Quantitative measurement of the homogeneity and contrast of step edges in the estimation of the point spread function of a satellite image

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 7179-7201

  Chen, Fen ^a   Ma, Jiangl L ^b   Chan, Jonathan C W ^b   Yan, Dong M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c CENTER FOR EARTH OBSERVATION AND DIGITAL EARTH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LOCATION; ORBITS; SATELLITES; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

COMPENSATION METHOD; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION (MTF); OPTIMAL LOCATIONS; QUALITATIVE CRITERIA; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE SENSORS; SPATIAL PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA QUALITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 82055206436     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.519007     Document Type: Article

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