 3D point cloud th...

Recent progress in computational photography has shown that we can acquire near-infrared (NIR) information in addition to the normal visible (RGB) band, with only slight modifications to standard digital cameras. Due to the proximity of the NIR band to visible radiation, NIR images share many properties with visible images. However, as a result of the material dependent reflection in the NIR pa...

Aluminum is an alternative plasmonic material in the visible regions of the spectrum due to its attractive properties such as low cost, high natural abundance, ease of processing, and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) and liquid crystal display (LCD) compatibility. Here, we present plasmonic colour filters based on coaxial holes in aluminium that operate in the visible range. Using...

GB in graphics is both a way of specifying color and a way of viewing color. Graphics algorithms manipulate RGB colors, and the images produced by graphics algorithms are encoded as RGB pixels and displayed on devices that render these pixels by emitting RGB light. Colored images are also used to specify color in graphics. These images may be captured by cameras or scanners, interactively drawn...

This paper demonstrates that, for applications in resource-limited environments, expensive microplate spectrophotometers that are used in many central laboratories for parallel measurement of absorbance of samples can be replaced by photometers based on inexpensive and ubiquitous, consumer electronic devices (e.g., scanners and cell-phone cameras). Two devices, (i) a flatbed scanner operating i...

A multispectral filter array (MSFA) image sensor with red, green, blue and near-infrared (NIR) filters is useful for various imaging applications with the advantages that it obtains color information and NIR information simultaneously. Because the MSFA image sensor needs to acquire invisible band information, it is necessary to remove the IR cut-offfilter (IRCF). However, without the IRCF, the ...