Automated cloud, cloud shadow, and snow detection in multitemporal Landsat data: An algorithm designed specifically for monitoring land cover change

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 152, Issue , 2014, Pages 217-234

  Zhu, Zhe ^a   Woodcock, Curtis E ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Cloud; Cloud shadow; Fmask; Landsat; Multitemporal; Snow; Tmask

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; PIXELS; REFLECTION; SNOW;

CHANGE; CLOUD SHADOWS; FMASK; LANDSAT; MULTI-TEMPORAL; TMASK;

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD COVER; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; CLOUD; MONITORING; SNOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 84903937476     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.06.012     Document Type: Article

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