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-We use an commercially available fish-eye surveillance camera to collect images of the sky and determine visible cloud amount. The camera is an [[http://www.axis.com|AXIS]][[http://www.axis.com/global/en/products/axis-m3027-pve/| M3027-PVE Fixed Dome Network Camera]] with a common [[http://www.ovt.com/uploads/parts/OV5653.pdf|Omnivision CMOS rgb-sensor]]. Images with a resolution of 800x600 pixels (BMP format) are taken every 20sec. Every pixel above the horizon is investigated for its blue-to-red-ratio and categorized as sky (blue), thin-cloud (light-blue) or cloud (white or gray). Pixels are counted and stored as relative cloud amount as well as palette based png images. From the number of satured pixels around the sun a flag for the visibility of the sun is derived.  +We use an commercially available fish-eye surveillance camera to collect images of the sky and determine cloud amount. The camera is an [[http://www.axis.com|AXIS]] [[http://www.axis.com/global/en/products/axis-m3027-pve/| M3027-PVE Fixed Dome Network Camera]] with a common [[http://www.ovt.com/uploads/parts/OV5653.pdf|Omnivision CMOS rgb-sensor]]. Images with a resolution of 800x600 pixels (BMP format) are taken every 20sec. Every pixel above the horizon is investigated for its blue-to-red-ratio and categorized as sky (blue), thin-cloud (light-blue) or cloud (white or gray). Pixels are counted and stored as relative cloud amount as well as palette based png images. From the number of satured pixels around the sun a flag for the visibility of the sun is derived. 
  
 +The camera replaced a [[instruments:tsi:yes-tsi|YES total sky imager]] which died after some years of operation.
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