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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2020
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT (US);
Joseph A. Shaw, Bozeman, MT (US);
Laura M. Eshelman, Owens Cross Roads, AL (US);
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, Bozeman, MT (US);
Abstract
A method and system for imaging thermodynamic phase of clouds includes obtaining a spatially-resolved polarimetric image of a region of the sky containing a cloud using a multipixel image sensor having multiple channels corresponding to different wavelength bands, determining a value of the Stokes Spolarization parameter of incident light on each pixel corresponding to a portion of the image containing the cloud for multiple channels corresponding to different wavelength bands, and determining the thermodynamic phase of the cloud within the image based on the values of the Stokes Spolarization parameter. The Stokes Spolarization parameter values determined for a first channel corresponding to a first wavelength band is used to determine a liquid thermodynamic phase, and the Stokes Spolarization parameter values determined for a second channel corresponding to a second, shorter wavelength band is used to determine an ice thermodynamic phase.