CN201976195U - Continuous imager for all-time cloud coverage map - Google Patents
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The utility model relates to a continuous imager for an all-time cloud coverage map, which comprises eight parts. A telescope is used for collecting target radiation and gathering target images on a focal plane. A focal plane component comprises a full-frame surface array CCD (charge coupled device), a power supply circuit and a drive circuit, wherein the drive circuit is used for receiving frame external synchronization signals and bit synchronization signals through a data interface and generating the working time of the CCD. A signal processing unit is used for analog processing and analog-digital conversion of video signals. An accumulation controller is used for accumulating digital video signals output by the signal processing unit in an image storage unit and recording the number of saturated pixels in the image storage unit. An output controller is used for determining whether to stop accumulation according to the proportion of exposure pixels and controlling an image output sequence. An image storage device is managed by the accumulation controller and the output controller and is used for accumulating images. A formatting unit is used for uniformly formatting output data and outputting the data through a data interface. The instrument has high reliability, and the real-time and dynamic monitoring of cloud coverage can be achieved.
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Technical field
The utility model relates to a kind of optical imagery instrument, can be applicable to the visible cloud image that obtains arbitrary time period at night on the satellite, the dynamic change of monitoring atmosphere.
Background technology
The cloud coverage diagram is the environmental information that important value is arranged.Can judge the differentiation of weather system by the cloud coverage diagram, infer multiple important environmental key-element, as the distributed intelligence in atmospheric stability, atmospheric vertical motion, troposphere wind speed/wind direction and rainfall zone etc.Satellite cloud coverage diagram is divided into visible Shekinah coverage diagram (being visible cloud image) and infrared cloud coverage diagram (infrared cloud image).The visible cloud image that obtains night claims the low-light cloud atlas again.
Because business relations, all there are active demand in meteorology, navigation and military service to the low-light cloud atlas.At present, the instrument that loads on the satellite obtains all is infrared cloud image and visible cloud image during daytime, low-light cloud atlas imager only has employing on U.S. national defense meteorological satellite plan (being called for short DMSP) and SSO (Sun Synchronous Orbit) service environment satellite system (being called for short NPOESS), be respectively service line scanner (being called for short OLS) and visible light/infrared imaging radiometer external member (being called for short VIIRS).
OLS is towards sun synchronization proximal pole ground orbiter, and can obtain the cloud atlas of two width of cloth area-of-interests every day.OLS has selected the sweeping mode, and a scanning mirror is arranged in its inside, observation swath 2960km.Two groups of detectors are arranged on the visible light focal plane of OLS, and silicon photoelectric diode is worked by day, and photomultiplier is being worked at night.The shortcoming of OLS is a complex structure, and whole telescope is ceaselessly just being swept and flyback, and control is a sizable disturbance to celestial body, in addition, influenced by photomultiplier, and night, the radiation quality of cloud atlas was not high.
VIIRS has 22 passages, and four kinds of focal plane arrays have been used in three focal planes, and structure is more complicated than OLS.VIIRS has day and night used time-delay integration CCD device (being TDICCD) on the cloud atlas focal plane, and for radiation calibration has disposed reference blackbody and sun diffuse reflector, has improved the radiation quality of cloud atlas.But, the same with OLS, VIIRS towards also be sun synchronization proximal pole ground orbiter, can only obtain two width of cloth area-of-interest cloud atlas every day, can not realize dynamic surveillance.Though VIIRS does not have scanning mirror, the telescope rotating mechanism that has a radiation calibration to use, influential to whole star control and dynamics equally.
Therefore, existing low-light cloud atlas imager all towards be sun synchronization proximal pole ground orbiter, all do not support the analysis that weather system develops, and complex structure degree height, on the stationary orbit meteorological satellite, still do not have round-the-clock cloud atlas Image-forming instrument and occur.
The utility model content
Technology of the present utility model is dealt with problems and is: overcome the deficiencies in the prior art, a kind of simple in structure, round-the-clock cloud coverage diagram continuous imaging instrument that output image quality is high is provided.
