In extremely clean air in Arctic or mountainous areas, the visibility can be up to 70 kilometres (43 mi) to 100 kilometres (62 mi). However, visibility is often reduced somewhat by air pollution and high humidity. Various weather stations report this as haze (dry) or mist (moist).
Fog and smoke can reduce visibility to near zero. The same can happen in a sandstorm in and near desert areas, or with forest fires.
Heavy rain (such as from a thunderstorm) not only causes low visibility. Blizzards and ground blizzards (blowing snow) are also defined in part by low visibility.
Conventional vision systems are designed to perform in clear weather. Needless to say, in any outdoor application, there is no escape from “bad” weather. Images taken in poor weather conditions suffer from severe color and contrast degradation. Furthermore, this degradation worsens exponentially with distance making it impossible to acquire meaningful images of scenes that are not near the imaging system.
This is where LYYN comes in.
LYYN does not perform magic. It just seems that way sometimes…
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