Influence of sampling on target recognition and identification

Optical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 763-772

  Vollmerhausen, Richard ^a   Driggers, Ronald G ^a   O'Kane, Barbara L ^a  

^a U S ARMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SENSORS; PATTERN MATCHING; SAMPLING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ELECTRO-OPTICAL SENSOR MODELING; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION (MTF) SQUEEZE MODEL; OUT-OF-BAND ALIASING; SAMPLED IMAGING SYSTEMS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0032686009     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602043     Document Type: Article

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