Imaging System Performance and Visibility as Affected by the Physical Environment

Abstract

The long-term goal of Imaging System Performance and Visibility as Affected by the Physical Environment is to investigate the relationships between physical forcing and optical properties, including the imaging performance parameters. Our efforts are aimed at supporting the Radiance in a Dynamic Ocean (RaDyO) program, which is devoted to the topic of light propagation and imaging across the air-sea interface and within the surface boundary layer of natural water bodies. The primary goals of the RaDyO program are to: 1) Examine time-dependent oceanic radiance distribution in relation to dynamic surface boundary layer (SBL) processes; 2) Construct a radiance-based SBL model; 3) Validate the model with field observations; and 4) Investigate the feasibility of inverting the model to yield SBL conditions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2011
Accession Number
ADA557143

Entities

People

  • Grace Chang

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attenuation
  • Backscattering
  • Bessel Functions
  • Data Processing
  • Environment
  • Forward Scattering
  • Image Processing
  • Measurement
  • Optical Properties
  • Particle Size
  • Particles
  • Physical Properties
  • Refraction
  • Refractive Index
  • Scattering
  • Visibility
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Educational Psychology