SYNTHETIC IMAGING - NONADAPTIVE ANISOPLANATIC IMAGE CORRECTION IN ATMOSPHERIC-TURBULENCE

We introduce a synthetic-imaging technique that can be applied to corr ect anisoplanatic images degraded by atmospheric turbulence. This meth od is based on local image-quality analysis applied to a large set of short-exposure images and can be considered a generalization of the fr ame-selection technique. Experimental results obtained for atmospheric data demonstrate the efficiency of the synthetic-imaging technique in improving image quality.