Resolution

  • The ability of device to show the image clearly with lot of details.
  • It defines the quality to be determine or resolute.


Different Measurement Resolution:
  • Display resolution
  • Audio resolution
  • Optical resolution
  • Angular resolution
  • Spectral resolution
  • Sensor resolution
  • Spectrometer resolution
  • Image resolution
From that resolutions now we discuss the Image resolution.

Image Resolution:

  • It defines the sharpness and clarity of an image.
  • It applies to the digital images, film images and other type of images.
  • Higher the resolution means more image clarity.


Resolution of Digital Images:
  • The resolution of digital cameras can be described in many different ways.
               1. Pixel resolution
               2. Spatial resolution
               3. Spectral resolution
               4. Temporal resolution
               5. Radiometric resolution
1. Pixel Resolution:
  • It refers the total number of pixels in an image.
  • Pixel resolution mainly depends on two factors.
  • One is width of picture and two is height of picture.
  • Higher the pixel resolution then higher the quality of the image.
Megapixels:
  • We can calculate megapixels of camera.
              Width * Height/1 Million
  • The size of image can be calculated.
             Size = Pixel resolution * Bits per pixels

Calculating megapixel of an camera:

Lets say we have an image of dimension: 2500 X 3192.
Its pixel resolution = 2500 * 3192 = 7982350 bytes.
Dividing it by 1 million = 7.9 = 8 mega pixel (approximately).


2. Spatial Resolution:
  • It defines number of independent pixels values per inch
  • The clarity of the image is decided by its Spatial resolution, not the number of pixels in a image.


Measuring Spatial resolution:
   Dots per inch:  It is usually used in Monitors.
   Lines per inch:  It is usually used in Laser Printers.
   Pixel per inch:  It is usually used in Tablets, Mobiles.

3. Spectral Resolution:

  • It is the ability to resolve spectral features and bands into their separate components.
  • Multi-spectral images have higher spectral resolution than normal color images.


4. Temporal Resolution:
  • It refers to the precision of measurement with respect to time.
  • A standard video camera records 30 frames per second.
  • High-speed video camera records 10000 frames per second. 


5. Radiometric Resolution:
  • It refers the the number of divisions of bit depth in data collected by a sensor.
          Ex:  255 for 8 bit, 65536 for 16 bit.....etc
  • Radiometric resolution of sensor is more sensitive it is to detecting small differences in reflected or emitted energy.


Advantages:
  • We can remove the unwanted objects then get clear image.
  • Look quality image.
Disadvantages:
  • It takes more memory.
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