Thick Aberrator Compensation In Post-Detection Image Correction

The main theme of the Phase I effort will be to attempt to answer the basic question: What is the amount of detail (or resolution) that can be recovered from the degraded signal (i.e., diffraction image) given partial knowledge of the turbulence indiced spatially random wavefront Ws? In order to answer this basic question, we propose a three-pronged attach: (1) development of methods in the context of wave propagation to predict the variance and correlation function of wavefront propagagint in a turbulent atmosphere for both vertical up-look and horizontal look sight paths; (2) reprogram the Barakat/Beletic algorithm for generating sample realizations of diffractin functions using information from item (1) and further develop the algorithm to include sample realizations of extended objects; (3) Institute investigatin of effacy of various post-detection image restoration techniques and test them using the above algorithm.