How NVGs Work
Credit: Ken del Rossi
Civil operators shopping for night-vision devices will encounter two broad categories of such equipment: thermal imagers, and light amplifiers or intensifiers. Thermal imaging relies on a sensor that detects the heat emanating from surrounding objects. Heat -- actually light in the infrared spectrum...
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