The following commit has been merged in the master branch: commit 0add7bc664ced3089f46d1d47c06520f31fe83f6 Author: Antonio Valentino <antonio.valent...@tiscali.it> Date: Tue Dec 28 11:04:44 2010 +0100
Improved package description diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 7244206..6c4b660 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -10,29 +10,32 @@ Homepage: http://www-star.stanford.edu/sar_group/snaphu Package: snaphu Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} -Description: Statistical-Cost, Netowrk-Flow Algorithm for Phase Unwrapping +Description: Statistical-Cost, Netowrk-Flow Algorithm for 2D Phase Unwrapping Two-dimensional phase unwrapping is the process of recovering unambiguous phase data from a 2-D array of phase values known only modulo 2pi rad. . + There are many applications, like Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), + Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), fringe pattern analysis, tomography + and spectroscopy, which as part of their fundamental operation depend + upon the extraction of a phase signal from their input image. Usually + the phase is available in a form that suffers from 2-pi phase jumps + due to the use of the mathematical arctangent function, which produces + an inherently wrapped output. This wrapped phase is unusable until the + phase discontinuities are removed. + . SNAPHU is an implementation of the Statistical-cost, Network-flow - Algorithm for Phase Unwrapping proposed by Chen and Zebker. This - algorithm poses phase unwrapping as a maximum a posteriori probability - (MAP) estimation problem, the objective of which is to compute the most - likely unwrapped solution given the observable input data. Because the - statistics relating the input data to the solution depend on the - measured quantity, SNAPHU incorporates three built-in statistical - models, for topography data, deformation data, and smooth generic data. - The posed optimization problem is solved approximately with use of - network-flow techniques. + Algorithm for Phase Unwrapping particularly suitable for SAR + interferometry applications. This algorithm poses phase unwrapping as + a maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) estimation problem, the + objective of which is to compute the most likely unwrapped solution + given the observable input data. Because the statistics relating the + input data to the solution depend on the measured quantity, SNAPHU + incorporates three built-in statistical models, for topography data, + deformation data, and smooth generic data. The posed optimization + problem is solved approximately with use of network-flow techniques. . - SNAPHU always produces complete unwrapped solutions, and its accuracy - is comparable to or better than that of other available algorithms. As SNAPHU uses an iterative optimization procedure, its execution time depends on the difficulty of the interferogram. In single-tile mode the required memory is on the order of 100 MB per 1,000,000 pixels in the input interferogram. - . - The software is written in C and should run on most Unix/Linux - platforms. It is freely available to the public, subject to the - conditions outlined in the README file included with the distribution. -- Statistical-Cost, Netowrk-Flow Algorithm for Phase Unwrapping _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list Pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel