Feasibility Studies of Optical Processing of Image Bandwidth Compression Schemes

摘要

The two research activities are included as two separate divisions of this research report. The research activities are as follows: 1. Adaptive Recursive Interpolated DPCM for image data compression (ARIDPCM). A consistent theme in the search supported under Grant Number AFOSR under Grant AFOSR-81-0170 has been novel methods of image data compression that are suitable for implementation by optical processing. Initial investigation led to the IDPCM method of image data compression. 2. Deblurring images through turbulent atmosphere. A common problem in astronomy is the imaging of astronomical fluctuations of the atmosphere. The microscale fluctuations limit the resolution of any object by ground-based telescope, the phenomenon of stars twinkling being the most commonly observed form of this degradation. This problem also has military significance in limiting the ground-based observation of satellites in earth orbit. As concerns about SDI arise, the observation of Soviet Satellites becomes more important, and this observation is limited by atmospheric turbulence.