Technical solution of the present utility model is: round-the-clock cloud coverage diagram continuous imaging instrument, comprise telescope, focal plane parts, signal processing unit, the controller that adds up, o controller, video memory, formatting unit and data-interface, wherein:
Telescope: be used to collect target emanation, and the picture of target is converged on the focal plane;
Focal plane parts: comprise full frame type area array CCD and power supply circuits and drive circuit; Full frame type area array CCD is converted to the signal of telecommunication as imageing sensor with light signal; Power supply circuits provide the biasing and the power supply of various voltage and current outputs for CCD; Drive circuit receives outside frame synchronizing signal and the bit synchronization signal that provides through data-interface, and the generation work clock is also delivered to full frame type area array CCD respectively, controller and o controller add up;
Signal processing unit: N signal processing channel arranged, the image output of corresponding one road CCD device of each passage, each signal processing channel includes correlated double sampling circuit, amplifier circuit in low noise, clamp circuit and analog to digital conversion circuit;
Controller adds up: each signal processing channel connects the controller that adds up, the work clock that the controller that adds up transmits according to drive circuit, with the storage that adds up of digital signal corresponding image storage unit in video memory of signal processing channel output, and write down the quantity of saturated pixel in the correspondence image memory cell;
O controller: the work clock that transmits according to drive circuit, the statistics saturated pixel quantity summation in the video memory of controller record that respectively adds up, if saturated pixel quantity summation exceeds preset value, then the content in the video memory is all read and is delivered to the formatting unit;
Video memory: N memory cell arranged, and the dateout of a port of each cell stores CCD device is carried out data access under the control of add up controller and o controller;
Formatting unit:, send data-interface output after the dateout that transmits done unified layout according to the appointment data form of the quantity of transmission channel, transmission rate and the transmission of star ground;
Data-interface: outside frame synchronizing signal and the bit synchronization signal that provides is provided and delivers to drive circuit, to outside output image data.
The utility model advantage compared with prior art is:
The first, the utility model imager can carry out real-time dynamic surveillance to the cloud coverage condition, from dusk until dawn.Under the cooperation of video memory, add up controller and o controller, the per second exposure once, automatically adjust the exposure frequency that adds up, so, instrument can adapt to the wide variation of cloud body spoke brightness automatically, rdaiation response is highly sensitive, even can guarantee also that under the faintest moonlight being no more than two minutes just exports the image that a width of cloth quality satisfies instructions for use;
The second, the utility model imager does not have mechanical shutter, no-movable part, reliability height.Because instrument position height (36000 kilometers), an instrument can be realized the supervision of the domestic cloud coverage condition of the whole of China, neither needs scanning mirror also not need to swing telescope.Though what use is full frame type CCD device, because the brightness of cloud body spoke is low, during shifting, signal charge need not to close input path, so need not the cooperation of mechanical shutter;
The 3rd, the utility model imager picture quality is good, and signal to noise ratio can reach more than the 10dB under 1/4th moonlight, and the linearity of rdaiation response is better than 7%.This instrument the is integrated controller that adds up, o controller and video memory, under output controller controls, the exposure result is added up, automatically regulate the exposure frequency that adds up according to the saturated pixel proportion, because the growth rate of noise in accumulation do not have the growth rate of signal fast, this structural design had both adapted to the dynamic change of cloud body radiation, had taken into account the high linearity and the high signal noise ratio of output radiation response again.
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Fig. 1 is the composition structure chart of the utility model imager;
Fig. 2 is the add up workflow diagram of controller of the utility model;
Fig. 3 is the workflow diagram of the utility model o controller;
Fig. 4 is the utility model add up controller, o controller and video memory graph of a relation.
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As shown in Figure 1, the utility model comprises telescope, focal plane parts, signal processing unit, the controller that adds up, o controller, image storage unit, formatting unit and data-interface.
