New atmospheric visibility optical sensor based on correlation coding method

Tomasz Czarnecki; Grzegorz Wilczewski; Krzysztof Perlicki

doi:10.1117/12.2075088

16 December 2014 New atmospheric visibility optical sensor based on correlation coding method

Tomasz Czarnecki, Grzegorz Wilczewski, Krzysztof Perlicki

Proceedings Volume 9290, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2014; 92900I (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2075088
Event: Symposium on Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry and High-Energy Physics Experiments, 2014, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

In this article a new atmospheric visibility sensor design is presented. It employs an empirical link between acquired lidar backscattered signals and atmospheric visibility parameter. In particular, received backscattered beam is under the autocorrelation analysis within the defined correlation distance, thus the outcome of this procedure presents the overall characteristic of the correlation coefficients, as a function of examined space range. Specifically, significant points of interest of this characteristic are then extracted and processed in order to evaluate the atmospheric visibility parameter. In various experimental demo campaigns, under varying weather conditions, performance of the designed device was assessed. It is reported, the approximate range of reliable atmospheric visibility parameter evaluation falls into the interval of 100 to 1400 m.

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Tomasz Czarnecki, Grzegorz Wilczewski, and Krzysztof Perlicki "New atmospheric visibility optical sensor based on correlation coding method", Proc. SPIE 9290, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2014, 92900I (16 December 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2075088

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