Spatial Resolution Improvement of SSM/I Data with Image Restoration Techniques

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 1144-1151

  Sethmann, Richard ^a   Burns, Barbara A ^b   Heygster, Georg C ^b  

^a OHB SYSTEM AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

deconvolution; resolution improvement; Restoration; SSM I

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

DECONVOLUTION; SPACE VARIANT POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER DATA;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0028539985     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.338362     Document Type: Article

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