Short-exposure Turbulent Tilt-phase Frequency Dependence in Passive Imaging

Abstract

In a previous paper, short-exposure imaging through atmospheric turbulence was shown to include a non-negligible tilt-phase effect. This effect was modeled as a modifying factor, exp[A(X,Q)w2], dependent on a normalized angular frequency, w, and a function A dependent on non-dimensional turbulence (X) and diffraction (Q) related parameters. The present paper describes a subsequent analysis performed at high Aw2 values that has revealed an additional moderate w dependence in A. The new functionality of A(X,Q,w) produces diffraction limited behavior at high frequency, but increases the amount of correction of short-exposure turbulence effects at intermediate frequencies. The resulting behavior is parameterized through a new series of analytic expressions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA573281

Entities

People

  • David H. Tofsted

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Angle Of Arrival
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Boundary Layer
  • Coefficients
  • Computations
  • Data Sets
  • Diffraction
  • Equations
  • Errors
  • Far Field
  • Frequency
  • Geometry
  • Intermediate Frequencies
  • Military Research
  • Near Field
  • Turbulence
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.