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Alien Vision: Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum with Imaging Technology (SPIE Press Monograph Vol. PM104) [Paperback]

Austin Richards (Author)
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ISBN-10: 0819441422 | ISBN-13: 978-0819441423 | Publication Date: October 15, 2001
Austin Richards takes readers on a visual tour of the electromagnetic spectrum beyond the range of human sight, using imaging technology as the means to 'see' invisible light. Dozens of colorful images and clear, concise descriptions make this an intriguing, accessible technical book. Richards explains the light spectrum, including visible light, and describes the advanced imaging technologies that enable humans to synthesize our own version of 'alien' vision at different wavelengths, with applications ranging from fire fighting and law enforcement to botany and medicine.

Contents

- List of Figures

- Preface

- Introduction

- Infrared and Ultraviolet: The Edges of the Rainbow

- Thermal Imaging: We All Glow in the Dark

- Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Imaging: Piercing the Veil

- X Rays and Gamma Rays: Crookes Tubes and Nuclear Light

- Acoustic Imaging: Seeing with Sound

- Sweeping through the Spectrum: Comparative Imagery

- Epilogue

- Glossary

- Bibliography and Internet Resources

- Index

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''Having been ... involved with industrial infrared imaging for nearly 20 (years), I enjoyed this book immensely.'' --John Snell, Snell Infrared, June 8, 2001

About the Author

Austin Richards is an industrial physicist at Indigo Systems Corp. in Santa Barbara, Calif. He received a bachelor's degree in physics from Amherst College in 1989 and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from UC Berkeley in 1995. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. and the University of Stockholm, Sweden, where he contributed to the AMANDA project, a kilometer-scale neutrino detector under construction in Antarctica. He teaches part-time at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara.

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  • Paperback: 184 pages
  • Publisher: SPIE Publications (October 15, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0819441422
  • ISBN-13: 978-0819441423
  • Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, great vision!, August 29, 2007
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The book disappointed me at first, a little, because I thought I was getting something more of physics, more mathematical, like a high school study book. But as it turned out, it is quite fascinating and pretty! The images taken there are so beautiful, it will not disappoint anyone even if they're into plane physics and not images. I recommend it to everyone who likes physics and light!
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This review is from: Alien Vision: Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum with Imaging Technology (SPIE Press Monograph Vol. PM104) (Paperback)
Austin is one the foremost scientists in the exciting field of electronic imaging. It was my pleasure to review this book when I was an editor in chief for a trade pub several years back and it is one of my favorites. It is not a tech heavy book, rather well written and a favorite in my personal library. Buy it and you will learn so much and get in on a growing field of applications that now includes ultraviolet imaging in Austin's vast knowledge of emerging photonic and electronic imaging.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Alien Vision What a book!! Austin Richards has done it., August 8, 2001
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The real life effects of Thermal Images and Electromagnetic Spectrum Imaging by Dr. Richards is the best-kept secret. The amount color images and the current technology are incredible.

This is one you will not be able to put down.

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