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Articles | Volume XLII-2/W7
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W7-1301-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W7-1301-2017
14 Sep 2017
 | 14 Sep 2017

A NOVEL METHOD OF CLOUD AND SHADOW EXTRACTION WITH MULTI-TEMPORAL LANDSAT8 OLI IMAGES

Y. Ni, G. He, and W. Jiang

Keywords: Cloud, Shadow, Brightness difference, Multi-temporal, Landsat\OLI

Abstract. Cloud and Shadow removal is a significant step in remote sensing image process. As we all know, the ground object coverage type of the same area of the remote sensing image has little change in the short term. But for cloud and shadow coverage areas, the ground object coverage type has large change. Therefore, according to the difference between the two Landsat / OLI images caused by changes in the cover, this paper presents a method of extracting clouds and shadows based on differences in luminance values. This method selects two thresholds for the difference of brightness values, and extracts the clouds and shadows respectively, and validates them with random point method, which can obtain high precision of extracting cloud and shadow and satisfy the actual application needs.