Detection of Cloud Cover in Satellite Imagery Using Semantic Segmentation

Abstract

Accurate detection of cloud cover is an important task in the field of Remote Sensing of the environment. Currently, a lot of development is going on in this field by using various methods. Some of the methods apply concepts of machine learning (ML) whereas some apply deep learning. Since the accuracy of ML being lower than deep learning, the latter is preferred. This paper also uses the method of deep learning to detect cloud cover using images of satellite. This paper proposes a modified U-Net based deep learning model for cloud cover detection in satellite images. The model proposed is not as accurate as the original model, but it compensates for it by reducing the time for learning. The accuracy of the model came out to be 89.73%.