A procedure for the detection and removal of cloud shadow from AVHRR data over land

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 880-897

  Simpson, James J ^a   Stitt, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000508533     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.673680     Document Type: Article

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