Determination of the cloud coverage using ground based camera images in the visible and infrared spectral range

Jeanette Mostafa; Thomas Kociok; Erik Sucher; Karin Stein

doi:10.1117/12.2636706

2 November 2022 Determination of the cloud coverage using ground based camera images in the visible and infrared spectral range

Jeanette Mostafa, Thomas Kociok, Erik Sucher, Karin Stein

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Proceedings Volume 12270, Target and Background Signatures VIII; 122700A (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2636706
Event: SPIE Security + Defence, 2022, Berlin, Germany

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In this study, ground based image sequences of the sky will be evaluated to analyse the cloud coverage. These images are taken in the visual and infrared spectrum. The main ambition is to determine the cloud coverage without the knowledge of additional measurements (like temperature or precipitable water vapor). The determination of the cloud coverage is deduced from camera images only. In the visual spectrum, methods from literature are extended according to this application. For example, the ratio of the color channels red and blue is formed. In the infrared spectral range a method is developed that can distinguish the cloud-covered from the cloudless image areas by using the maximum and minimum occurring values in the image. The grey values are parameterised using statistical boundary values in such a way that a temperature relationship is unambiguously possible and consequently a statement about the degree of coverage can be made by the algorithm. The determination of the cloud coverage reaches a higher accuracy and reliability in the infrared spectral range.

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Jeanette Mostafa, Thomas Kociok, Erik Sucher, and Karin Stein "Determination of the cloud coverage using ground based camera images in the visible and infrared spectral range", Proc. SPIE 12270, Target and Background Signatures VIII, 122700A (2 November 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2636706

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