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TAKE THE QUIZapodization
noun
ap·o·di·za·tion
ˌa-pə-də-ˈzā-shən
-ˌdī-ˈzā-
electrical engineering
: the process of altering a signal (such as one emitted by an electrical sensor) to make its mathematical description smoother and more easily manipulatable
apodize
transitive verb
apodizes; apodized; apodizing
Amplitude and phase errors tend to increase at high spatial frequencies, so we weighted the data with a function that is 1 at a frequency of 0 and falls to 0 at a spatial frequency of 2.8 cycles per arc second. A similar function was used to apodize the visibilities before reconstructing the images.
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R. R. Howell et al., Science, 4 Oct. 1985
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