One, telescope
Telescope is mainly used in the collection target emanation, and the picture of target is converged on the focal plane.Telescope of the present utility model is selected the refractive optics telescope for use.The telescopical Specifeca tion speeification selection principle of refractive optics has four.
(1) the focal length design should be satisfied relational expression in conjunction with Pixel Dimensions, satellite flight height and the cloud atlas resolution requirement of CCD device:
If the CCD Pixel Dimensions is 9 μ m, 36000 kilometers of orbit altitudes, with 1 kilometer consideration of central area spatial resolution, focal length can design at 420mm.
(2) angle of visual field of optical system should be not less than territory East and West direction subtended angle, and 12.2 ° can cover the whole territories of China;
(3) under technology and cost permission situation, the aperture of optical system and transmitance should be big as far as possible, improve focal plane illumination, and suggestion F number (ratio in optical system focal length and aperture) selects 1.4;
(4) modulation transfer function of optical system should be moderate, taking cost into account, can be set in about 0.7.
Two, focal plane parts
The focal plane parts comprise CCD device and corresponding power supply circuits and drive circuit.
The CCD device is selected full frame type CCD device, as the GALT of Canadian Dalsa company.The main performance index of GALT is as follows: Pixel Dimensions: 9 μ m * 9 μ m; Pixel quantity: 10240 * 10240; Saturated electrons number: 7 * 10
4Average quantum efficiency (0.4～1.0 μ m): 0.26; Radiosusceptibility: 4.0V/ μ J/cm
2Device frame rate 1Hz; Time for exposure 300ms; Transfer time 700ms; Noise (rms value) 350 μ V (under 22 ℃ of conditions); Modulation transfer function (MTF)＞0.5 (horizontal direction and vertical direction); 20 of output ports.
Except that the CCD device, also need to dispose power supply circuits and drive circuit on the focal plane.Power supply circuits are respectively powered port to the requirement of level and electric current according to the CCD device, provide power supply with the DC-DC transformation device.Drive circuit comprises a programmable logic device and some special purpose driver parts.Programmable logic device receives bit synchronization clock and frame synchronization clock from data-interface, the frame period of imaging is set in 1Hz, time for exposure is set in 0.3s, be set in 0.7s transfer time, through frequency division and logical operation, generate the various clock signals of CCD need of work, as transfering clock, shift clock, the exposure efficient clock, the sampling clock of gated clock and signal processing unit, with transfering clock, shift clock, exposure efficient clock and gated clock send CCD device after sending special-purpose drive circuit to amplify, with sampling clock feed signals processing unit, send add up controller and o controller with transfering clock and exposure efficient clock.
Three, signal processing unit
N signal processing channel arranged, the corresponding signal processing channel of each video-out port of CCD device.For example, as the GALT that adopts above-mentioned Canadian Dalsa company during as the CCD device, signal processing channel has 20 groups, respectively 20 image signal output end mouths of corresponding CCD device.Each signal processing channel comprises that correlated double sampling circuit, amplifier circuit in low noise, clamp circuit and analog-to-digital conversion change circuit.
The effect of correlated-double-sampling is to suppress reset noise, the CCD device is when the output signal electric charge, under the effect of reset clock, earlier output level is returned on the set point, again under the effect of pixel transfering clock, a signal charge bag is converted to voltage signal to be superimposed upon on the set point, so reset values and signal output are influenced by same noise process, therefore, if at each pixel period elder generation sampling reset level, sampled signal output again, two sampled result are subtracted each other the influence that can suppress reset noise greatly.Dalsa company can provide dedicated devices, and other semiconductor company also can provide the correlated-double-sampling device, need consider when specifically selecting for use and factors such as the interface of CCD device, output impedance, clock frequency, ccd output signal rise time.
