Satellite Cloud Image Standardization

Howard J. Schultz; Ronald G. Isaacs

doi:10.1117/12.942640

25 January 1987 Satellite Cloud Image Standardization

Howard J. Schultz, Ronald G. Isaacs

Proceedings Volume 0846, Digital Image Processing and Visual Communications Technologies in Meteorology; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.942640
Event: Cambridge Symposium on Optics in Medicine and Visual Image Processing, 1987, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

A method is presented for transforming cloud images from one spaceborne sensor format to another. The procedure, known as Cloud Image Standardization (CIS), uses the known spatial resolution and spectral response properties of a sensor and the modeled angular scattering and emittance properties of various cloud types to derive spatial and spectral resampling relationships. The CIS system can be used to simulate cloud images of a supported sensor from cloud images of other supported sensors. The supported sensors potentially include DMSP OLS, GOES VISSR, NOAA AVHRR, and Landsat MSS and TM. Image standardization enables direct comparison of cloud images from different sensors and provides an interface applicable to the assimilation of nonstandard imagery data by specialized applications models. Since images processed by the CIS system appear to have been generated by the same sensor, there is an effective increase in the global coverage of cloud image data. Applications are presented to cloud field transformations using Landsat MSS and GOES image data.

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Howard J. Schultz and Ronald G. Isaacs "Satellite Cloud Image Standardization", Proc. SPIE 0846, Digital Image Processing and Visual Communications Technologies in Meteorology, (25 January 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.942640

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