Articles | Volume 15, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-5181-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-5181-2022
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14 Sep 2022
Research article |  | 14 Sep 2022

Segmentation-based multi-pixel cloud optical thickness retrieval using a convolutional neural network

Vikas Nataraja, Sebastian Schmidt, Hong Chen, Takanobu Yamaguchi, Jan Kazil, Graham Feingold, Kevin Wolf, and Hironobu Iwabuchi

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A convolutional neural network (CNN) is introduced to retrieve cloud optical thickness (COT) from passive cloud imagery. The CNN, trained on large eddy simulations from the Sulu Sea, learns from spatial information at multiple scales to reduce cloud inhomogeneity effects. By considering the spatial context of a pixel, the CNN outperforms the traditional independent pixel approximation (IPA) across several cloud morphology metrics.