In particular, we will turn our attention to the hands-on radiometry labs we have designed over the years. Thus, this paper will discuss how we approach the dissemination of information related to the field of radiometry to our Imaging Science students, regardless of their area of research. This course is paramount in Imaging Science since it teaches all the important, necessary, vernacular used in subsequent courses. In particular, radiometry is considered one of the “core” courses in the program and is taught very early in the undergraduate and graduate curriculums. A sampling of courses taught (in no order) include those heavy in imaging systems, vision, color science, linear systems, optics, interaction with light and matter, computer vision, detectors, noise, image processing, radiative transfer, and radiometry. 1 This includes domain areas such as remote sensing and satellite systems, human vision perception, optics, computer vision, astronomy and space science, nanoimaging and materials, detector research and imaging of cultural artifacts.Ī major, as interdisciplinary as this one, requires students with proficient skills in math, physics, and computer programming. From how light is generated to how the world is perceived, Imaging Science addresses questions about every aspect of systems that are used to create, perceive, analyze, and optimize images. The program is very interdisciplinary and involves study and research in all aspects of imaging. Carson Center for Imaging Science (CIS) is a research and education Center with in the College of Science (COS) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) which offers BS, MS and PhD degrees in Imaging Science. This paper will discuss our approach to the dissemination of “practical' radiometry through exercises that talk about construction of radiometers, inverse square law, radiometric and spectral calibration (of a spectrometer), diffraction gratings, blackbodies and sources, spectral transmission and reflectance measurements, detector spectral responsivity measurements, transfer calibration, and more. At the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), an entire course has been devoted to the subject along with a dozen or so hands-on laboratory exercises. Over the years there have been various texts on the subject to help demystify some of these concepts with less emphasis on “practical' radiometry (i.e., meaning laboratory examples). It has evolved separately in the fields of physics, illumination or vision, and engineering, and as a result a host of terms are used to describe various radiometric concepts.

It involves the measurement and quantification of optical flux. Radiometry is formally defined as the science of characterizing or measuring how much electromagnetic energy is present at, or associated with, some location or direction in space.

Radiometer point measure