Research Article
An Infrared Cloud Imaging System for Satellite-Earth Laser Communications
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-69069-4_35, author={Zhang Zhi-yong and Zhao Kang-lian and Fang Yuan and Li Wen-feng}, title={An Infrared Cloud Imaging System for Satellite-Earth Laser Communications}, proceedings={Wireless and Satellite Systems. 11th EAI International Conference, WiSATS 2020, Nanjing, China, September 17-18, 2020, Proceedings, Part I}, proceedings_a={WISATS}, year={2021}, month={2}, keywords={Satellite-to-Earth laser communication High-Rate-Data Cloud infrared imager Radiation calibration}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-69069-4_35} }- Zhang Zhi-yong
Zhao Kang-lian
Fang Yuan
Li Wen-feng
Year: 2021
An Infrared Cloud Imaging System for Satellite-Earth Laser Communications
WISATS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-69069-4_35
Abstract
This paper designs an infrared cloud imaging system for satellite-to-earth laser communications. The imaging system provides a reliable service for establishing an effective satellite laser communication link by collecting the cloud images over a ground station site, processing and analyzing the time and space statistics of the cloud, and acquiring the optical depth of the cloud. To realize day and night automatic monitoring of cloud state information, the infrared cloud imager designed in this paper can effectively observe the fixed viewpoint of the sky, and the uncooled infrared focal plane array calibration model considering the working temperature effect of the detector can meet the radiation setting of sky cloud monitoring, which provides cloud state data information with higher temporal and spatial resolution. Preliminary observation experiments show that the infrared cloud imaging system proposed in this paper can get required real-time cloud image and information for space-terrestrial laser communications.
