A quantitative assessment of resampling errors

Abstract

Applications associated with digital geographic imagery are subject to great diversity in required cell size, cartographic projection, etc. The need for resampling remote sensing scaner data is evident in all but the most undemanding cases. It is shown that proper resampling of such data is dependent in important ways on the detailed knowledge of the original scanner's effective point-spread function and to the desired point-spread function of resampled data. When both of these are known, it is relatively straightforward to compute the resampling coefficients which do the best job of approximating the shape and position of the synthesized point-spread function. The resulting synthesized psf are compared with an ideal psf located at various interpixel positions and any differences observed as errors.