TZU - HOW CHUShiu, Yi-ShiangYi-ShiangShiuLin, Meng-LungMeng-LungLinChu, Tzu-HowTzu-HowChu2018-09-102018-09-102011http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80955144814&partnerID=MN8TOARShttp://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/365765Cloud cover severely influences the accuracy of land use/cover mapping and biomass estimation with optical satellite imagery. This study integrated automated threshold selection algorithm (ATSA) and region growing to delineate unrecoverable thick cloud. Concerning hazy areas, Fourier analysis was used to generate haze filter to reduce haze interference and recover ground information. The result of thick cloud delineation shows the overall accuracy and kappa statistics are 94.75% and 0.883 separately. For the haze-off result, haze filter improves land cover classification and increases the overall accuracy and kappa statistics by about 4%. With NDVI results, the root-mean-square (RMS) between hazy and clear image is 0.21 while RMS between haze-off and clear image is 0.15. This study demonstrated that cloud processing only using Green, Red, NIR bands without cloud-free reference areas or imagery is sufficient for thick cloud delineation and can achieve some improvement in haze removal. © 2011 IEEE.cloud removal; Fourier analysis; land features interpretation; region growing[SDGs]SDG15Biomass estimation; Cloud cover; Cloud processing; Cloud removal; Fourier; Haze removal; Kappa statistic; Land cover classification; land features interpretation; Land use/cover; Multispectral satellite imagery; Optical satellite imagery; Region growing; Root mean squares; Threshold selection algorithm; Visible and near infrared; Fourier analysis; Geology; Image segmentation; Infrared devices; Remote sensing; Satellite imageryconference paper10.1109/IGARSS.2011.60491852-s2.0-80955144814