Polarized Downwelling Radiance Distribution Camera System

Abstract

The major objective of this research was to build a camera system to measure the downwelling spectral polarized radiance distribution, in the near surface of the ocean. In this project we had to design and build a new polarization imaging camera system. This instrument follows in the footsteps of other instruments we have developed (Voss and Liu, 1997) and uses a combination of 3-4 images of the radiance distribution to form this polarized radiance distribution. Because the downwelling radiance distribution is very dynamic, the system needed to quickly make these images and have them as matched as possible required a completely new design.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA516872

Entities

People

  • Kenneth Voss

Organizations

  • University of Miami

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Calibration
  • Cameras
  • Circular Polarization
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Field Tests
  • Intensity
  • Light Scattering
  • Measurement
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Physics
  • Polarization
  • Pressure Transducers
  • Radiance
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Shallow Water
  • Upwelling

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics