Fig. 1. Spectral response curves of VIIRS and MODIS sensors

Fig. 2. Land surface reflectance of VIIRS and MODIS sensors in different channels. (a) Blue band; (b) green band; (c) red band; (d) near infrared band

Fig. 3. Distributions of land surface reflectance and brightness temperature for different surface features. (a) Reflectance and brightness temperature; (b) brightness temperature difference

Fig. 4. Three-dimensional distributions of brightness temperature for different surface features

Fig. 5. Flow chart of I-DTCDA algorithm for VIIRS data

Fig. 6. Comparison of cloud detection results between UDTCDA and I-DTCDA algorithms for different surface features. (a) Desert, 2014-09-24; (b) desert ,2014-08-12; (c) bare land, 2014-07-09; (d) bare land,2014-06-23; (e) water, 2014-03-20; (f) water,2014-04-23; (g) snow,2014-06-06; (h) snow, 2014-06-20

Fig. 7. Comparisonof cloud detection results between I-DTCDA and VCM algorithms for different surface features. (a) Desert, 2014-06-04; (b) desert, 2014-07-15; (c) bare land, 2014-05-17; (d) bare land, 2014-07-29; (e) water, 2014-10-23; (f) water, 2014-11-13; (g) snow, 2014-02-06; (h) snow, 2014-11-18

Fig. 8. Comparison in overall accuracy between detected and true cloud concentrations for different cloud detection algorithms

Table 1. Parameters of cloud-detection bands for VIIRS

Table 2. Evaluation results of thin cloud detection accuracy