월면 디지털 영상 분석을 이용한 대기 광학두께 산출 = Retrieval of Atmospheric Optical Thickness from Digital Images of the Moon

국문 초록 (Abstract)

이 연구에서는 상용 디지털 카메라를 이용하여 야간에 촬영된 월면 영상을 분석하여 야간의 대기 광학두께와 에어로솔 광학두께를 추정하였다. 기본적으로 랑리회귀법을 이용하였으며 구름이 없고 대기의 광학적 특성이 비교적 안정한 날에 관측을 수행하였다. 카메라의 적색(R), 녹색(G), 청색(B) 채널의 파장별 반응함수를 이용하여 월광관측에 대한 유효 중심파장 및 레일리 광학두께를 추정하였으며, 랑리 회귀법에서 유도된대기광학두께로부터 레일리 광학두께를 제하여 에어로솔 광학 두께를 산출하였다. 야간에는 독립적인 방법으로 산출된 검증자료나 다른 에어로솔 광학두께 자료가 거의 없으므로 월면 관측이 이루어지기 수 시간 전의 주간에 정밀한 태양분광광도계로 측정된 에어로솔 광학두께 자료와 MODIS 위성센서 관측으로부터 산출된 에어로솔 광학두께 자료를 본 연구에서 월면 관측을 통해 산출된 자료와 비교하였다. 비교 결과 R, G, B 채널에서 대략 0.1정도의 오차 범위에서 월면 영상분석을 통해 에어로솔 광학두께의 추정이 가능함을 알 수 있었다. 단, 대기 중의 에어로솔 입자들의 크기를 나타내는 모수인 앙스트롬지수(Angstrom Exponent)는 파장별 광학두께의 작은 오차에도 큰 오차를 가질 수 있기 때문에 에어로솔 광학두께의 오차에 비해 비교적 큰 오차를 보일수 있음이 나타났다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 야간의 에어로솔 광학두께 자료가 많지 않은 현실에서 저비용으로 월면 관측을 통하여 에어로솔 광학두께를 산출할 수 있는 가능성을 찾았다는 점에서 본 연구의 의의가 있으며 앞으로 보다 많은 관측과 분석을 통해 보다 향상된 야간 에어로솔 광학두께 추정이 가능할 것으로 보인다.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Atmospheric optical thickness during nighttime was estimated in this study using analysis on the images of the moon taken from commercial digital camera. Basically the Langely Regression method was applied to the observations of the moon for the cloudless and optically stable sky conditions. The spectral response functions for the red(R), green(G), and blue(B) channels were employed to derive effective wavelength centers of each channel for the observations of the moon, and the correspondent Rayleigh optical thickness were also calculated. Aerosol optical thickness (AOT) was calculated by subtracting Rayleigh optical thickness from the atmospheric optical thickness derived from the Langley regression method. As there are only handful of nighttime AOT observations, the AOT from the moon observations was compared with the AOT from sun-photometers and the MODIS satellite sensor, which was taken several hours before the moon observations of this study. As a result, the values of AOT from moon observations agree with those from sun-photometers and MODIS within 0.1 for the R, G, B channels of the digital camera. On the other hand, Angstrom Exponent seems to be subject to larger errors due to its sensitiveness to the spectral errors of AOT. Nevertheless, the results of this study indicate that the method reported in this study is promising as it can provide nighttime AOT relatively easily with a low cost instrument like digital camera. More observations and analyses are warranted to attain improved nighttime AOT observations in the future.

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