Using all sky cameras to determine cloud statistics for the thirty meter telescope candidate sites

Warren Skidmore; Matthias Schöck; Eugene Magnier; David Walker; Dan Feldman; Reed Riddle; Sebastian Els; Tony Travouillon; Edison Bustos; Juan Seguel; Joselino Vasquez; Robert Blum; Paul Gillett; Brooke Gregory

doi:10.1117/12.788141

Using all sky cameras to determine cloud statistics for the thirty meter telescope candidate sites

Warren Skidmore, Matthias Schöck, Eugene Magnier, David Walker, Dan Feldman, Reed Riddle, Sebastian Els, Tony Travouillon, Edison Bustos, Juan Seguel, Joselino Vasquez, Robert Blum, Paul Gillett, Brooke Gregory

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Abstract

All Sky Cameras were deployed at all Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) candidate sites. The images gathered by these cameras were used to assess the cloud statistics for each site. We describe two methods that were developed to do this, a manual method based on inspection of blue and red movies, and an automated method based on photometric analysis of the images.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788141
State	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II - Marseille, France Duration: 23 Jun 2008 → 28 Jun 2008

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	7012
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

Conference

Conference	Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II
Country/Territory	France
City	Marseille
Period	23/06/08 → 28/06/08

Keywords

All sky camera
Clear sky
Cloud statistics
Thirty meter telescope
site

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Skidmore, W., Schöck, M., Magnier, E., Walker, D., Feldman, D., Riddle, R., Els, S., Travouillon, T., Bustos, E., Seguel, J., Vasquez, J., Blum, R., Gillett, P., & Gregory, B. (2008). Using all sky cameras to determine cloud statistics for the thirty meter telescope candidate sites. In Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II Article 701224 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7012). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788141

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Using all sky cameras to determine cloud statistics for the thirty meter telescope candidate sites. / Skidmore, Warren; Schöck, Matthias; Magnier, Eugene et al.
Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II. 2008. 701224 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 7012).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Using all sky cameras to determine cloud statistics for the thirty meter telescope candidate sites

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