Correlation length used as a predictor of fundamental scale lengths for image characterization

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 786-793

  Hilgers, John W ^b   Reynolds, William R ^a,b   Strang, David E ^b   McManamey, James R ^c  

^a SPIE ^*

^b Signature Research Inc   (United States)

^c STRBE JDR   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation length; Fixed point procedures; Length scale; Polynomial regression models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001181684     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600648     Document Type: Article

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