Synthetic Image Generation of Factory Stack and Water Cooling Tower Plumes

Abstract

Remote sensing of cooling tower and factory stack plumes may provide unique information on the constituents of the plume. Potential information of the power generated by the plant or the chemical composition of the factory products may be gathered from thermal emission and absorption in the infrared band, or from scattering of light in the visible band. A new model for generating synthetic images of plumes has been developed using DIRSIG, a radiometrically based ray-tracing code. Existing models that determine the characteristics of the plume (constituents, concentration, particulate sizing, and temperature) are used to construct the plume in DIRSIG.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA329366

Entities

People

  • S. D. Kuo

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Atmospheric Attenuation
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programs
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Differential Equations
  • Electromagnetic Metamaterials
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Metamaterial Absorbers
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Refraction
  • Scattering
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Computer Vision.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.