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Dealiasing versus antialiasing

It is apparent from the number of interpolation algorithms that people have invented that aliasing is an old problem, and so naturally many previous authors have used terms like ``dealias'' and ``antialias,'' with slightly different connotations. In this thesis, I follow the examples of numerous SEP alumni (and others), and use the term ``antialias'' to refer to methods which remove aliasing without changing sampling rates, by lowpass filtering the data in some manner Claerbout (1992a); Lumley et al. (1994). I use the term ``dealias'' to refer to methods which maintain frequency and change sampling, by inventing some hypothetical data to represent or supplement the original Manin and Spitz (1995); Nichols (1992); Ronen (1990). This seems as good a convention as any, though counter examples can be turned up Beasley and Mobley (1998). Finally, where data are said to be unaliased, I simply mean that in their original state, without any particular sort of manipulation, the data are not aliased.


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1/18/2001