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Image and video quality in Long Range Observation Systems (LOROS) suffer from atmospheric turbulence that causes small neighbourhoods in image frames to chaotically move in different directions and substantially hampers visual analysis of…

Optics · Physics 2010-07-27 Barak Fishbain , Leonid P. Yaroslavsky , Ianir A. Ideses

Using only lidar or radar an accurate cloud boundary height estimate is often not possible. The combination of lidar and radar can give a reliable cloud boundary estimate in a much broader range of cases. However, also this combination with…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Victor Venema , Herman Russchenberg , Arnoud Apituley , Andre van Lammeren , Leo Ligthart

The influence of atmospheric turbulence on acquired surveillance imagery poses significant challenges in image interpretation and scene analysis. Conventional approaches for target classification and tracking are less effective under such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Disen Hu , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Monitoring turbulence parameters is crucial in high-angular resolution astronomy for various purposes, such as optimising adaptive optics systems or fringe trackers. The former are present at most modern observatories and will remain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Nuno Morujão , Carlos Correia , Paulo Andrade , Julien Woillez , Paulo Garcia

Dome seeing is a known source of image quality degradation, but despite tremendous progress in wavefront control with the development of adaptive optics and environmental control through implementation of dome venting, surprisingly little…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-06 Olivier Lai , Kanoa Withington , Romain Laugier , Mark Chun

Atmospheric turbulence causes significant image degradation due to pixel displacement (tilt) and blur, particularly in long-range imaging applications. In this paper, we propose a novel framework for atmospheric turbulence mitigation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hanliang Du , Zhangji Lu , Zewei Cai , Qijian Tang , Qifeng Yu , Xiaoli Liu

We present results from the first year of a campaign to characterize and monitor the optical turbulence profile at the SAAO Sutherland observing station in South Africa. A MASS-DIMM (MultiAperture Scintillation Sensor - Differential Image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-29 Laure Catala , Steven M. Crawford , David A. H. Buckley , Tim Pickering , Richard Wilson , Tim Butterley , Harry Shepherd , Fred Marang , Patrick Matshaya , Chantal Fourie

Context. The diffusion of adaptive optics systems in astronomical instrumentation for large ground-based telescopes is rapidly increasing and the pyramid wavefront sensor is replacing the Shack-Hartmann as the standard solution for single…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-27 Guido Agapito , Enrico Pinna , Simone Esposito , Cedric Taïssir Heritier , Sylvain Oberti

Atmospheric turbulence in long-range imaging significantly degrades the quality and fidelity of captured scenes due to random variations in both spatial and temporal dimensions. These distortions present a formidable challenge across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Zhicheng Zou , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

A variety of neural networks architectures are being studied to tackle blur in images and videos caused by a non-steady camera and objects being captured. In this paper, we present an overview of these existing networks and perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Tushar Jain , Madeline Lubien , Jerome Gilles

From the South Pole, microthermal turbulence within a narrow surface boundary layer some 200m thick provides the dominant contribution to the astronomical seeing. We present results for the seeing at a wavelength of 2.4um. The narrow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 RD Marks

LiDAR sensors are used in autonomous driving applications to accurately perceive the environment. However, they are affected by adverse weather conditions such as snow, fog, and rain. These everyday phenomena introduce unwanted noise into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Aldi Piroli , Vinzenz Dallabetta , Johannes Kopp , Marc Walessa , Daniel Meissner , Klaus Dietmayer

Instabilities and turbulence extending to the smallest dynamical scales play important roles in the deposition of energy and momentum by gravity waves throughout the atmosphere. However, these dynamics and their effects have been impossible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-08 A. D. Miller , D. C. Fritts , D. Chapman , G. Jones , M. Limon , D. Araujo , J. Didier , S. Hillbrand , C. B. Kjellstrand , A. Korotkov , G. Tucker , Y. Vinokurov , K. Wan , L. Wang

Using five independent analytic and Monte Carlo simulation codes, we have studied the performance of wide field ground layer adaptive optics (GLAO), which can use a single, relatively low order deformable mirror to correct the wavefront…

Atmospheric Turbulence (AT) degrades the clarity and accuracy of surveillance imagery, posing challenges not only for visualization quality but also for object classification and scene tracking. Deep learning-based methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Paul Hill , Zhiming Liu , Alin Achim , Dave Bull , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Atmospheric turbulence characterization is crucial for technologies like free-space optical communications. Existing methods using a spatially-integrated one-dimensional (1D) orbital angular momentum (OAM) spectrum, P(m), obscure the…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-09 Wenjie Jiang , Mingjian Cheng , Lixin Guo , Andrew Forbes

A novel approach is presented to recover an image degraded by atmospheric turbulence. Given a sequence of frames affected by turbulence, we construct a variational model to characterize the static image. The optimization problem is solved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yu Mao , Jerome Gilles

The influence of atmospheric turbulence on acquired imagery makes image interpretation and scene analysis extremely difficult and reduces the effectiveness of conventional approaches for classifying and tracking objects of interest in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Paul Hill , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Alin Achim , David Bull

In this paper, we conducted a detailed analysis of optical turbulence in the Atmospheric Surface Layer (ASL) at Muztagh-ata site during on-site testing. We utilized ultrasonic anemometers positioned on a 30-meter tower to collect and…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Wenbo Gu , Ali Esamdin , Chunhai Bai , Xuan Zhang , Guojie Feng , Guangxin Pu , Letian Wang , Gaowen Sun , Haozhi Wang , Lixian Shen

Ground based long-range passive imaging systems often suffer from degraded image quality due to a turbulent atmosphere. While methods exist for removing such turbulent distortions, many are limited to static sequences which cannot be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Zhiyuan Mao , Nicholas Chimitt , Stanley Chan