Removal of thin clouds using cirrus and QA bands of Landsat-8

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 721-731

  Shen, Yang ^a   Wang, Yong ^a,b   Lv, Haitao ^a   Li, Hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; INFRARED DEVICES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REFLECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; REFLECTANCE VALUES; SPATIAL CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; SUBIMAGES; THIN CIRRUS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; CIRRUS; CLOUD COVER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; PIXEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SPECTRUM;

EID: 84940665740     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.81.9.721     Document Type: Article

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