Cloud detection over desert regions using the 412 nanometer MODIS channel

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2003, Pages

  Hutchison, Keith D ^a   Jackson, John M ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; REFLECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ALGORITHMS; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS;

AUTOMATED CLOUD DETECTION ALGORITHMS; BANDPASS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAND PASS; CLOUD DETECTION; CLOUD DETECTION ALGORITHMS; HIGHLY REFLECTIVE; SAHARA DESERT; SPECIAL PROCESSING; STRONG CONTRAST;

CLOUDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CLOUD; DESERT; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1542650838     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018446     Document Type: Article

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