Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 51, Issue 4, 240002-1(2024)

Design and implement of a space-borne sun glint polarization parameter computing system

Yuhao Li1...2, Feng Ji1, Zhenwei Qiu2, Feinan Chen2,*, Zhuoran Li2, Gaojun Chi2, Jingjing Chen1, Yadong Hu2 and Mengfan Li2 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1School of Instrument Science and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, Anhui 230009, China
  • 2Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
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    Sun glint is a significant confounding factor in passive optical remote sensing images. To mitigate this issue, a polarizer is typically incorporated in front of the remote sensor, leveraging the linear polarization characteristics of sun glint. The suppression effects depend on the relative position of the sun and the remote sensor, as well as the directions of polarizers. In this paper, we introduce a novel onboard system for the real-time computation of Sun glint polarization parameters, devised specifically for a spaceborne atmospheric correction instrument. Utilizing three channel polarization images (at 0°, 60°, and 120°) in the 670 band of the spaceborne atmospheric correction, we calculate the sun glint parameters and compared them against the 6S radiation transfer model, excluding image pixels heavily influenced by the could. The system is implemented using the V5 series Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) as the hardware platform, and the High-Level Synthesis Tool (HLS) as the software platform. The performance of the system is verified through a simple laboratory experiment, which demonstrates a calculation deviation within 0.5°. In terms of computational efficiency, the system processes a 25x25 pixel dataset in 19.47281 ms using a 100 MHz clock, with the highest resource utilization rate reaching 41%.

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    Yuhao Li, Feng Ji, Zhenwei Qiu, Feinan Chen, Zhuoran Li, Gaojun Chi, Jingjing Chen, Yadong Hu, Mengfan Li. Design and implement of a space-borne sun glint polarization parameter computing system[J]. Opto-Electronic Engineering, 2024, 51(4): 240002-1

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    Category: Article

    Received: Jan. 23, 2024

    Accepted: Feb. 26, 2024

    Published Online: Jul. 8, 2024

    The Author Email: Chen Feinan (陈斐楠)

    DOI:10.12086/oee.2024.240002

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