Monte Carlo simulation of the atmospheric point-spread function with an application to correction for the adjacency effect

Applied Optics

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 1995, Pages 4453-4471

  Reinersman, Phillip N ^a   Carder, Kendall L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

ADJACENCY EFFECT; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; AIRBORNE VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING SPECTROMETER; CORRECTION ALGORITHMS; HIGH-CONTRAST IMAGES; LAMBERTIAN SURFACES; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; VERTICALLY STRATIFIED;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 0001452150     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.34.004453     Document Type: Article

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