FY-3D Sent Back First Visible Light Images

China successfully launched FY-3D by a LM-4C carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center at 02：35 Beijing time on November 15.The mission also carried the HEAD-1experiment satellite which was developed by SAST.The LM-4C carrier rocket was developed by SAST.22 technological improvements were made for this launch mission to meet the satellite’s requirement and improve the flight reliability.So far,

Deep learning-assisted common temperature measurement based on visible light imaging

Real-time,contact-free temperature monitoring of low to medium range(30℃-150℃)has been extensively used in industry and agriculture,which is usually realized by costly infrared temperature detection methods.This paper proposes an alternative approach of extracting temperature information in real time from the visible light images of the monitoring target using a convolutional neural network(CNN).A mean-square error of<1.119℃was reached in the temperature measurements of low to medium range using the CNN and the visible light images.Imaging angle and imaging distance do not affect the temperature detection using visible optical images by the CNN.Moreover,the CNN has a certain illuminance generalization ability capable of detection temperature information from the images which were collected under different illuminance and were not used for training.Compared to the conventional machine learning algorithms mentioned in the recent literatures,this real-time,contact-free temperature measurement approach that does not require any further image processing operations facilitates temperature monitoring applications in the industrial and civil fields.

A Visible Light Imaging System for the Estimation of Plasma Vertical Displacement in J-TEXT

A wide-viewing-angle visible light imaging system （VLIS） was mounted on the Joint Texas Experimental Tokamak （J-TEXT） to monitor the discharge process. It is proposed that by using the film data recorded the plasma vertical displacement can be estimated. In this paper installation and operation of the VLIS are presented in detailed. The estimated result is further compared with that measured by using an array of magnetic pickup coils. Their consistency verifies that the estimation of the plasma vertical displacement in J-TEXT by using the imaging data is promising.

Intelligent Fusion of Infrared and Visible Image Data Based on Convolutional Sparse Representation and Improved Pulse-Coupled Neural Network

Multi-source information can be obtained through the fusion of infrared images and visible light images,which have the characteristics of complementary information.However,the existing acquisition methods of fusion images have disadvantages such as blurred edges,low contrast,and loss of details.Based on convolution sparse representation and improved pulse-coupled neural network this paper proposes an image fusion algorithm that decompose the source images into high-frequency and low-frequency subbands by non-subsampled Shearlet Transform(NSST).Furthermore,the low-frequency subbands were fused by convolutional sparse representation(CSR),and the high-frequency subbands were fused by an improved pulse coupled neural network(IPCNN)algorithm,which can effectively solve the problem of difficulty in setting parameters of the traditional PCNN algorithm,improving the performance of sparse representation with details injection.The result reveals that the proposed method in this paper has more advantages than the existing mainstream fusion algorithms in terms of visual effects and objective indicators.

A nondestructive method for estimating the total green leaf area of individual rice plants using multi-angle color images

Total green leaf area(GLA)is an important trait for agronomic studies.However,existing methods for estimating the GLA of individual rice plants are destructive and labor-intensive.A nondestructive method for estimating the total GLA of individual rice plants based on multi-angle color images is presented.Using projected areas of the plant in images,linear,quadratic,exponential and power regression models for estimating total GLA were evaluated.Tests demonstrated that the side-view projected area had a stronger relationship with the actual total leaf area than the top-projected area.And power models fit better than other models.In addition,the use of multiple side-view images was an efficient method for reducing the estimation error.The inclusion of the top-view projected area as a seoond predictor provided only a slight improvement of the total leaf area est imation.When the projected areas from multi angle images were used,the estimated leaf area(ELA)using the power model and the actual leaf area had a high correlation cofficient(R2>0.98),and the mean absolute percentage error(MAPE)was about 6%.The method was capable of estimating the total leaf area in a nondestructive,accurate and eficient manner,and it may be used for monitoring rice plant growth.

