Automated detection and removal of cloud shadows on HICO images

Ruhul Amin; Richard Gould; Weilin Hou; Zhongping Lee; Robert Arnone

doi:10.1117/12.887761

4 May 2011 Automated detection and removal of cloud shadows on HICO images

Ruhul Amin, Richard Gould, Weilin Hou, Zhongping Lee, Robert Arnone

Proceedings Volume 8030, Ocean Sensing and Monitoring III; 803004 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.887761
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Clouds cause a serious problem for optical satellite sensors. Clouds not only conceal the ground, they also cast shadows, which cause either a reduction or total loss of information in an image, by reducing the illumination falling on the shadowed pixels. Ocean color bio-optical inversion algorithms rely on measurements of remote sensing reflectance (R_rs (λ )) at each pixel. If shadows are not removed properly across a scene, erroneous R_rs (λ) values will be calculated for the shadowed pixels, leading to incorrect retrievals of ocean color products such as chlorophyll. The cloud shadow issue becomes significant especially for high-resolution sensors such as the Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO). On the other hand, the contrast of pixels in and outside a shadow provides opportunities to remove atmospheric contributions for ocean color remote sensing. Although identifying cloud is relatively straightforward using simple brightness thresholds, identifying their shadows especially over water is quite challenging because the brightness of the shadows is very close to the brightness of neighboring sunny regions especially in deep waters. In this study, we present automated procedures for our recently proposed cloud shadow detection technique called the Cloud Shadow Algorithm (CSA) and Lee et al. (2007) cloud and shadow atmospheric correction algorithm. We apply both automated procedures to HICO imagery and show examples of the results.

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Ruhul Amin, Richard Gould, Weilin Hou, Zhongping Lee, and Robert Arnone "Automated detection and removal of cloud shadows on HICO images", Proc. SPIE 8030, Ocean Sensing and Monitoring III, 803004 (4 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.887761

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