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Cloud cover is one of the major factors which affect the application of GaoFen-2 imagery. Cloud detection in GaoFen-2 imagery is fairly difficult due to the lack of enough infrared bands. This paper presents a cloud detection method for GaoFen-2 multi-spectral imagery based on the radiation transmission model. The scattering coefficient of remote sensing image is estimated by using radiation transmission, and then the cloud mask was obtained by combining the geometric and texture features in high-resolution remote sensing images. Experiments on GaoFen-2 multi-spectral images show that the accuracy of cloud detection is above 94.70%. The method proposed in this paper can effectively reduce the influence of highlighted buildings during cloud detection and achieve a high accuracy for GaoFen-2 imagery cloud detection with less bands. In addition, this paper provides an alternative distinction method for the quantitative researches of thick and thin clouds in optical satellite imagery.
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Wu, Z., He, L., Zhang, Y., Li, J. (2020). Cloud Detection Method in GaoFen-2 Multi-spectral Imagery. In: Wang, L., Wu, Y., Gong, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 6th China High Resolution Earth Observation Conference (CHREOC 2019). CHREOC 2019. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 657. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3947-3_15
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