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An automatic MTF measurement method for remote sensing cameras

TIANHUI WANG1,* , SHENGYANG LI2, XUZHI LI2

Affiliation

  1. Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
  2. Academy of Optoelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

Abstract

The modulation transfer function (MTF) for remote sensing imaging sensors sometimes need be automatically measured both in order to fast calibrate them for best performance while working on board and to do (near) real-time digital compensation for inevitable degradation. In this paper, we presented such an automatic MTF measurement approach. It is based on the detection of straight lines with Hough transforms. Once qualified lines are determined, the MTF is estimated by a step edge method. Experiments with IKONOS images showed the proposed technique has a high success rate for automatically measuring the MTF with an acceptable accuracy.

Keywords

MTF measurement, Optical imaging sensors, Straight line detection.

Citation

TIANHUI WANG, SHENGYANG LI, XUZHI LI, An automatic MTF measurement method for remote sensing cameras, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 3, 7, July 2009, pp.650-654 (2009).

Submitted at: June 28, 2009

Accepted at: July 20, 2009