A multi-temporal method for cloud detection, applied to FORMOSAT-2, VENμS, LANDSAT and SENTINEL-2 images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1747-1755

  Hagolle, O ^a,b   Huc, M ^b   Pascual, D Villa ^a   Dedieu, G ^b  

^a CNES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Cloud detection; Multi temporal; Near infrared; Short wave infrared; Time series; Visible

Indexed keywords

BLUE WAVELENGTH; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD DETECTION; CLOUD MASKS; EARTH SURFACE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LANDSAT; LEVEL 2; LINEAR CORRELATION; MULTI-TEMPORAL; NEAR INFRARED; NEW SATELLITES; OPTICAL IMAGE; REFLECTANCE RATIO; RELATIVE STABILITIES; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SATELLITE MISSION; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; VIEWING ANGLE;

CLOUDS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES;

PIXELS;

CLOUD COVER; FORMOSAT-2; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDSAT; NEAR INFRARED; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TIME SERIES; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 77955321544     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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