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Accurate angular calibration for every pixel is an essential premise to further cloud analysis and georeferencing. However, most current calibration methods mainly rely on calibration plates, which still remains difficult for simultaneously calibrating visible and infrared binocular cameras, especially with different imaging resolutions. Thus, in this study, we present a simple and convenient angular calibration method for wide field-of-view visible and infrared binocular cameras. Without any extra instruments, the proposed method only utilizes the relation between the angular information of direct sun lights and the projected sun pixel coordinates to compute the geometric imaging parameters of the two cameras. According to the obtained parameters, the pixel-view-angle for the visible and infrared all-sky images is efficiently computed via back projection. Meanwhile, the projected pixel coordinates for the incident lights at any angle can also be computed via reprojection. Experimental results show the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed angular calibration through the error estimation of reprojection and back projection. As a novel application, we successfully achieve visible and infrared binocular image registration at the pixel level after finishing angular calibration, which not only verifies the accuracy of calibration results, but also contributes to further cloud parameter analysis under these two different imaging features. The registration results, to our knowledge, also provide a reference for the current blank in visible and infrared binocular cloud image registration.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13132455","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,23]],"date-time":"2021-06-23T11:28:41Z","timestamp":1624447721000},"page":"2455","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Angular Calibration of Visible and Infrared Binocular All-Sky-View Cameras Using Sun Positions"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1359-697X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wanyi","family":"Xie","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"},{"name":"University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yiren","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"},{"name":"University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yingwei","family":"Xia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhenyu","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1165-8233","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dong","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1049","DOI":"10.5194\/acp-21-1049-2021","article-title":"The CLoud\u2013Aerosol\u2013Radiation Interaction and Forcing: Year 2017 (CLARIFY-2017) measurement campaign","volume":"21","author":"Haywood","year":"2021","journal-title":"Atmos. 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