Title

Perceptual Image Quality And Telescope Performance Ranking

Keywords

Image simulation; Metric; MTF; Perceptual image quality; Telescope

Abstract

Launch Vehicle Imaging Telescopes (LVIT) are expensive, high quality devices intended for improving the safety of vehicle personnel, ground support, civilians, and physical assets during launch activities. If allowed to degrade from the combination of wear, environmental factors, and ineffective or inadequate maintenance, these devices lose their ability to provide adequate quality imagery to analysts to prevent catastrophic events such as the NASA Space Shuttle, Challenger, accident in 1986 and the Columbia disaster of 2003. A software tool incorporating aberrations and diffraction that was developed for maintenance evaluation and modeling of telescope imagery is presented. This tool provides MTF-based image quality metric outputs which are correlated to ascent imagery analysts' perception of image quality, allowing a prediction of usefulness of imagery which would be produced by a telescope under different simulated conditions. © 2010 SPIE.

Publication Date

10-28-2010

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

7786

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.862833

Socpus ID

77958176113 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77958176113

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