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Restoring Atmospherically Degraded Images

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How is it possible to extract the most information from optical images degraded by the passage of light through the atmosphere ? This was the subject of the Woods Hole Summer Study on the Restoration of Atmospherically Degraded Images held at the Summer Studies Centre of the National Academy of Sciences between June 27 and July 22, 1966. The director of the study has singled out some of the principal themes and conclusions.

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MORGAN, S. Restoring Atmospherically Degraded Images. Nature 213, 965–966 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213965a0

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