Abstract

The cirrus clouds is one of the objects existing in the troposphere how play an important role in the process of climate change. The research presented in this paper is aimed to present a model for detecting of clouds, presenting theirs distributions and giving a measure about altitudes by a stereovision system. Two cameras simultaneously take images of the same scene at two different observations sites. The principle consists to identify in both images matched pairs of points corresponding to physical points in the cloud. The observational program are conducted in France in June 2014.

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