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SWIR-NIR tri-color snow


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Here's a tricolor of snow on a window.

 

The filters are:

780BP30 - red channel

1064BP25 - green channel

1500 long pass (but probably 1500-1550 effectively because of the camera gain fall off) - blue channel

 

The color channels are BGR essentially because it made the snow stand out better. Alternative is to have magenta cyan snow in RGB.

 

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visible:

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Individual frames:

 

780nm ("red")

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1064nm ("green")

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1500nm ("blue")

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Just had a play with your colour separation images!

 

Actually, if by RGB you mean 1500=Red, 1064=Green, and 780=Blue, you get cyan snow and a magenta wall.

 

You get magenta snow with 1064=Blue, 1500=Green, 780=Red (GRB ?), which gives a yellowish wall, and 780=Blue, 1500=Green, 1064=Red (RBG?), which gives a cyanish wall.

 

A magenta-ish wall would probably be my choice because it's nearest to the natural red brick, which would give a choice of yellow snow (as in your image) or cyan snow (which you might see as representing coldness).

 

Looks like your neighbour (or is it you?) is using plastic film as double glazing - is that effective at the low temperatures you're obviously experiencing?

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Plastic is placed on windows mainly to cur down the breeze as most seem to leak like crazy. I used to put up plastic, it helped a lot. Now not allowed.

 

Great series Andy.

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Andy, very interesting. That 1500 nm image has beautiful black snow. I personally like to represent things in RGB when doing tri-color images like this one to keep the analogy with the visible spectrum, but then anyone can mess with the colors as he/she likes.

 

Very nice that you are using your TriWave again. You took a SWIR selfie, you imaged snow, you imaged flowers and now there is only one big thing remaining for me: a nice glass of black water.

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Stefano, I tried it the RGB way first, but decided I didn't like the effect. Yellow is visually much brighter than cyan (or magenta for that matter) and it looked very dim to me. The yellow stands out well.
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