Wide Angle Infrared Cloud Imaging for Measuring Cloud Statistics

• Main Authors: Paul W. Nugent, Joseph A. Shaw, Sabino Piazzolla
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Optical Communication; Thermal Imaging; Cloud Cover Statistics; Infrared Cloud Imaging; Arctic; Table Mountain
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.526.9878; http://www.coe.montana.edu/ee/jshaw/publications/WideAngleICI_OpticalComm_SPIE(SD)2007.pdf

Previous research at Montana State University led to the development of the Infrared Cloud Imager (ICI) for measuring downwelling cloud and sky thermal emission for producing cloud coverage statistics using radiometrically calibrated images of the sky. This technique, that was developed primarily fo...