Aerosol light scatter vs turbulence effects in image blur

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3219, Issue , 1998, Pages 44-51

  Kopeika, N S ^a   Sadot, D ^a   Dror, I ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Atmospheric optics; Image restoration; Imaging; Light scatter; Modulation transfer function; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERICS; EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTIONS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT; MODELS; MODULATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RESTORATION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TURBULENCE;

AEROSOL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; IMAGE BLURS; IMAGE RESTORATION; IMAGING; INNER SCALES; LIGHT SCATTER; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; SYSTEM ENGINEERINGS; TURBULENCE EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 57649234286     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.298066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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