One of the on-board tasks is going to be target detection, but in order to be able to detect features or targets in the acquired images, it is beneficial to have images with a spatial resolution as high as possible. If the resolution is low, the task of differentiating between objects becomes hard. Higher spatial resolution can be achieved by doing on-board processing of images. One of the possible methods is deconvolution algorithms, which are based on an inverse convolution.

The image to the left is an image as observed, it is blurry and has low resolution. The image to the right is the same image after deconvolution.

Written by Karine Avagian