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in standard and professional photography or a tunable filter are employed. A<br />

tunable filter has the ability to change its sensitivity to light by means of an<br />

internal magnetic field that can be controlled by the user [16-18], so that the same<br />

one filter may be used to replace a whole set of traditional filters. As the<br />

configuration of a tunable filter is tuned electronically in real time by the<br />

controlling computer, the acquisition with a tunable filter is therefore faster<br />

compared to traditional filters that are changed one time for each simulated sensor;<br />

also, operating a tunable filter does not imply more technical setup issues (if any)<br />

than those encountered using a filter wheel.<br />

For these reasons, we based our 'wide-band' acquisition system [2] on a VIS2<br />

VariSpec Tunable Filter (from Cambridge Research and Instrumentation); this<br />

filter has a nominal bandwidth of 40nm at 500 nm. The rest of the system consists<br />

of a Photometrics CoolSnap digital camera (from Roper Scientific) with a<br />

resolution of 1392 by 1040 pixels and a dynamic range of 12 bits, a high-quality<br />

28mm f/4 Rodagon lens (from Rodenstock), a cut-off optical filter for infrared and<br />

ultraviolet radiations (from Andover Corporation), and a set of light sources for<br />

professional photography (see Figures 1 and 2).<br />

Fig. 1 – A scheme of the wide-band multispectral acquisition system assembled by the<br />

authors<br />

To operate our system, we first performed a calibration phase in which we<br />

estimated the camera noise by means of acquisitions performed with the lens shut<br />

at different integration times. Based on the results of these trials, we built a<br />

correction mo<strong>del</strong> which is applied to raw acquired images in order to eliminate<br />

noise. We also verified the linearity of the camera sensors response, so that after<br />

noise correction we can apply Equation 5 to our system (barring a multiplying<br />

constant which is subsumed in the characterization mo<strong>del</strong> of equation 6) without<br />

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