Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6949685 | ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | 2014 | 15 Pages |
Abstract
Cloud cover is generally present in remotely sensed images, which limits the potential of the images for ground information extraction. Therefore, removing the clouds and recovering the ground information for the cloud-contaminated images is often necessary in many applications. In this paper, an effective method based on similar pixel replacement is developed to solve this task. A missing pixel is filled using an appropriate similar pixel within the remaining region of the target image. A multitemporal image is used as the guidance to locate the similar pixels. A pixel-offset based spatio-temporal Markov random fields (MRF) global function is built to find the most suitable similar pixel. The proposed method was tested on MODIS and Landsat images and their land surface temperature products, and the experiments verify that the proposed method can achieve highly accurate results and is effective at dealing with the obvious atmospheric and seasonal differences between multitemporal images.
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Authors
Qing Cheng, Huanfeng Shen, Liangpei Zhang, Qiangqiang Yuan, Chao Zeng,