Table of Contents

Copyright

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Background

• 2.1 Remote Sensing and The image Chain
• 2.2 Synthetic Image Generation
• 2.3 Analyzing the Image Chain
• 2.4 The Sensor System
• 2.5 The Optical System
• 2.6 Detectors
• 2.7 Noise

• 3.1 Noise
• 3.2 The Optical Effects
• 3.3 Detector MTF
• 3.4 Charge Transfer Efficiency
• 3.5 Electrical/Detector Noise

• 4.1 Poisson Methods and Results
• 4.2 Aperture Functions and Exit Pupil MTF's
• 4.3 Detector MTF
• 4.4 Charge Transfer Efficiency MTF and PTF
• 4.5 Detector and Electronic Noise

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