The application discloses a method for estimating power generation of a
nuclear power plant by using a space-based
thermal infrared remote sensing warm water discharge area map, and comprises the following steps: obtaining a
thermal infrared image of a thermal imager of a target power
plant adjacent
water area, performing
radiation calibration, calculating the
brightness temperature of each
wave band, and inversely calculating the water surface temperature field by using a
split window algorithm; constructing a
water body background temperature field and calculating a temperature rise field; performing threshold segmentation according to the temperature rise field, introducing multi-
wave band consistency constraints and connected form prior constraints, generating a
warm water discharge area map, and extracting a characteristic parameter set of the
warm water discharge; combining flow field information and a
water body heat
exchange model, calculating the theoretical heat discharge power of the warm
water discharge according to the characteristic parameter set, further inversely calculating the actual heat discharge power; establishing a mapping relationship between the actual heat discharge power and the unit
electric power, inversely calculating the unit
electric power, and performing time integration on the obtained unit
electric power in a given time interval to obtain the power generation. The application can realize continuous, wide-area and traceable power generation
estimation by using a space-based thermal imager.