Automated cloud and cloud shadow identification in Landsat MSS imagery for temperate ecosystems

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 169, Issue , 2015, Pages 128-138

  Braaten, Justin D ^a   Cohen, Warren B ^b   Yang, Zhiqiang ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated cloud masking; Change detection; Landsat MSS; Large area mapping; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; ERRORS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INFRARED DEVICES; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AREA MAPPING; CHANGE DETECTION; CLOUD MASKING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; IDENTIFICATION ALGORITHMS; LANDSAT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD COVER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NEAR INFRARED; PIXEL; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84939832601     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.08.006     Document Type: Article

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