Ghost Imaging with High Visibility Using Classical Light Source

We experimentally demonstrate a novel ghost imaging experiment utilizing a classical light source, capable of resolving objects with a high visibility. The experimental results show that our scheme can indeed realize ghost imaging with high visibility for a relatively complicated object composed of three near-ellipse-shaped holes with different dimensions. In our experiment, the largest hole is -36 times of the smMlest one in area. Each of the three holes exhibits high-visibility in excess of 80%. The high visibility and high spatial-resolution advantages of this technique could have applications in remote sensing.

Multiscale method for identifying and marking the multiform fractures from visible-light rock-mass images

Multiform fractures have a direct impact on the mechanical performance of rock masses.To accurately identify multiform fractures,the distribution patterns of grayscale and the differential features of fractures in their neighborhoods are summarized.Based on this,a multiscale processing algorithm is proposed.The multiscale process is as follows.On the neighborhood of pixels,a grayscale continuous function is constructed using bilinear interpolation,the smoothing of the grayscale function is realized by Gaussian local filtering,and the grayscale gradient and Hessian matrix are calculated with high accuracy.On small-scale blocks,the pixels are classified by adaptively setting the grayscale threshold to identify potential line segments and mini-fillings.On the global image,potential line segments and mini-fillings are spliced together by progressing the block frontier layer-by-layer to identify and mark multiform fractures.The accuracy of identifying multiform fractures is improved by constructing a grayscale continuous function and adaptively setting the grayscale thresholds on small-scale blocks.And the layer-by-layer splicing algorithm is performed only on the domain of the 2-layer small-scale blocks,reducing the complexity.By using rock mass images with different fracture types as examples,the identification results show that the proposed algorithm can accurately identify the multiform fractures,which lays the foundation for calculating the mechanical parameters of rock masses.

New method for cotton fractional vegetation cover extraction based on UAV RGB images

As the key principle of precision farming,the distribution of fractional vegetation cover is the basis of crop management within the field serves.To estimate crop FVC rapidly at the farm scale,high temporal-spatial resolution imagery obtained by unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)was adopted.To verify the application potential of consumer-grade UAV RGB imagery in estimated FVC,blue-green characteristic vegetation index(TBVI)and red-green vegetation index(TRVI)were proposed in this study according to the differences of the gray value among cotton vegetation,soil and shadow in the field.First,two new constructed indices and several published indices were used to extract visible light images and generate greyscale images for each of the visible light vegetation indices.Then,the thresholds of cotton vegetation and non-vegetation pixels were established based on the vegetation index threshold method which combines support vector machine classification and vegetation index.Finally,the accuracy difference in vegetation information extraction between the newly constructed and several published indices was compared.The results show that the accuracy of the information extracted by TRVI is higher than that of subdivision index of other visible light(FVC extraction precision in the first bud stage of cotton:R2=0.832,RMSE=2.307,nRMSE=4.405%;FVC extraction precision in the bud stage of cotton:R2=0.981,RMSE=1.393,nRMSE=1.984%;FVC extraction precision in the flowering stage of cotton:R2=0.893,RMSE=2.101,nRMSE=2.422%;FVC extraction precision in the boll stage of cotton:R2=0.958,RMSE=1.850,nRMSE=2.050%).

High performance photodetector based on few-layer MoTe_(2)/CdS_(0.42)Se_(0.58) flake heterojunction

Two-dimensional(2D)transition metal dichalcogenides have been extensively studied due to their fascinating physical properties for constructing high-performance photodetectors.However,their relatively low responsivities,current on/off ratios and response speeds have hindered their widespread application.Herein,we fabricated a high-performance photodetector based on few-layer MoTe_(2) and CdS_(0.42)Se_(0.58) flake heterojunctions.The photodetector exhibited a high responsivity of 7221 A/W,a large current on/off ratio of 1.73×10^(4),a fast response speed of 90/120μs,external quantum efficiency(EQE)reaching up to 1.52×10^(6)%and detectivity(D*)reaching up to 1.67×10^(15) Jones.The excellent performance of the heterojunction photodetector was analyzed by a photocurrent mapping test and first-principle calculations.Notably,the visible light imaging function was successfully attained on the MoTe_(2)/CdS_(0.42)Se_(0.58) photodetectors,indicating that the device had practical imaging application prospects.Our findings provide a reference for the design of ultrahighperformance MoTe_(2)-based photodetectors.