Because the frequency of CCD device outputting video signal is usually more than 10MHz, the inside comprises a large amount of thermal noises, the demand of amplitude and modulus switching device is inconsistent, for the input of itself and analog to digital converter being complementary and suppressing the influence of thermal noise, need do the low noise amplification to the signal of correlated-double-sampling output.Low noise amplifier circuit can be selected U.S. AD company universal broadband low-noise simulation signal amplifier.According to nyquist sampling theorem, the bandwidth of analog signal amplifier should be set in about two times of clock frequency, so neither influences the vision signal in the base band, can obtain more satisfactory filter effect again.
The effect of clamp circuit is the influence that suppresses dark signal noise.Can adopt general clamp circuit at this, as diode clamping circuit, with output the analog signal clamper to the built-in dark pixel level of this port.
The effect of analog to digital conversion circuit is the digital signal that analog video signal is converted to convenient transmission, the one, because digital signal makes things convenient for Computer Processing, and the 2nd, the fidelity of digital data transmission passage is far above the analog signal transmission passage.Analog to digital conversion circuit can be selected general ADC device, as the ADC device of AD company.Require 14 of digital signal figure places, the highest sample frequency of device surpasses dot frequency more than two times.Why selecting 14 to quantize devices, mainly is in order to reduce the amplitude of quantizing noise, to make things convenient for weak signal to extract, and the highest sample frequency of device is chosen in dot frequency more than two times, in order that do not influence the frequency characteristic of vision signal.
Four, the controller that adds up
Each signal processing channel back connects the controller that adds up.The controller concurrent working that adds up adds up the digital signal of signal processing unit output to video memory.
The controller that adds up can be finished by Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chip.In dsp chip inside, be provided with an adder, comparator and two counters (saturated pixel number count device and output pixel counter).
Adder is done add operation to the content of the output of modulus switching device and the video memory that reads, and operation result send comparator and to image memory stores.
Comparator compares the accumulation result of adder and the saturation value of setting, if surpassed the setting saturation value, then signals to saturated pixel number count device, and saturated pixel number count device content adds one, otherwise does not carry out any operation.
The pixel quantity that output pixel counter records CCD device port has been exported forms the address that video memory is read and write.Under the effect of a pixel transfering clock, read a picture element signal, finish add up and write image storage unit after, the output pixel counter adds one.
The quantity of saturated pixel in the saturated pixel counter records image storage unit.Signal that surpasses saturation value of the every output of accumulator, the saturated pixel counter adds one.
Behind drive circuit indication end exposure, under the control of pixel clock, the data of an analog to digital converter of every input, read the data of an image storage unit, the adder computing once send image storage unit to preserve the result, simultaneously, comparator compares it and saturation threshold, if greater than saturation threshold, the saturated pixel counter adds one, then, the output pixel counter is added one, point to next store byte.
Add up controller logic flow as shown in Figure 2.
Five, o controller
O controller is used for the state of monitoring picture memory data, and whether decision stops the cumulative process of exposure signal, the order of control chart picture output.O controller receives pixel clock, bit synchronization clock and the exposure efficient clock that drive circuit is sent here, reads the data of each image storage unit; For image storage unit provides the gating signal of address signal, be formatting unit output image data.
O controller also dsp chip is realized.Portion is provided with an adder, a comparator, three counters and a decoder within it.Adder is added up total saturated pixel quantity to the content addition of saturated pixel quantity counter in the controller that respectively adds up.Comparator with total saturated pixel quantity with set point relatively starts output procedure when total saturated pixel quantity surpasses set point.In three counters, a counter records exposure frequency; A counter records output pixel quantity; A counter memory image memory cell numbering is done image storage unit and is selected to use in output procedure.Decoder is to the content decoding of memory cell numbering counter, the gating signal of output image memory cell.
