Camera Technology – Part 1

Security CCTV camera in office building

The key to the Electro-Optic (EO) sensor (a camera and a lens assembly) will be the quality of the image. If the image quality is poor and unreliable, then user confidence will ebb very quickly, and the system will fail. An imaging device, the camera, is required to provide Detection, Recognition, and Identification (DRI). DRI is the most critical performance criteria of an imaging device in any role.