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This paper is devoted to eliminating the noise from the measuring of directional thermal radiation for ground objects. Specifically, we think that the noise is mainly due to the variance of components in the field of view of the sensor with the view angle changing and to the heat balance change on the ground during the period of measurement. The authors present two new observation methods named as “constant area method by thermal camera” and “concurrent method by dual sensors” respectively. The experiments show that the data obtained by these methods abide by some regularly directional distribution, which is totally different from the data from the former methods. The analysis of the major factors in the directionality of thermal radiation is also made in the paper.
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Zhang, R., Sun, X., Li, Z. et al. Revealing of major factors in the directional thermal radiation of ground objects. Sci. China Ser. E-Technol. Sci. 43 (Suppl 1), 34–40 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02916576
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02916576