Cloud shadow detection under arbitrary viewing and illumination conditions

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 972-976

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GEOMETRY; LIGHTING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER; CLOUD HEIGHT; CLOUD SHADOW; SUN CLOUD SATELLITE GEOMETRY;

CLOUDS;

EID: 0033907728     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.841979     Document Type: Article

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