Title :
A new cloud detection method over Tibetan plateau and its surrounding area
Author :
Shanlong Wu ; Bo Zhong ; Weisheng Li ; Qinhuo Liu
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Chongqing Univ. of Posts & Telecomunications, Chongqing, China
Abstract :
To extract information about the Earth´s surface from Earth Observation data, a key processing step is the separation of pixels representing clear-sky observations of land surface from observation influenced by cloud. This paper presents a new method used for MDOIS data over Tibetan plateau and desert. The method for cloud detecting based on the difference on band 6 (apparent reflectance of blue band) and band 31 (bright temperature in thermal infrared band) between cloud and land surface. Experimental results show that the method is feasible.
Keywords :
clouds; remote sensing; Earth Observation data; Earth surface; MDOIS data; Tibetan plateau; cloud detection method; desert; pixels separation; Clouds; Land surface; Land surface temperature; MODIS; Reflectivity; Remote sensing; Snow; MODIS data; Tibetan plateau; cloud detection; desert;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1114-1
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6721215
