The invention provides a cloud and cloud shadow information detection and extraction method based on a Landsat8
remote sensing image. Compared with a traditional cloud and cloud shadow
information extraction method, the method innovatively constructs a land
brightness temperature threshold empirical
linear model according to the three spectral characteristics of high brightness, high whiteness and low
brightness temperature of a cloud layer, refines a land
brightness temperature threshold, extracts thick cloud, and improves the cloud shadow extraction efficiency. Extracting thin cloud by using a
haze optimization transformation method and a
cirrus cloud waveband threshold method, and performing superposition
processing on the extracted thick cloud information and thin cloud information to obtain cloud information C; the method comprises the following steps: extracting cloud shadow information CS by using a threshold method by using an operation relationship between a
darkness index (DI) and a spectrum, constructing an empirical
linear model between a mountain shadow threshold and a
solar altitude, and removing false information in the cloud shadow information CS caused by the mountain shadow to obtain refined cloud shadow information CS '. And finally, standardizing the shape of the extracted cloud and cloud shadow information by using a
corrosion and expansion method, and eliminating holes, thereby improving the precision of the cloud C and cloud shadow information CS '. Compared with a traditional method, the method has the advantages that the extraction precision of thick cloud is improved by constructing the land brightness temperature threshold empirical
linear model, and the extraction precision of cloud shadow is improved by constructing the mountain shadow threshold empirical linear model. Therefore, the method has the advantages of rapidness, high efficiency, convenience and high precision.