An image of a cloud taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard the Aqua satellite (MODIS Characterization Support Team, 2015).
Format
A data frame with 33,750 rows and 3 variables:
- x
x-coordinate
- y
y-coordinate
- z
binary dependent variable: 1 if cloud is present, 0 if no cloud. This variable has been thresholded from the original continuous measurement of radiance supplied by the MODIS instrument
- z_unthresholded
The original continuous measurement of radiance supplied by the MODIS instrument