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Due to the fact that the features of clouds in current cloud-detection methods are mostly manually interpreted and the information in remote-sensing images is complex, the accuracy and generalization of current cloud-detection methods are unsatisfactory. As cloud detection aims to extract cloud regions from the background, it can be regarded as a semantic segmentation problem. A cloud-detection method based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN)\u2014that is, a spatial folding\u2013unfolding remote-sensing network (SFRS-Net)\u2014is introduced in the paper, and the reason for the inaccuracy of DCNN during cloud region segmentation and the concept of space folding\/unfolding is presented. The backbone network of the proposed method adopts an encoder\u2013decoder structure, in which the pooling operation in the encoder is replaced by a folding operation, and the upsampling operation in the decoder is replaced by an unfolding operation. As a result, the accuracy of cloud detection is improved, while the generalization is guaranteed. In the experiment, the multispectral data of the GaoFen-1 (GF-1) satellite is collected to form a dataset, and the overall accuracy (OA) of this method reaches 96.98%, which is a satisfactory result. This study aims to develop a method that is suitable for cloud detection and can complement other cloud-detection methods, providing a reference for researchers interested in cloud detection of remote-sensing images.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13152910","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,25]],"date-time":"2021-07-25T22:07:00Z","timestamp":1627250820000},"page":"2910","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["SFRS-Net: A Cloud-Detection Method Based on Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for GF-1 Remote-Sensing Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Xiaolong","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hong","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chuanzhao","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wentao","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6341-5519","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hao","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ying","family":"Jing","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kaihan","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Li, H., Zheng, H., Han, C., Wang, H., and Miao, M. 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