Visibility Estimation through Image Analytics (VEIA)

The Visibility Estimation through Image Analytics (VEIA) technology provides an inexpensive and robust way to extract meteorological visibility from cameras - thus transforming cameras into weather sensors. The VEIA algorithm uses the presence and strength of edges in an image to provide an estimation of the meteorological visibility within the scene. The algorithm compares the overall edge strength of the current image to those from a clear day representation generated by creating a composite image from several days of imagery.
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