Anisoplanatic imaging through turbulent media: Image recovery by local information fusion from a set of short-exposure images

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1312-1324

  Vorontsov, Mikhail A ^a   Carhart, Gary W ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTIMIZATION; TURBULENCE;

IMAGE RECOVERY;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0037779988     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.001312     Document Type: Article

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