Cutting through the smoke with Retinex
This year, most of August was unfit for bike riding due to wildfire smoke in the air. There was a 10 day stretch where the visibility scale reached zero. Standing on the shores at Shilshole, the smoke was so thick that land wasn’t visible across the Puget Sound. I wondered if land was still visible from a digital camera, even though I couldn’t see it. There is an imaging processing technique call Retinex that is used to enhance the dynamic…