HIGH-SPEED DIVERSITY-BASED IMAGING METHOD FOR PARALLEL ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE COMPENSATION

An imaging method providing atmospheric turbulence compensation includes capturing a subject image pair. Data corresponding to the captured subject image pair is loaded into memory associated with a parallel processing device. A 2-D Fast Fourier Transform is performed on the stored image data and the transformed image data is stored. An optical transfer function is developed for the transformed image data. The optical transfer function is inverted and applied to the transformed image data to generate corrected image spectrum data that is compensated for atmospheric aberrations. An Inverse Fast Fourier Transform is applied to the corrected image spectrum data to produce corrected image data. The corrected image data is stored.