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Visible and thermal infrared images of Mechanical Draft Cooling Towers at Savannah River National Laboratory
Tracing Radiant Energy
Dr. Carl Salvaggio of the Center for Imaging Science in the College of Science studies the fundamental physical phenomenology that produce detected signals in image data. In a project being carried out for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL), Dr. Salvaggio and other researchers in the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Laboratory at RIT are addressing the difficult problem of tracing the radiant energy through mechanical draft cooling towers. It was discovered by this research team that modeling the full bidirectional reflectance distribution function was a necessary task to predict the total energy being released by these towers. Knowing this energy dissipation rate will help analysts utilize thermal infrared imagery to predict the operational state of power plants and other facilities.
