Replacing missing values in the standard Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) radiometric camera-by-camera cloud mask (RCCM) data product

Verstraete, Michel M.; Hunt, Linda A.; De Lemos, Hugo; Di Girolamo, Larry

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-611-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-611-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-611-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Data description paper

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19 Mar 2020

Data description paper |

| 19 Mar 2020

Replacing missing values in the standard Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) radiometric camera-by-camera cloud mask (RCCM) data product

Michel M. Verstraete, Linda A. Hunt, Hugo De Lemos, and Larry Di Girolamo

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Final revised paper (published on 19 Mar 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 11 Jun 2019)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'Affect of singlint?', Catherine Moroney, 24 Jul 2019
- AC1: 'Response to Catherine Moroney's comments and questions on updating the MISR RCCM product', Michel Verstraete, 07 Aug 2019
RC1: 'Review for essd-2019-77', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Sep 2019
- AC2: 'Response to Anonymous Reviewer #1', Michel Verstraete, 25 Sep 2019
  - RC2: 'Author Response To Point 2 of the Initial Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Sep 2019
    - AC3: 'Response to Anonymous Reviewer #2', Michel Verstraete, 30 Sep 2019
EC1: 'editor comment "Replacing Missing Values in the Standard MISR Radiometric Camera-by Camera Cloud Mask (RCCM) Data Product"', Birgit Heim, 16 Jan 2020
- AC4: 'Final comments from the Authors', Michel Verstraete, 31 Jan 2020

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Michel Verstraete on behalf of the Authors (31 Jan 2020) Author's response

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (07 Feb 2020) by Kirsten Elger

AR by Michel Verstraete on behalf of the Authors (11 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (12 Feb 2020) by Kirsten Elger

AR by Michel Verstraete on behalf of the Authors (13 Feb 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

The radiometric camera-by-camera cloud mask product, available for each of the nine cameras of the MISR instrument, contains a variable number of missing values, especially wherever and whenever the instrument is switched from the Global to Local Mode of operation. This paper proposes a simple method for effectively replacing those missing values and demonstrates the performance of the process. MISR data and software tools are obtainable from public domain websites to explore this issue further.