Statistical comparison of measured obscurant cloud images and radiative transfer model output

Dorothy Bruce; John C. Giever

doi:10.1117/12.151050

13 August 1993 Statistical comparison of measured obscurant cloud images and radiative transfer model output

Dorothy Bruce, John C. Giever

Proceedings Volume 1967, Characterization, Propagation, and Simulation of Sources and Backgrounds III; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.151050
Event: Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1993, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Image statistics of measured and modeled cloud radiance are compared to evaluate the nature of radiance fluctuations. Images of aerosol and particulate clouds were obtained with the Atmospheric Transmission Large Area System (ATLAS). Radiative transfer model calculations were made for multiple scattering and emission in spatially inhomogeneous clouds of aerosols/particulates. Effects of spatial and time fluctuations, which are often neglected, are important because they may induce changes in background contrast and they affect the acceptability of simulated scenes.

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Dorothy Bruce and John C. Giever "Statistical comparison of measured obscurant cloud images and radiative transfer model output", Proc. SPIE 1967, Characterization, Propagation, and Simulation of Sources and Backgrounds III, (13 August 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.151050

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