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A scorch extraction method for the Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder based on multivariable thresholding

  • Beihang University

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Abstract

The Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder is an instrument which can measure the solar radiation by using the scorch on the recorder card. It is short for C-S. The weak scorch and the strong scorch represent different solar radiation. The weak scorch is so hard to extract that the radiation represented by the weak scorch always be neglected. The present methods reduce the accuracy of extraction, because these methods only extract the strong scorch and falsely treat the weak scorch as background. The RGB (red, green, blue) color image has more details of scorch than gray image, so a new method for scorch extraction based on the multivariable thresholding is proposed in this paper. The method segments the scorch with self-adaptive thresholds and optimizes the extraction with the amendatory coefficient, consequently, the robustness and accuracy of the algorithm is improved.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIST 2013 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Proceedings
Pages410-414
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event2013 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, IST 2013 - Beijing, China
Duration: 22 Oct 201323 Oct 2013

Publication series

NameIST 2013 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Proceedings

Conference

Conference2013 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, IST 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period22/10/1323/10/13

Keywords

  • multivariable thresholding
  • scorch extraction
  • self-adaptive thresholds
  • The C-S sunshine recorder

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