9.0 Acknowledgements

Jim Janesick of PixelVision Inc.'s Advanced Sensors Division, in collaboration with Taner Dosluoglu and the Advanced Development Group at Scientific Imaging Technologies, Inc., designed the PlutoCCD and Adapt series of CCDs. Mr. Janesick was also responsible for the development of the CCD Transfer Method, as well as the test and characterization of the SandboxIII PlutoCCD CCDs. Tom Elliott of the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory contributed a majority of the PlutoCCD 9-micron CCD Transfer Curve test results. His work is noted where applicable. The testing and optimization of the ADAPTIII CCD were performed by Alice Reinheimer of PixelVision, Inc.’s Commercial Systems Division. The low light level comparisons and images of image intensified and back-illuminated CCD sensors reported in Section 7.0 were performed by John L. Miller and Jim Byars of FLIR Systems, Inc., and Lt. Robert Ireland of the USAF Phillips Laboratories, Kirtland AFB, NM. The authors would like to thank the directors of PixelVision, Inc. and Scientific Imaging Technologies, Inc. for their continued internal funding of advanced imaging technologies. This document was edited by Stacey Easterbrooks, PixelVision, Inc.