Clouds-1000
Description
Clouds-1000 is a dataset of 1000 sky images captured with cameras directed towards the horizon in the north and south directions in an area with a good view of the sky in the UFSC Photovoltaic Laboratory at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in the city of Florianópolis/SC-Brazil. The images were collected every minute over the period of March–October of 2021. Each image was annotated with a polygon tool and classified using 4 cloud types: Cirriform, Cumuliform, Stratiform, and Stratocumuliform, and 1 class representing trees and buildings. This classification is based on the solar radiation absorption characteristics of clouds.
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Steps to reproduce
Nimbus Gazer uses motionEye version 0.41 and Motion version 4.2.2. The system is set to GMT location zone and prevents any camera LEDs from blinking, by disabling all LEDs in the boot configuration file. The system is set to start capturing images at 08:00 GMT and stop at 22:00 GMT. The chosen time interval was defined to capture only images with at least some level of sunlight. The location zone of our research lab is at GMT-3. To install the OS, it is necessary to have at least 32GB of free memory. Our configuration of the motion system is set at the lowest available frame rate of 1 frame per minute to match the time resolution of sensory data from our lab. That means that every minute, an image is captured. Captured images are configured at 2592 x 1944 resolution and are stored in a local directory before being uploaded to the cloud (the default directory is /Nuvens/camtest/). We use the built-in option to upload to a Google Drive directory to upload the images. For more details see the related link below.