Cloud masking of SeaWiFS images over coastal waters using spectral variability

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12246-12258

  Nordkvist, Karin ^a,b,c   Loisel, Hubert ^a,b,c   Gaurier, Lucile Duforêt ^a,b,c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b Laboratoire d Océanologie et de Géosciences   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COASTAL WATERS; MARINE REFLECTANCE; MARITIME AEROSOLS; NEAR INFRA RED; NUMERICAL SENSITIVITY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SPECTRAL VARIABILITY; SUSPENDED MATTERS;

INFRARED DEVICES;

EID: 67749095016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012246     Document Type: Article

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