Automatic cloud detection based on neutrosophic set in satellite images

In this paper, an approach for automatic cloud detection and localization in satellite remote sensing images is introduced. Cloud detection is useful in improving the accuracy of land cover classification in cloudy satellite images. The accurate detection of clouds in satellite images is vital for many atmospheric and terrestrial applications. In this paper we propose an algorithm for automatic cloud detection based on neutrosophic set and wavelet transform. The proposed approach uses both color and texture features for cloud detection. The input image is transformed into Lab color model for extracting the color features and gray scale image for extracting the texture features. Transformed images are converted into neutrosophic domain. An indeterminacy reduction operation is performed for getting better results. Finally a Fuzzy C-means clustering is performed on the true subsets. This gives the cloud detected image. This method is efficient in detecting thick clouds and thin clouds in Landsat images. Result analysis shows that the proposed algorithm can effectively detect the thin cloud. The proposed algorithm gives accurate results in less time complexity.