Research on Constant Temperature Two-Color Light Sources for Nighttime Visibility Estimation
TANG Qi-xing1, ZHOU Yi1, DAI Pang-da1, GAO Yan-wei2, FAN Bo-qiang1,3, LI Meng-qi1,3, HE Ying1, YOU Kun1, ZHANG Yu-jun1*
1. Key Laboratory of Environmental Optics & Technology, Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China
2. Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230061, China
3. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Abstract：Visibility is the maximum horizontal distance that can be seen. Its observations and forecasts have been widely used in various fields of weather forecasting, environmental pollution analysis, and transportation. The existing visibility estimation methods are mainly divided into scattering type and transmission type. Among them, digital camera method for measuring visibility is the closest to the definition. With the development of digital camera technology, the research and application of digital camera measurement methods have been accelerated. However, in the process of nighttime visibility measurement by using a digital camera, the measurement is inevitably affected by the background light, the gray level of the light source, etc., resulting in unstable visibility measurement, low precision of observation results and small observation range. It is known that the accuracy of visibility measurement can be guaranteed by using the stability of dual light sources. Most studies have used a white light source to solve the measurement visibility instability problem. From the perspective of quasi-monochromatic light sources, the penetration ability of light sources in different frequency bands is different. In the visible range, the characteristics of the penetrating ability are analyzed. Based on the existing dual light sources, a method for nighttime visibility estimation based on constant temperature two-color light sources has been proposed, which realized high-precision and wide-range visibility estimation under different weather conditions. By designing the constant temperature duallight sources, the influence of ambient temperature change on the light intensity is reduced. Constant voltage and the constant current module are used to ensure the consistency of the dual sources light intensity. The integrating sphere is used to ensure the uniformity of the light intensity. According to different penetrating powers of different frequency bands, the two-color light sources are used to achieve high-precision and wide-range visibility. A visibility observation system based on constant temperature two-color light sources has been established. A series of experiments have been carried out. The experimental results show that the consistency of the two light sources reaches 0.99. When the visibility is not good, the light intensity of the blue light reaching the camera is weak, and the measurement result of the red light is close to the true value. When it is sunny, nighttime visibility is good. At this time, the difference in blue transmittance is large, which is beneficial to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. The standard deviation of the blue light source is 36.90, and the measurement result of blue light is close to the true value. When the visibility range is up to 15 000 m, one month of experimental observation is performed. By comparing with real values, the proposed method has great accuracy within the visibility range.
基金资助: Nature Science Foundation of China(41575156)
通讯作者:
张玉钧
E-mail: yjzhang@aiofm.ac.cn
作者简介: TANG Qi-xing, (1989—), female, PhD student, Key Laboratory of Environmental Optics & Technology, Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences e-mail:
qxtang@aiofm.ac.cn
引用本文:
唐七星，周 毅，戴庞达，高彦伟，范博强，李梦琪, 何 莹, 尤 坤，张玉钧. 恒温双色光源夜间能见度观测方法研究[J]. 光谱学与光谱分析, 2021, 41(01): 312-318.
TANG Qi-xing, ZHOU Yi, DAI Pang-da, GAO Yan-wei, FAN Bo-qiang, LI Meng-qi, HE Ying, YOU Kun, ZHANG Yu-jun. Research on Constant Temperature Two-Color Light Sources for Nighttime Visibility Estimation. SPECTROSCOPY AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS, 2021, 41(01): 312-318.
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