An Introduction to Machine and Deep Learning Methods for Cloud Masking Applications

A Anzalone, A Pagliaro, A Tutone - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Cloud cover assessment is crucial for meteorology, Earth observation, and environmental
monitoring, providing valuable data for weather forecasting, climate modeling, and remote …

Convolutional neural networks for multispectral image cloud masking

G Mateo-García, L Gómez-Chova… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have proven to be state of the art methods for many
image classification tasks and their use is rapidly increasing in remote sensing problems …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking deep learning models for cloud detection in Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 images

D López-Puigdollers, G Mateo-García… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The systematic monitoring of the Earth using optical satellites is limited by the presence of
clouds. Accurately detecting these clouds is necessary to exploit satellite image archives in …

High-quality cloud masking of Landsat 8 imagery using convolutional neural networks

MJ Hughes, R Kennedy - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The Landsat record represents an amazing resource for discovering land-cover changes
and monitoring the Earth's surface. However, making the most use of the available data …

Convolutional neural networks for detecting challenging cases in cloud masking using Sentinel-2 imagery

V Kristollari, V Karathanassi - Eighth international conference …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Cloud contamination represents a large obstacle for mapping the earth's surface using
remotely sensed data. Therefore, cloudy pixels should be identified and eliminated before …

Cloud Mask Intercomparison eXercise (CMIX): An evaluation of cloud masking algorithms for Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2

S Skakun, J Wevers, C Brockmann, G Doxani… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cloud cover is a major limiting factor in exploiting time-series data acquired by optical
spaceborne remote sensing sensors. Multiple methods have been developed to address the …

CloudFCN: Accurate and robust cloud detection for satellite imagery with deep learning

A Francis, P Sidiropoulos, JP Muller - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cloud masking is of central importance to the Earth Observation community. This paper
deals with the problem of detecting clouds in visible and multispectral imagery from high …

Estimation of the accuracy of cloud masking algorithms using Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope data

AV Tarasov - Mod. Probl. Remote Sens. Earth Space, 2020 - jr.rse.cosmos.ru
Nowadays, many automated satellite-based monitoring systems (eg for forestry or
agriculture) widely use the images from Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope satellites, which …

An Overview of MLCommons Cloud Mask Benchmark: Related Research and Data

G von Laszewski, R Gu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.04799, 2023 - arxiv.org
Cloud masking is a crucial task that is well-motivated for meteorology and its applications in
environmental and atmospheric sciences. Its goal is, given satellite images, to accurately …

Cloud masking technique for high-resolution satellite data: an artificial neural network classifier using spectral & textural context

RMV Malladi, A Nizami, MS Mahakali… - Journal of the Indian …, 2019 - Springer
Cloud masking is a very important application in remote sensing and an essential pre-
processing step for any information derivation applications. It helps in estimation of usable …