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Ocean salinity plays a vital role in circulation, climate, and marine ecosystems, yet its measurement is often sparse, irregular, and noisy, especially in drifter-based datasets. Traditional approaches, such as remote sensing and optimal…

Atmospheric turbulence is a serious problem for traditional optical imaging, especially for satellite and aircraft-to-ground imaging. Here, we report a novel and practical phenomenon in which turbulence-free images can be reconstructed on a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-10 Deyang Duan , Yunjie Xia

Atmospheric turbulence is the one of the major limiting factors for ground-based astronomical observations. In this paper, the problem of short-term forecasting seeing is discussed. The real data that were obtained by atmospheric optical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-26 Matwey V. Kornilov

Atmospheric turbulence degrades image quality by introducing blur and geometric tilt distortions, posing significant challenges to downstream computer vision tasks. Existing single-image and multi-frame methods struggle with the highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yixing Liu , Minggui Teng , Yifei Xia , Peiqi Duan , Boxin Shi

Heat-induced air turbulence produces complex, depth-dependent image distortions that are challenging to reproduce interactively because thermally driven flow must be coupled with refractive light transport. Existing real-time methods often…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wanqi Yuan , Ethan Chung , Man Luo , Suren Jayasuriya , Huaijin Chen , Jinwei Ye , Nianyi Li

Turbulence mitigation (TM) is highly ill-posed due to the stochastic nature of atmospheric turbulence. Most methods rely on multiple frames recorded by conventional cameras to capture stable patterns in natural scenarios. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiaoran Zhang , Jian Ding , Yuxing Duan , Haoyue Liu , Gang Chen , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

We describe a new model for image propagation through open air in the presence of changes in the index of refraction (e.g. due to turbulence) using the theory of optimal transport. We describe the relationship between photon density, or…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) uses low-coherence reflectometry to obtain cross-sectional images of inhomogeneous media, such as biological tissue. OCT is particularly useful in the biomedical ea, since the imaging can be performed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Takahisa Mitsui , Kenichiro Aoki

This work has been accepted by IEEE TGRS for publication. The majority of optical observations acquired via spaceborne earth imagery are affected by clouds. While there is numerous prior work on reconstructing cloud-covered information,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Patrick Ebel , Andrea Meraner , Michael Schmitt , Xiaoxiang Zhu

With the prospect of the next generation of ground-based telescopes, the extremely large telescopes (ELTs), increasingly complex and demanding adaptive optics (AO) systems are needed. This is to compensate for image distortion caused by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-31 L. Catala , A. Ziad , Y. Fantei-Caujolle , S. M. Crawford , D. A. H. Buckley , J. Borgnino , F. Blary , M. Nickola , T. Pickering

We present a challenging dataset, the TartanAir, for robot navigation tasks and more. The data is collected in photo-realistic simulation environments with the presence of moving objects, changing light and various weather conditions. By…

The Earth's atmosphere is comprised of turbulent layers that result in speckled and blurry images from ground-based visible and infrared observations. Adaptive Optics (AO) systems are employed to measure the perturbed wavefront with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-03 Zhenxi Du , Saavidra Perera , Daniel Levinstein , Quinn Konopacky , Alex Madurowicz , Bruce Macintosh , Lisa Poyneer , Richard Wilson , Ollie Farley

Adaptive optics (AO) is a technology in modern ground-based optical telescopes to compensate the wavefront distortions caused by atmospheric turbulence. One method that allows to retrieve information about the atmosphere from telescope data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Tapio Helin , Stefan Kindermann , Jonatan Lehtonen , Ronny Ramlau

We outline a technique called Dual Plane Imaging which should significantly improve images which would otherwise be blurred due to atmospheric turbulence. The technique involves capturing all the spatial, directional and temporal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-29 Ian Parry , Anna Moore

In this contribution I present results achieved recently in the field of the OT forecast that push further the limit of the accuracy of the OT forecasts and open to new perspectives in this field.

In this paper, we consider the effect of the atmospheric turbulence on the propagation of optical vertex formed from the radial coherent laser beam array, with the initially well-defined phase distribution. The propagation formula of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Li-Gang Wang , Wei-Wei Zheng , Li-Qin Wang

This work presents a rigorous statistical and geometric framework for analyzing turbulence-impacted beam propagation and image topology with results obtained using a PMMA slab. The approach models beam intensity distributions as…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-02 Shouvik Sadhukhan , C. S. Narayanamurthy

Several site-testing programs and observatories currently use combined MASS-DIMM instruments for monitoring parameters of optical turbulence. The instrument is described here. After a short recall of the measured quantities and operational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Kornilov , A. Tokovinin , N. Shatsky , O. Voziakova , S. Potanin , B. Safonov

Satellite imaging has a central role in monitoring, detecting and estimating the intensity of key natural phenomena. One important feature of satellite images is the trade-off between spatial/spectral resolution and their revisiting time, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Haoqing Li , Bhavia Duvviri , Ricardo Borsoi , Tales Imbiriba , Edward Beighley , Deniz Erdogmus , Pau Closas

In this paper we present a new approach to deblur the effect of atmospheric turbulence in the case of long range imaging. Our method is based on an analytical formulation, the Fried kernel, of the atmosphere modulation transfer function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Jerome Gilles , Stanley Osher
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