• DocumentCode
    3517956
  • Title

    Cloud detection and removal in satellite images for tropical regions

  • Author

    Cai, Zhenlei ; Ho, Anthony T S

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Inst., Singapore
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    14-18 Oct 1996
  • Firstpage
    1174
  • Abstract
    We present a practical approach for detecting and localizing clouds in satellite remote sensing images. Cloud detection is useful in improving the accuracy of land cover classification when there are clouds present in the images. After detection and removal of clouds we can selectively merge classification results from two temporally separate images of the same area to minimise the cloud effect. We emphasise the ease of implementation of the algorithm so that practitioners can easily adapt the method for their own use
  • Keywords
    atmospheric techniques; clouds; geophysical signal processing; image classification; remote sensing; classification results merging; cloud detection; cloud effect; cloud removal; land cover classification; satellite images; temporally separate images; tropical regions; Algorithm design and analysis; Clouds; Earth; Image processing; Image segmentation; Labeling; Pixel; Remote sensing; Satellites; Software packages;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Signal Processing, 1996., 3rd International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-2912-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSIGP.1996.566334
  • Filename
    566334