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Nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) absorption correction of the sulfur dioxide (SO₂) camera was demonstrated for the first time. The key to improving the measurement accuracy is to combine a differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) instrument with the SO₂ camera for the real-time NO₂ absorption correction and aerosol scattering correction. This method performs NO₂ absorption correction by the correlation between the NO₂ column density measurement of the DOAS and the NO₂ optical depth of the corresponding channel from the SO₂ camera at a narrow wavelength window around 310 and 310 nm. The error of correction method is estimated through comparison with only using the second channel of the traditional SO₂ camera to correct for aerosol scattering and it can be reduced by 11.3% after NO₂ absorption corrections. We validate the correction method through experiments and demonstrate it to be of greatly improved accuracy. The result shows that the ultraviolet (UV) SO₂ camera system with NO₂ absorption corrections appears to have great application prospects as a technology for visualized real-time monitoring of SO₂ emissions.