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Front Matter i-iv
Appendix 1 the Visibility Laboratory Program of Research on Restoration of Atmospherically Degraded Images 1-10
Appendix 2 How Many Pictures Must We Take To Get a Good One 11-14
Appendix 3 an Improved Model Turbulent Atmosphere 15-18
Appendix 4 on the Mean Short-term Blur 19-25
Appendix 5 Correlation Functions for Optical Transfer Functions 26-30
Appendix 6 Suggested Atmospheric Experiments Relating To Image Restoration 31-34
Appendix 7 an Interferometric Method for Measuring the Average Effective Transfer Function of the Atmosphere 35-38
Appendix 8 a Method for Measuring the Short-term Optical Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence 39-41
Appendix 9 Atmospheric Effects on Images a Phenomenological Approach 42-44
Appendix 10 Visual Observations of Several Satellites at the Afal Cloudcroft Electro-optical Surveillance Research Facility 45-49
Appendix 11 Photography of Satellites Some Notes on Optimum Image Size and Density 50-60
Appendix 12 on Statistical Estimation of Incoherently Illuminated Objects 61-83
Appendix 13 on Linear Least-squares Filtering of Distorted Photographs 84-95
Appendix 14 Some Notes on Film Grain Noise 96-100
Appendix 15 Image Analysis With the Isodensitracer 101-108
Appendix 16 Dynamic Range of Brightness of Satellites Illuminated by the Sun 109-111
Appendix 17 Linearity and Dynamic Range of Films 112-116
Appendix 18 Some Fundamental Aspects of Film Scanning 117-123
Appendix 19 Some Considerations With Respect To the Design of Scanning Mechanisms for Restoration of Photographic Images 124-126
Appendix 20 a Conceptual Design for an Image Space Scanner for Image Processing 127-133
Appendix 21 Photoelectric Arrays or Equivalents 134-137
Appendix 22 Digital Fourier Analysis 138-151
Appendix 23 Two-dimensional Convolution With a Separable Kernel 152-154
Appendix 24 Complex Spatial Filters for Optical Systems 155-157
Appendix 25 Optical Frequency Plane Scale Search 158-159
Appendix 26 Photographic Linearity in Coherent Optical Systems 160-162
Appendix 27 Linearity and Dynamic Range in Coherent Processing 163-164
Appendix 28 Comparison and Possible Coupling of Coherent Optical and Digital Computer Processing Techniques for Restoring Degraded Imagery 165-170
Appendix 29 Analysis of Wavefront-reconstruction Imaging Through Random Media 171-185
Appendix 30 Diffraction Effects in Wavefront-reconstruction Imaging 186-193
Appendix 31 Airborne Retroreflectors for Holographic Techniques 194-195
Appendix 32 Removal of Multiple Reconstructed Images Due To Multiple Reference Sources in Wavefront Reconstruction 196-200
Appendix 33 Aberrations in Wavefront-reconstruction Imaging Caused by the Optics and the Detector 201-212
Appendix 34 the Generation of Contours on Images 213-217
Appendix 35 a Doppler Spread Imaging System 218-225
Appendix 36 Alternative Satellite Observation Scheme 226-227
Appendix 37 Notes on the Gregory Real-time Sampling Technique for Minimizing Image Disturbance 228-232

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Restoration of Atmospherically Degraded Images Volume 2: Woods Hole Summer Study, July 1966. (1967)

Chapter: Appendix 2 How Many Pictures Must We Take To Get a Good One

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Restoration of Atmospherically Degraded Images Volume 2: Woods Hole Summer Study, July 1966. (1967)

Chapter: Appendix 2 How Many Pictures Must We Take To Get a Good One