OPTIKA ATMOSFERY I OKEANA JOURNAL
V.E. ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS
Vol. 13, issue 04, article # 7
pdf Astafurov V. G. Possibility of detecting forest fires from space during daytime under conditions of broken clouds. Part 1. // Atmospheric and oceanic optics. 2000. V. 13. No. 04. P. 326-330.Copy the reference to clipboard
Abstract:
The efficiency of daytime detection of flaming zones from space by thermal radiation is limited by the noise produced by solar radiation reflected in the "cloudy atmosphere - underlying surface" system. In this paper, the Monte Carlo method is applied to the study of statistical characteristics of solar and thermal radiation noise measured with a radiometer. The algorithm for numerical simulation is presented. The efficiency of the flaming zones detection depending on their size and cloud amount is estimated by the value of the signal-to-noise ratio. The mean thermal radiation noise is compared with the solar radiation noise.