Publication Date:
2019-07-12
Description:
Stratocumulus, cumulus, and cirrus clouds were identified on the basis of cloud textural features which were derived from a single high-resolution Landsat MSS NIR channel using a stepwise linear discriminant analysis. It is shown that, using this method, it is possible to distinguish high cirrus clouds from low clouds with high accuracy on the basis of spatial brightness patterns. The largest probability of misclassification is associated with confusion between the stratocumulus breakup regions and the fair-weather cumulus.
Keywords:
METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY
Type:
Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 93; 12663-12
Format:
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