A procedure for high resolution satellite imagery quality assessment

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3289-3313

  Crespi, Mattia ^a   de Vendictis, Laura ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b TELESPAZIO S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actual resolution; High resolution satellite imagery quality; Modulation transfer function; Noise; Radiometric analysis

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRIC RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGERY; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; IMAGE QUALITY PARAMETERS; NOISE; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RADIOMETRIC ANALYSIS; RADIOMETRIC RESOLUTION;

IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MODULATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RADIOMETRY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 77449127524     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90503289     Document Type: Article

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