Articles | Volume 17, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-7027-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-7027-2024
Research article
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16 Dec 2024
Research article |  | 16 Dec 2024

3D cloud masking across a broad swath using multi-angle polarimetry and deep learning

Sean R. Foley, Kirk D. Knobelspiesse, Andrew M. Sayer, Meng Gao, James Hays, and Judy Hoffman

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A-Train Cloud Segmentation Dataset Sean Foley https://seabass.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/NASA_GSFC/ATCS/ATCS_dataset/

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Short summary
Measuring the shape of clouds helps scientists understand how the Earth will continue to respond to climate change. Satellites measure clouds in different ways. One way is to take pictures of clouds from multiple angles and to use the differences between the pictures to measure cloud structure. However, doing this accurately can be challenging. We propose a way to use machine learning to recover the shape of clouds from multi-angle satellite data.