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To overcome this problem, this paper designs a novel feature interaction graph convolutional network model that extends the feature fusion process of convolutional neural networks from Euclidean space to non-Euclidean space. The algorithm consists of three main components: remote sensing image feature extraction, feature interaction graph reasoning, and high-resolution feature recovery. The algorithm constructs a feature interaction graph reasoning (FIGR) module to fully interact with low-level and high-level features and then uses a residual graph convolutional network to infer feature higher-order relationships. The network model effectively alleviates the problem of a semantic divide in the feature fusion process, allowing the aggregated features to fuse valuable details and semantic information. The algorithm is designed to better detect clouds with complex cloud layers in remote sensing images with complex cloud shape, size, thickness, and cloud-snow coexistence. Validated on publicly available 38-Cloud and SPARCS datasets and the paper\u2019s own Landsat-8 cloud detection dataset with higher spatial resolution, the proposed method achieves competitive performance under different evaluation metrics. 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