Retrieving Point Cloud of Cloud Points (PCCP) Value-Added Product from Stereo Cameras
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
In this report, we refer to a pair of cameras that capture synchronized pictures with overlapping fields of view (FOV) as a stereo pair. Each stereo pair independently performs a stereo reconstruction of cloud points. Currently, there are three U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility stereo pairs (six cameras in total) positioned around the Southern Great Plains (SGP) observatory’s Central Facility (CF; Romps and Oktem 2017). Time-synchronized pictures from the two cameras in a stereo pair can be paired together to obtain a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of feature points by triangulation. This document explains how we use ARM stereo cameras and stereophotogrammetric principles to generate the Point Cloud of Cloud Points (PCCP) Value-Added Product (VAP). The PCCP VAP is essentially a set of 3D positions representing the locations of cloud features in the sky. Thousands of cloud features can be reconstructed instantly in each stereo pair's FOV, which covers an area of tens of square kilometers. Cloud base and cloud top heights can be extracted from the PCCP product.
- Research Organization:
- DOE Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Earth and Environmental Systems Science Division
- OSTI ID:
- 1808690
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/SC-ARM/TR-252
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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