An automatic digital photography visibility system (DPVS) is presented, which can directly measure and monitor horizontal visibility during daytime through digital shooting. After shooting a scene of given black objec...An automatic digital photography visibility system (DPVS) is presented, which can directly measure and monitor horizontal visibility during daytime through digital shooting. After shooting a scene of given black object and background via its CCD digital camera, the system can capture and transfer photographic images in the camera to a computer, as well as process the digital images and calculate the value of visibility. The formulas for calculating visibility with this method and analysing the effect of non-black object on measured results have also been derived . And then the comparison of DPVS observations with a Lidar-visibility measurements has been carried out. The results show that the average deviation and relative average deviation of visibility acquired by DPVS from lidar-visibility measurements are respectively within 0.927 km and 6.68%.展开更多
文摘An automatic digital photography visibility system (DPVS) is presented, which can directly measure and monitor horizontal visibility during daytime through digital shooting. After shooting a scene of given black object and background via its CCD digital camera, the system can capture and transfer photographic images in the camera to a computer, as well as process the digital images and calculate the value of visibility. The formulas for calculating visibility with this method and analysing the effect of non-black object on measured results have also been derived . And then the comparison of DPVS observations with a Lidar-visibility measurements has been carried out. The results show that the average deviation and relative average deviation of visibility acquired by DPVS from lidar-visibility measurements are respectively within 0.927 km and 6.68%.