Cloud detection method for Chinese moderate high resolution satellite imagery (Conference Presentation)

Bo Zhong; Wuhan Chen; Shanlong Wu; Qinhuo Liu

doi:10.1117/12.2241145

14 December 2016 Cloud detection method for Chinese moderate high resolution satellite imagery (Conference Presentation)

Bo Zhong, Wuhan Chen, Shanlong Wu, Qinhuo Liu

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Proceedings Volume 10001, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XXI; 100010R (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241145
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

Cloud detection of satellite imagery is very important for quantitative remote sensing research and remote sensing applications. However, many satellite sensors don’t have enough bands for a quick, accurate, and simple detection of clouds. Particularly, the newly launched moderate to high spatial resolution satellite sensors of China, such as the charge-coupled device on-board the Chinese Huan Jing 1 (HJ-1/CCD) and the wide field of view (WFV) sensor on-board the Gao Fen 1 (GF-1), only have four available bands including blue, green, red, and near infrared bands, which are far from the requirements of most could detection methods. In order to solve this problem, an improved and automated cloud detection method for Chinese satellite sensors called OCM (Object oriented Cloud and cloud-shadow Matching method) is presented in this paper. It firstly modified the Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment (ACCA) method, which was developed for Landsat-7 data, to get an initial cloud map. The modified ACCA method is mainly based on threshold and different threshold setting produces different cloud map. Subsequently, a strict threshold is used to produce a cloud map with high confidence and large amount of cloud omission and a loose threshold is used to produce a cloud map with low confidence and large amount of commission. Secondly, a corresponding cloud-shadow map is also produced using the threshold of near-infrared band. Thirdly, the cloud maps and cloud-shadow map are transferred to cloud objects and cloud-shadow objects. Cloud and cloud-shadow are usually in pairs; consequently, the final cloud and cloud-shadow maps are made based on the relationship between cloud and cloud-shadow objects. OCM method was tested using almost 200 HJ-1/CCD images across China and the overall accuracy of cloud detection is close to 90%.

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Bo Zhong, Wuhan Chen, Shanlong Wu, and Qinhuo Liu "Cloud detection method for Chinese moderate high resolution satellite imagery (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10001, Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XXI, 100010R (14 December 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2241145

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