Transfer process finishes each time, and the exposure frequency counter adds one, reads the content of saturated pixel counter in the controller that respectively adds up, after adding up, adder compares with set point, if do not surpass set point,, wait for the next frame data to the content zero clearing of output pixel in the controller that respectively adds up.If surpassed set point, with output pixel number count device and the counter O reset of memory cell numbering, subsequently, pixel clock of every input, the output pixel content adds one, as the address, numbers counter and decoder output image memory cell gating signal by memory cell by the output pixel content, the content that reads the byte in corresponding stored unit is sent to the formatting unit to data/address bus.In case output pixel arrives the capacity of image storage unit, the output pixel counter overflows, memory cell numbering rolling counters forward value is added one, begin to export the content of next image storage unit, all memory cell data end of outputs, the content of output exposure frequency counter, last, remove the content of all images memory cell content sum counter, the accumulation that enters the next frame image.
The logic flow of o controller as shown in Figure 3.
Six, video memory
Comprise N image storage unit, each output end of image mouth all disposes an image storage unit.The capacity of each image storage unit is greater than the pixel quantity of its corresponding CCD device port output, and the data width of video memory is not less than the data width of analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) device output.
As the GALT that adopts above-mentioned Canadian Dalsa company during as the CCD device, image storage unit also comprises 20 memories, corresponding 20 tunnel signal processing circuits of difference, the capacity of each memory is 5Mbytes, byte wide 16bits can select reading and writing data speed to be not less than the general anti-irradiation Flash device of 20MBytes/s.
Image storage unit links to each other with data/address bus with address bus, and read-write control signal and reset signal are from add up controller and o controller in the Monitoring and Controlling unit.
The relation of controller, o controller and the image storage unit of adding up as shown in Figure 4.
Seven, formatting unit
The data format that the formatting unit is appointed according to number of channels, transmission rate and the transmission of star ground of transmission, image to video memory output is done unified layout, as embed auxiliary data, parallel-to-serial conversion, data along separate routes and scrambling etc., send data-interface output after the layout.
Eight, data-interface
Receive outside provide frame synchronizing signal and bit synchronization signal and deliver to drive circuit in the parts of focal plane, the view data that the formatting unit is produced is exported to the outside simultaneously.
The content that is not described in detail in the utility model specification belongs to those skilled in the art's known technology.
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1. round-the-clock cloud coverage diagram continuous imaging instrument is characterized in that comprising: telescope, focal plane parts, signal processing unit, the controller that adds up, o controller, video memory, formatting unit and data-interface, wherein:
Telescope: be used to collect target emanation, and the picture of target is converged on the focal plane;
Focal plane parts: comprise full frame type area array CCD and power supply circuits and drive circuit; Full frame type area array CCD is converted to the signal of telecommunication as imageing sensor with light signal; Power supply circuits provide the biasing and the power supply of various voltage and current outputs for CCD; Drive circuit receives outside frame synchronizing signal and the bit synchronization signal that provides through data-interface, and the generation work clock is also delivered to full frame type area array CCD respectively, controller and o controller add up;
Signal processing unit: N signal processing channel arranged, the image output of corresponding one road CCD device of each passage, each signal processing channel includes correlated double sampling circuit, amplifier circuit in low noise, clamp circuit and analog to digital conversion circuit;
Controller adds up: each signal processing channel connects the controller that adds up, the work clock that the controller that adds up transmits according to drive circuit, with the storage that adds up of digital signal corresponding image storage unit in video memory of signal processing channel output, and write down the quantity of saturated pixel in the correspondence image memory cell;
O controller: the work clock that transmits according to drive circuit, the statistics saturated pixel quantity summation in the video memory of controller record that respectively adds up, if saturated pixel quantity summation exceeds preset value, then the content in the video memory is all read and is delivered to the formatting unit;
Video memory: N memory cell arranged, and the dateout of a port of each cell stores CCD device is carried out data access under the control of add up controller and o controller;
Formatting unit:, send data-interface output after the dateout that transmits done unified layout according to the appointment data form of the quantity of transmission channel, transmission rate and the transmission of star ground;
Data-interface: outside frame synchronizing signal and the bit synchronization signal that provides is provided and delivers to drive circuit, to outside output image data.
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