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Re: FFT with NANs in an array [message #49440 is a reply to message #49342]

Thu, 20 July 2006 12:42

Steve Eddins
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Registered: July 2001

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adisn123@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to fourier transform a spacial domain image to frequency
> domain using FFT function in IDL.
>
> My image has quite a bit of NANs in an array, about 5%.
>
> When I use FFT into the image, it doesn't give me any errors, but when
> I inversely fourier transform after
>
> filtering, it gives a little funky result.

I would have expected you to get a VERY funky result. Since every
output element of an FFT depends on every input element, I'd expect
every output element of your result to be NaN.

> How do I make FFT ignore NANs in their job or filtering?

I think you'll need to explicitly replace the NaNs with 0s, like this:

A(isnan(A)) = 0;

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		FFT with NANs in an array By: adisn123 on Thu, 20 July 2006 11:00
		Re: FFT with NANs in an array By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 20 July 2006 19:48
		Re: FFT with NANs in an array By: adisn123 on Thu, 20 July 2006 17:08
		Re: FFT with NANs in an array By: Steve Eddins on Thu, 20 July 2006 12:44
		Re: FFT with NANs in an array By: Steve Eddins on Thu, 20 July 2006 12:42
		Re: FFT with NANs in an array By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 20 July 2006 12:24
		Re: FFT with NANs in an array By: R on Wed, 26 July 2006 15:47

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