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Visibility : the seeing of near and distant landscape features /
Visibility: The Seeing of Near and Distant Landscape Features reviews the science of visibility from how to measure it quantitatively to its impacts by one of the foremost experts in the field. Carefully designed pedagogy allows a diversity of readers, from regulators to researchers to use this book...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, Netherland :
Elsevier Science,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page; Table of Contents; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; Abstract; What is visibility?; What is visibility impairment?; Chapter 2: On the Nature of Light and Its Interaction with Atmospheric Particles; Abstract; Interaction of light and particles; Real-world estimates of mass scattering efficiencies; Aerosol water; The apportionment problem; Removal of a species from the atmosphere; What do we know about real-world mass extinction efficiencies?; Chapter 3: How the Transfer of Light (Radiation) through the Atmosphere Affects Visibility; Abstract.
- Quantifying the transfer of radiation through the atmosphereContrast transmittance in real space; Equivalent contrast; Contrast transmittance in spatial frequency space (modulation transfer function); Dependence of contrast transmittance (Ct) on atmospheric optical variables; Chapter 4: Visibility Metrics; Abstract; Universal metrics; Scene-dependent visibility metrics; The just noticeable change (JNC); Chapter 5: Human Perception of Haze and Landscape Features; Abstract; Colorimetric measurements of haze; Visual air quality judgments; Urban visibility preference studies.
- Visibility in an urban settingVisibility effects on visitor experience in natural settings; Thresholds and just noticeable differences/changes; Probability of detection algorithm (PROBDET); Extinction change required to evoke a suprathreshold JNC; Chapter 6: Image Processing Techniques for Displaying Haze Effects on Landscape Features; Abstract; The radiation transfer problem; The use of image processing techniques to visually represent effects of haze on scenic landscape features; Examples of image processing to display effects of haze on landscape features; Chapter 7: Monitoring Visibility.
- AbstractBasic principles of measurement of scattering and extinction; Basic concepts of measurement of particles in the atmosphere; A more in-depth look at optical monitoring principles related to visibility; Scene and radiance measurements; Scattering measurements; Absorption measurements; Transmission measurements; Chapter 8: History of Visibility as an Esthetic Concern in the United States; Abstract; Visibility and energy development on the colorado plateau; Visibility is formally protected; Visibility monitoring; Visibility modeling; Visibility regulations; Implementation activities.
- Parallel regulatory programs affect class I visibilityProgress is underway; Appendix 1: Units and Definitions; Appendix 2: Clean Air Act 169A & B; Glossary; Subject Index.