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Generally, in order to retrieve the two-dimensional SO2 emission rates of a source, e.g., the slant column density of a plume emitted by a stack, one needs to acquire four images with UV cameras: two images including the emitting stack at wavelengths with high and negligible absorption features (\u03bbon\/off), and two additional images of the background intensity behind the plume, at the same wavelengths as before. However, the true background intensity behind a plume is impossible to obtain from a remote measurement site at rest, and thus, one needs to find a way to approximate the background intensity. Some authors have presented methods to estimate the background behind the plume from two emission images. However, those works are restricted to dealing with clear sky, or almost homogeneously illuminated days. The purpose of this work is to present a new approach using background images constructed from emission images by an automatic plume segmentation and interpolation procedure, in order to estimate the light intensity behind the plume. We compare the performance of the proposed approach with the four images method, which uses, as background, sky images acquired at a different viewing direction. The first step of the proposed approach involves the segmentation of the SO2 plume from the background. In clear sky days, we found similar results from both methods. However, when the illumination of the sky is non homogeneous, e.g., due to lateral sun illumination or clouds, there are appreciable differences between the results obtained by both methods. We present results obtained in a series of measurements of SO2 emissions performed on a cloudy day from a stack of an oil refinery in Montevideo City, Uruguay. The results obtained with the UV cameras were compared with scanning DOAS measurements, yielding a good agreement.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9060517","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,5,24]],"date-time":"2017-05-24T12:13:11Z","timestamp":1495627991000},"page":"517","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Plume Segmentation from UV Camera Images for SO2 Emission Rate Quantification on Cloud Days"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Mat\u00edas","family":"Osorio","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de F\u00edsica, Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda, Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica, J. Herrera y Reissig 565, Montevideo 11200, Uruguay"}]},{"given":"Nicol\u00e1s","family":"Casaballe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto de F\u00edsica, Facultad de Ingenier\u00eda, Universidad de la Rep\u00fablica, J. 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