Removal of optically thick clouds from multi-spectral satellite images using multi-frequency SAR data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2973-3006

  Eckardt, Robert ^a   Berger, Christian ^a   Thiel, Christian ^a   Schmullius, Christiane ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud cover; Data fusion; Image reconstruction; Missing information; SAR

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL DATUM; CLOUD COVER; MISSING INFORMATION; MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE IMAGE; RECONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES; SAR; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STATISTICAL EVALUATION;

DATA FUSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84880405528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5062973     Document Type: Article

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