Nonparametric detection of cloudy pixels in a VHRR NDVI data

Valentine G. Anantharaj; Nicolas H. Younan; Roger L. King

Nonparametric detection of cloudy pixels in a VHRR NDVI data

Valentine G. Anantharaj, Nicolas H. Younan, Roger L. King

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Abstract

Two non-parametric detectors, based on the Sign Test and the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, were applied to 10-day composites of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data to detect cloud contaminated pixels. The performances of these detectors were found to be no better than a detector based on randomly chosen thresholds. The detector thresholds need to account for the climatologically induced biases in the data for each region and time period every year.

Original language	English
Pages	1037-1040
Number of pages	4
State	Published - 2004
Externally published	Yes
Event	2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings: Science for Society: Exploring and Managing a Changing Planet. IGARSS 2004 - Anchorage, AK, United States Duration: Sep 20 2004 → Sep 24 2004

Conference

Conference	2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings: Science for Society: Exploring and Managing a Changing Planet. IGARSS 2004
Country/Territory	United States
City	Anchorage, AK
Period	09/20/04 → 09/24/04

Keywords

AVHRR
Clouds
NDVI
Nonparameteric detection
Signed rank
Vegetation
Wilcoxon

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2004. 1037-1040 Paper presented at 2004 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings: Science for Society: Exploring and Managing a Changing Planet. IGARSS 2004, Anchorage, AK, United States.

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Nonparametric detection of cloudy pixels in a VHRR NDVI data

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