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 | | One significant issue related to bolometers is that various operational characteristics of bolometers (in addition to the sensitivity of its active area to incident radiation and corresponding changes in bolometer resistance due to the incident radiation of interest) are functions of the temperature of the bolometer itself. |
 | | This variation in nominal resistance from bolometer to bolometer, with reference to an average nominal resistance of all of the bolometers, is referred to for purposes of this disclosure as an"offset error."Accordingly, each bolometer may be associated with a particular resistance value that reflects that bolometer's offset error. |
 | | This variation in response from bolometer to bolometer at a given calibration temperature is referred to for purposes of this disclosure as"gain error."Since a bolometer essentially measures the temperature of an object of interest relative to an average temperature of the scene being imaged, the gain of a bolometer may be expressed as |
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