Adaptive multiscale estimation for fusing image data
K.C. Slatton · 2001
to my wife and my parents with love Acknowledgments I have a long list of people to thank for the support and guidance. First, I want to thank my parents William N. Slatton and Linda Matros. They inspired me to pursue an education and supported me in many ways during that education. They were by far my most important influences during the first twenty years of my life. I also must thank my wonderful wife Jennifer for giving her love and sup-port. It was not easy to be married to a graduate student. She sacrificed her standard of living and more importantly her time with me while I remained in school. She also brought a glorious new life, our son William H. Slatton, into the world during this time. For all of this, I will always be grateful and in awe of her. I wish to thank my advisors, Prof. Melba M. Crawford and Prof. Brian L. Evans. Without their insightful guidance and words of encouragement this disser-tation would never have been realized. I also wish to thank other people that have served as teacher to me at differ-ent stages in my graduate education. Dr. Yunjin Kim was extremely generous with his time and helped me refine my research topic, which eventually led to my receiv-ing a National Aeronautics and Space Administration Graduate Research Program Fellowship. Dr. Robert Treuhaft was also giving of his time when I struggled to understand certain radar scattering problems.