Object-based cloud and cloud shadow detection in Landsat imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 118, Issue , 2012, Pages 83-94

  Zhu, Zhe ^a   Woodcock, Curtis E ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud; Cloud shadow; Detection; Fmask; Landsat; Object based

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLOUD LAYERS; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; FMASK; IS DEVELOPMENT; LANDSAT; LANDSAT IMAGERY; LANDSAT IMAGES; LAPSE RATE; NEAR-INFRARED BANDS; NORMALIZED TEMPERATURE; OBJECT BASED; REFERENCE DATA; RULES BASED; SATELLITE SENSORS; SHADOW DETECTIONS; SHADOW MASK; SPECTRAL VARIABILITY; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES;

CLOUDS; ERROR DETECTION; INFRARED DEVICES; LUMINANCE; PIXELS; PROBABILITY; SNOW;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLEAR SKY; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; NEAR INFRARED; PIXEL; PROBABILITY; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

EID: 83455195642     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.10.028     Document Type: Article

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