The viirs cloud mask: Progress in the first year of s-npp toward a common cloud detection scheme

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2441-2456

  Kopp, Thomas J ^a   Thomas, William ^b   Heidinger, Andrew K ^c   Botambekov, Denis ^d   Frey, Richard A ^d   Hutchison, Keith D ^e   Iisager, Barbara D ^e   Brueske, Kurt ^f   Reed, Bonnie ^g  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^f Raytheon Corporation   (United States)

^g Global Science and Technology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; GRANULATION;

CLOUD DETECTION; CLOUD MASKS; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS; INTERMEDIATE PRODUCT; POLAR-ORBITING; PRODUCT SUITE; SENSOR DATA RECORDS; VISIBLE-INFRARED IMAGER-RADIOMETER SUITES;

PIXELS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PIXEL; VIIRS;

EID: 84898412391     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020458     Document Type: Article

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