Cloud detection and classification from multi-spectral satellite data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7475, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Costa, Maria João ^a   Bortoli, Daniele ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clouds; Satellite remote sensing; Spectral bands

Indexed keywords

CLOUD DETECTION; CLOUD MASKS; EARTH RADIATION BUDGET; IBERIAN PENINSULA; METEOSAT-8; MULTI-SPECTRAL; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGES; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL BAND; SPECTRAL BANDS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

CLOUDS;

EID: 70450216993     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.830220     Document Type: Conference Paper

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