@inproceedings{7eab29f7694f4520b26bb6bff0985669,
title = "Multiframe blind deconvolution for imaging in daylight and strong turbulence conditions",
abstract = "We describe results from new computational techniques to extend the reach of large ground-based optical telescopes, enabling high resolution imaging of space objects under daylight conditions. Current state-of-the-art systems, even those employing adaptive optics, dramatically underperform in such conditions because of strong turbulence generated by diurnal solar heating of the atmosphere, characterized by a ratio of telescope diameter to Fried parameter as high as 70. Our approach extends previous advances in multi-frame blind deconvolution (MFBD) by exploiting measurements from a wavefront sensor recorded simultaneously with high-cadence image data. We describe early results with the new algorithm which may be used with seeing-limited image data or as an adjunct to partial compensation with adaptive optics to restore imaging to the diffraction limit even under the extreme observing conditions found in daylight.",
keywords = "Multi-frame blind deconvolution, daylight observing",
author = "Michael Hart and Stuart Jefferies and Douglas Hope and Hege, {E. Keith} and Runa Briguglio and Enrico Pinna and Alfio Puglisi and Fernando Quiros and Marco Xompero",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1117/12.896564",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780819487759",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Unconventional Imaging, Wavefront Sensing, and Adaptive Coded Aperture Imaging and Non-Imaging Sensor Systems",
note = "Unconventional Imaging, Wavefront Sensing, and Adaptive Coded Aperture Imaging and Non-Imaging Sensor Systems ; Conference date: 21-08-2011 Through 25-08-2011",
}