Flow velocity tracking in thermal imagery

Abstract

Image data set to the submitted WRR publication ”Evaluating Image Tracking Approaches for Surface Velocimetry with Thermal Tracers“. Lab_Experiments_Data file folder includes eight image sequences acquired in lab experiments. Note that these data are processed after radiometric calibration, which means that the vignetting effect existing in original data has already been removed and the image contrast has also been improved. These processed data are the inputs for PIVlab, PTVlab and LK tracking algorithms. Furthermore, inside of Lab_Experiments_Data file folder, the file folders of 1_8bit_ContrastImprovement, 2_8bit_ContrastImprovement and 3_8bit_ContrastImprovement correspond to the data of laboratory experiments 1-3. Similarly, the file folders of 4_8bit_ContrastImprovement, 5_8bit_ContrastImprovement and 6_8bit_ContrastImprovement correspond to the data of the laboratory experiments 4-6. the file folders of 7_8bit_ContrastImprovement, 8_8bit_ContrastImprovement and 9_8bit_ContrastImprovement correspond to the data of the laboratory experiments 7-9. While Field_Experiments_Data file folder includes two image sequences acquired in field experiments. Note that these data are processed after radiometric calibration, which means that the vignetting effect existing in original data has already been removed and the image contrast has also been improved. These processed data are the inputs for PIVlab, PTVlab and LK tracking algorithms. Furthermore, inside of Field_Experiments_Data file folder, the file folders of 1_8bit_ContrastImprovement and 2_8bit_ContrastImprovement correspond to the data of field experiments 1, 2 respectively. In addition, note that the frame rate of all of the image sequences is 30 HZ.