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Bibliothèque cloud mask methodology for high resolution remote sensing data combining information from high and medium resolution optical sensors

cloud mask methodology for high resolution remote sensing data combining information from high and medium resolution optical sensors

cloud mask methodology for high resolution remote sensing data combining information from high and medium resolution optical sensors

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Date of publication
Décembre 2011
Resource Language
ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:US201600059830
Pages
588-596

This study presents a novel cloud masking approach for high resolution remote sensing images in the context of land cover mapping. As an advantage to traditional methods, the approach does not rely on thermal bands and it is applicable to images from most high resolution earth observation remote sensing sensors. The methodology couples pixel-based seed identification and object-based region growing. The seed identification stage relies on pixel value comparison between high resolution images and cloud free composites at lower spatial resolution from almost simultaneously acquired dates. The methodology was tested taking SPOT4-HRVIR, SPOT5-HRG and IRS-LISS III as high resolution images and cloud free MODIS composites as reference images. The selected scenes included a wide range of cloud types and surface features. The resulting cloud masks were evaluated through visual comparison. They were also compared with ad-hoc independently generated cloud masks and with the automatic cloud cover assessment algorithm (ACCA). In general the results showed an agreement in detected clouds higher than 95% for clouds larger than 50ha. The approach produced consistent results identifying and mapping clouds of different type and size over various land surfaces including natural vegetation, agriculture land, built-up areas, water bodies and snow.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s)

Sedano, Fernando
Kempeneers, Pieter
Strobl, Peter
Kucera, Jan
Vogt, Peter
Seebach, Lucia
San-Miguel-Ayanz, Jesús

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