An automated, dynamic threshold cloud-masking algorithm for daytime AVHRR images over land

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1682-1694

  Di Vittorio, Alan V ^b   Emery, William J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR); Cloud and surface parameter retrieval (CASPR); Cloud masking; Clouds from AVHRR (CLAVR); Dynamic threshold

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; IMAGE SENSORS; REMOTE SENSING;

CLOUD MASKING;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0036699037     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.802455     Document Type: Article

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