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PixPol: An In-Water Multispectral Polarized Upwelling Radiance Distribution Camera System

E. Riley Blocker aDepartment of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
bOcean Ecology Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
cScience Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, Maryland

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Kenneth J. Voss aDepartment of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

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13 Nov 2024
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01 Nov 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-24-0022.1
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1081–1092
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Abstract

PixPol is an in-water multispectral polarized upwelling radiance distribution fisheye camera system. Its imaging sensors utilize a pixel-level polarizer structure allowing for polarimetric retrieval from one image capture, offering an advantage compared to other in-water polarimetric fisheye camera systems that require information from multiple images. When submerged, PixPol images a scene from which the first three Stokes parameters are derived at an angular resolution of 1° within a field of view that encompasses all azimuthal angles up to an elevation of 43° from nadir. For all viewing angles, Stokes parameter I and the linear polarization parameters, Q/I and U/I, are retrieved with an interpixel uncertainty of ±5%, ±0.02%, and ±0.02%, respectively. From these parameters, an uncertainty of ±0.01 is attained for the degree of linear polarization and ±0.9° for the angle of linear polarization. A description of the camera system, its radiometric and polarization calibration, and the associated uncertainties are described. Example images of the distribution of downwelling polarized light in the sky just above the ocean’s surface and upwelling polarized light just below the surface are provided.

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Corresponding author: E. Riley Blocker, edward.r.blocker@nasa.gov

Abstract

PixPol is an in-water multispectral polarized upwelling radiance distribution fisheye camera system. Its imaging sensors utilize a pixel-level polarizer structure allowing for polarimetric retrieval from one image capture, offering an advantage compared to other in-water polarimetric fisheye camera systems that require information from multiple images. When submerged, PixPol images a scene from which the first three Stokes parameters are derived at an angular resolution of 1° within a field of view that encompasses all azimuthal angles up to an elevation of 43° from nadir. For all viewing angles, Stokes parameter I and the linear polarization parameters, Q/I and U/I, are retrieved with an interpixel uncertainty of ±5%, ±0.02%, and ±0.02%, respectively. From these parameters, an uncertainty of ±0.01 is attained for the degree of linear polarization and ±0.9° for the angle of linear polarization. A description of the camera system, its radiometric and polarization calibration, and the associated uncertainties are described. Example images of the distribution of downwelling polarized light in the sky just above the ocean’s surface and upwelling polarized light just below the surface are provided.

© 2024 American Meteorological Society. This published article is licensed under the terms of the default AMS reuse license. For information regarding reuse of this content and general copyright information, consult the AMS Copyright Policy (www.ametsoc.org/PUBSReuseLicenses).

Corresponding author: E. Riley Blocker, edward.r.blocker@nasa.gov
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