Abstract

Shift-and-add (SAA) is a simple image processing procedure. SAA was devised to reconstruct a diffraction-limited image from atmospherically degraded stellar images. Recently SAA has been applied to biological imaging. There are several variants of SAA. Here proposed is an SAA procedure incorporated with unsharp masking (USM). The SAA procedure proposed here encompasses an extended version of USM. The proposed SAA method retains the simplicity and easiness, and the basic features of SAA. The effectiveness of the proposed method is examined by restoring atmospherically degraded solar images. It is shown that the USM SAA reconstructed image exhibits high contrast and reveals fine structures blurred by atmospheric turbulence. It is also shown that the USM SAA performs better with a data frame selection scheme.

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