NASA NTRS · 19870027824
The effect of spatial resolution on satellite derived cloud cover
Abstract
The effects of a varying sensor spatial resolution on the cloud fraction derived by reflectance threshold (RT), IR temperature threshold (IRT), hybrid bispectral threshold (HBT) and spatial coherence (SC) methods for cloud retrieval from remotely sensed data were examined experimentally. Eight subscenes from four scenes acquired with the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) in 1982, 1983 and 1985 were used in the trials. All cloud retrieval methods were applied to extract the cloud fraction in all the subscences for comparison with the total cloud amount determined from the TM band 4 data, which had 28.5 m resolution.
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Wielicki, B. A., Minnis, P., Parker, L.. 1986-01-01. The effect of spatial resolution on satellite derived cloud cover. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19870027824
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