Identification of pixels with stray light and cloud shadow contaminations in the satellite ocean color data processing

Applied Optics

Volumn 52, Issue 27, 2013, Pages 6757-6770

  Jiang, Lide ^a,b   Wang, Menghua ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED IMAGING; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORBITS; PIXELS; SATELLITES; STRAY LIGHT; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

CLOUD CONTAMINATION; DATA PROCESSING SOFTWARE; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; OCEAN COLOR PRODUCTS; SATELLITE OCEAN COLOR; VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITES;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 84884607529     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.52.006757     Document Type: Article

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