A CNN Cloud Detector for Panchromatic Satellite Images

  • M. RODRÍGUEZ
  • , J. ANGER
  • , C. DE FRANCHIS
  • , C. HESSEL
  • , G. FACCIOLO
  • , R. GROMPONE
  • , J. M. MOREL

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Abstract

Cloud detection is a crucial step for automatic satellite image analysis. Some cloud detection methods exploit specially designed spectral bands, other base the detection on time series, or on the inter-band delay in push-broom satellites. Nevertheless many use cases occur where these methods do not apply. This paper describes a convolutional neural network for cloud detection in panchromatic and single-frame images. Only a per-image annotation is required, indicating which images contain clouds and which are cloud-free. Our experiments show that, in spite of using less information, the proposed method produces competitive results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIGARSS 2021: 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Proceedings
PublisherIEEE
Pages4964-4967
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781665403696
ISBN (Print)9781665447621
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2021 - Brussels, Belgium
Duration: 12 Jul 202116 Jul 2021

Conference

Conference2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2021
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityBrussels
Period12/07/2116/07/21

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE

Funding

Work partly financed by IDEX Paris-Saclay IDI 2016, ANR-11-IDEX-0003-02, Office of Naval research grant N00014-17-1-2552, DGA Astrid project ≪ filmer la Terre ≫ noANR-17-ASTR-0013-01, MENRT. The Titan V used for this research was donated by the NVIDIA Corporation.

Keywords

  • Cloud detector
  • CNN
  • panchromatic
  • satellite images
  • single-band

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