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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python - Third Edition
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Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python - Third Edition

by Joel Lawhead
September 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
456 pages
10h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Calculating satellite image cloud cover

Satellite images give us a powerful bird's-eye view of the Earth. They are useful for a variety of purposes, which we saw in Chapter 6, Python and Remote Sensing. However, they have one flaw—clouds. As a satellite passes around the Earth and collects imagery, it inevitably images clouds. And in addition to obstructing our view of the Earth, the cloud data can adversely affect remote sensing algorithms by wasting CPU cycles on useless cloud data, or skew the results by introducing unwanted data values.

The solution is to create a cloud mask. A cloud mask is a raster that isolates the cloud data in a separate raster. You can then use that raster as a reference when processing the image in order to avoid ...

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