ANALYSIS AND TRADE-OFF STUDY OF SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO DEPENDENT DESIGN PARAMETERS OF SATELLITE PASSIVE ELECTRO-OPTICAL REMOTE SENSORS

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Egyptian Armed Forces.

2 Banha High Technology Institute, Banha, Egypt.

3 National Laser Institute, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.

Abstract

One of the main goals that is concerned to remote sensor designers is the quality of the produced image. There are a number of parameters to evaluate the quality of the image produced by an imaging sensor. The parameters widely used are the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF) and signal-to-noise ratio (S/N), for passive electro-optical remote sensors. In this paper an analysis and trade-off study of S/N dependent sensor design parameters are presented.

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