Cloud screening in IRS-P4 OCM satellite data: Potential of spatial coherence method in the absence of thermal channel information

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 259-267

  Nair, Sandhya K ^a   Rajeev, K ^a   Parameswaran, K ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Channel ratio method; Cloud screening; Threshold method

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CHLOROPHYLL; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; INFRARED RADIATION; MARINE APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL SENSORS; RADIATION DETECTORS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SEDIMENTS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; THERMAL EFFECTS;

OCEAN SEDIMENTS; SPATIAL COHERENCE TEST (SCT);

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL; CLOUD COVER; DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL DEPTH; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 1542379717     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2003.12.010     Document Type: Article

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