Re: [Flightgear-devel] estimating visibility

2008-02-21 Thread Thomas Förster
Am Mittwoch 20 Februar 2008 schrieb Mike Schuh: I wonder if a multiple regression against several factors would turn up anything useful: vis = f(humidity,temp,wind,ceiling,elevation,sun_angle,ground_cover) Not sure how to incorporate sun_angle for values 0 (i.e., night). Moon?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] estimating visibility

2008-02-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Mike Schuh -- Wednesday 20 February 2008: Not sure how to incorporate sun_angle for values 0 (i.e., night). Moon? I doubt that the moon has much influence (although it slightly deforms the Earth surface). The sun angle effect is already contained in the other values, as well as in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] estimating visibility

2008-02-21 Thread Thomas Förster
Thanks for the processing chain. I'll see if I find some time to look into this in the weekend. Lots of other data processing (ant distributions, butterfly breathing, etc.) on the bench already... :) My main idea is not to develop a complicated model. I rather try to find some complicated

Re: [Flightgear-devel] estimating visibility

2008-02-21 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Thomas Förster -- Thursday 21 February 2008: My main idea is not to develop a complicated model. I rather try to find some complicated filtering in the hope, that the remaining data gives a simple model that's better than the conservative setting. Ahh, excellent. That sounds even better.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] estimating visibility

2008-02-21 Thread Ampere K.
On February 20, 2008 05:36:16 pm Mike Schuh wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 20 February 2008: One effect that could also be considered is wind speed. Hmm ... and temperature. Very hot should probably reduce the visibility as well, even if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] estimating visibility

2008-02-20 Thread Mike Schuh
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 20 February 2008: One effect that could also be considered is wind speed. Hmm ... and temperature. Very hot should probably reduce the visibility as well, even if it's dry. Have to play a bit more with temp/visibility,