Point-source suppression for atmospheric wave extraction from airglow imaging measurements

Jing Tang; Farzad Kamalabadi; Lee G. Rumsey; Gary R. Swenson

doi:10.1109/TGRS.2002.808064

Point-source suppression for atmospheric wave extraction from airglow imaging measurements

Jing Tang, Farzad Kamalabadi, Lee G. Rumsey, Gary R. Swenson

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Abstract

Spectroscopic images of atmospheric chemiluminescent airglow contain fundamental diagnostic information about the structure and dynamics of the upper atmosphere. However, westward movement of stars causes nonnegligible contamination in the two-dimensional horizontal wavenumber spectra extracted from all-sky airglow images. The conventional star-removing scheme is not effective in attenuating the star artifacts in the spectra of emission intensities of gravity wave perturbation, hindering the subsequent calculation of the angular spectra and the momentum fluxes of the profiles. To address this problem, a gradient-based edge detection algorithm for locating and attenuating the undesired star signal is developed. Comparatively, this algorithm is more effective than the conventional star-removing methods. The algorithm is validated in the context of experimentally obtained spectra.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	146-152
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Volume	41
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2002.808064
State	Published - Jan 2003

Keywords

Atmospheric measurements
Feature extraction
Point-source attenuation
Spectroscopic imaging

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Electrical and Electronic Engineering
General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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