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How atmospheric haze affects the efficiency of wide-angle airborne television cameras when ground objects are being observed

Ovsyannikov, V.A., Ovsyannikov, Y.V., Filippov, V.L.

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Овсянников В.А., Овсянников Я.В., Филиппов В.Л. Влияние атмосферной дымки на эффективность широкопольных телекамер воздушного базирования при наблюдении наземных объектов // Оптический журнал. 2017. Т. 84. № 3. С. 28–34.

Ovsyannikov V.A., Ovsyannikov Ya.V., Filippov V.L. How atmospheric haze affects the efficiency of wide-angle airborne television cameras when ground objects are being observed [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2017. V. 84. № 3. P. 28–34.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

V. A. Ovsyannikov, Ya. V. Ovsyannikov, and V. L. Filippov, "How atmospheric haze affects the efficiency of wide-angle airborne television cameras when ground objects are being observed," Journal of Optical Technology. 84(3), 179-184 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.84.000179

Abstract:

An engineering technique is proposed for predicting how atmospheric haze reduces the image contrast of ground objects observed under daytime conditions using a wide-angle forward-viewing television camera when the objects lie close to the upper edge of the camera’s field of view when this contrast is optimized for objects located close to the lower limit of its field of view. Suitable estimates are calculated for typical radiance factors of the objects and the ambient background and a typical field of view of the camera, thereby optimizing the choice of the angle of deviation of the camera axis from the horizontal.

Keywords:

television camera, image contrast, atmospheric haze

OCIS codes: 010.7295

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