Comparing experiments of digital photography visiometer

XingSheng Xie; ShangChang Tao; XiuJi Zhou

doi:10.1117/12.317726

18 August 1998 Comparing experiments of digital photography visiometer

XingSheng Xie, ShangChang Tao, XiuJi Zhou

Proceedings Volume 3501, Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Clouds; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.317726
Event: Asia-Pacific Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Environment, and Space, 1998, Beijing, China

Abstract

This paper reports a digital photography visiometer (DPV), an automatic digital photography visibility system, that can directly measure and monitor horizontal visibility during daytime through digital shooting. After shooting a scene of given black object and background via its CCD digital camera, the system can capture and transfer photographic images in the camera to a computer, as well as process the digital images and calculate the value of visibility. The formulas for calculating visibility with this method and analyzing the effect of non-black object on measured result are also given. And then the comparison of DPV observations with a lidar-visibility measurements and visual observations are carried out. The results show that the average deviation and relative average deviation of visibility acquired by DPV from lidar-visibility measurements are respectively within 0.927 km (and 0.26 km) and 6.68 percent (and 7.99 percent).

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XingSheng Xie, ShangChang Tao, and XiuJi Zhou "Comparing experiments of digital photography visiometer", Proc. SPIE 3501, Optical Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Clouds, (18 August 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.317726

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