System and method for atmospheric parameter enhancement
AssigneeThe Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorSteven D. Miller
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Abstract
System and method for enhancing at least one atmospheric parameter of interest provided in remotely-sensed data by detecting and suppressing false alarm data, including computer code to receive measurement data and background including false alarms, computer code to conduct detection tests for the atmospheric parameter, computer code to compute the strength of the tests, and computer code to weight the measurement data based on the strengths and enhance the measurement data based on the weighted data.
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A computer-based method for enhancing at least one atmospheric parameter of interest provided in remotely-sensed data by detecting and suppressing false alarm data comprising:
- automatically receiving measurement data for the atmospheric parameter of interest in a scene, the measurement data including false alarm data;
- automatically compiling, from a number of observations, background data at each location in the scene, the BG data including the false alarm data;
- automatically selecting the measurement data to enhance, the selected measurement data each having a value greater than the value of the background data corresponding to the measurement data at each of the locations;
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- automatically enhancing the selected measurement data at each of the locations by scaling the measurement data, the scaling bounds being dynamically defined based on the locations and the background data corresponding to each of the locations.
A computer-implemented method for creating enhanced imagery derived from remotely-sensed data for at least one atmospheric parameter comprising:
- (a) automatically conducting multiple detection tests of the remotely-sensed data for the at least one atmospheric parameter, each of the tests having a spatially resolved background value, each of the tests having a result;
- (b) automatically computing the strength of contribution of each of the tests based on the background value corresponding to each of the tests and the results;
- (c) automatically weighting the results based on the strengths;
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- (d) automatically creating enhanced imagery for the at least one atmospheric parameter based on the combined weighted results.
A computer-based system for enhancing at least one atmospheric parameter of interest provided in remotely-sensed data by detecting and suppressing false alarm data comprising:
- a receiver automatically receiving measurement data for the atmospheric parameter of interest in a scene, the measurement data including false alarm data;
- a background data processor automatically compiling, from a number of observations, background data at each location in the scene, the background data including the false alarm data;
- a data selector automatically selecting the measurement data to enhance, the selected measurement data each having a value greater than the value of the background data corresponding to the measurement data at each of the locations;
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- an atmospheric parameter enhancer automatically enhancing the selected measurement data at each of the locations by scaling the measurement data, the scaling bounds being dynamically defined based on the locations and the background data corresponding to each of the locations.
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