4

Filters, Kernels, and Fields

This chapter is somewhat of a catch-all, intended mainly to consolidate and extend material presented in the preceding chapters and to help lay the foundation for the rest of the book. In Sections 4.1 and 4.2, building on the discrete Fourier transform introduced in Chapter 3, the concept of discrete convolution is introduced and filtering, both in the spatial and in the frequency domain, is discussed. Frequent reference to filtering will be made in Chapter 5 when we treat enhancement and geometric and radiometric correction of visual/infrared and SAR imagery. In Section 4.3 it is shown that the discrete wavelet transform of Chapter 3 is equivalent to a recursive application of low- and high-pass filters (a filter ...

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