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Orfeo ToolBox teams with TensorFlow to remove clouds in optical remote sensing images

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Orfeo ToolBox teams with TensorFlow to remove clouds in optical remote sensing images
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Built on the shoulders of the Orfeo ToolBox and TensorFlow, our software uses deep learning to remove clouds in optical images, using joint SAR/Optical Sentinel images. It is open-source, and comes with pre-trained models. Clouds represent the main issue affecting optical satellite images. Cloud-free scenes available at specific date is crucial in a wide range of monitoring applications. Differently, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors provide orthogonal information with respect to optical satellite, that enable the retrieval of information lost in optical images due to cloud cover. In the context of an increasing availability of both optical and SAR images, thank to the Sentinel constellation, a number of deep learning method have emerged in recent papers. These methods aim to reconstruct optical data polluted by cloud phenomena, exploiting SAR and optical images. We present an open-source software based on the Orfeo ToolBox and TensorFlow, that provide a framework to apply methods processing Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images. Our software comes with a few pre-trained models that can be used out-of-the-box to remove clouds in Sentinel-2 images from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 time series. Track – Education & research Topic – New trends: IoT, Indoor mapping, drones - UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle), Artificial intelligence - machine learning, deep learning-, geospatial data structures, real time raster analysis Level – 2 - Basic. General basic knowledge is required.