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Ultraviolet Reflectance Imaging: Applications

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Ultraviolet imaging has long been thought to be difficult and awkward by many photographers because of the difficulties encountered when using photographic film in the UV band. Digital ultraviolet imaging is becoming increasingly affordable and lends itself to a number of interesting applications that have been largely overlooked, and digital sensors are available that span the UV spectrum from 200 to 400 nm.

Dr. Austin Richards, Oculus Photonics

Reflected-ultraviolet imaging is a rather mysterious area of the imaging field. There is relatively little actual UV imagery to be found on the Internet or in the literature compared to near-infrared imagery. There has been no aesthetic use of UV imaging to drive technology development as there have been in the near-IR band. UV landscape images are generally not very interesting compared to near-IR photographs that show snow-white vegetation and brilliant white clouds against almost black skies. In a pure UV image taken outdoors, blue skies look bright white, distant objects are usually hazy...Read full article

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