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Many studies of haze recognition algorithms are based on observations from space-borne imagers, such as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) and the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI). Since the haze pixels are frequently misidentified as clouds in the official cloud detection products, these algorithms mainly focus on recovering them from clouds. There are just a few studies that provide a more precise distinction between haze and clear pixels. The Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer II (MERSI-II), the imager aboard the FY-3D satellite, has similar bands to those of MODIS, hence, it appears to have equivalent application potential. This study proposes a novel MERSI haze mask (MHAM) algorithm to directly categorize haze pixels in addition to cloudy and clear ones. This algorithm is based on the fact that cloudy and clear pixels exhibit opposing visible channel reflectance and infrared channel brightness temperature characteristics, and clear pixels are relative brighter, and as well as this, there is a positive difference between their apparent reflectance values, at 0.865 \u03bcm and 1.64 \u03bcm, respectively, over bright surfaces. Compared with the Aqua\/MODIS and MERSI-II official cloud detection products, these two datasets treat the dense aerosol loadings as certain clouds, possible clouds and possible clear pixels, and they treat distinguished light or moderate haze as possible clouds, possible clear pixels and certainly clear pixels, while the novel algorithm is capable of demonstrating the haze region\u2019s boundary in a manner that is more substantially consistent with the true color image. Using the PM2.5 (particle matter with a diameter that is less than 2.5 \u03bcm) data monitored by the national air quality monitoring stations as the test source, the results indicated that when the ground-based PM2.5 \u2265 35 \u03bcg\/cm3 is considered to be haze days, the samples with the recognition rate that is higher than 85% accounted for 72.22% of the total samples. When PM2.5 \u2265 50 \u03bcg\/cm3 is considered as haze days, 83.33% of the samples had an identification rate that was higher than 85%. A cross-comparison with similar research methods showed that the method proposed in this study had better sensitivity to bright surface clear and haze areas. This study will provide a haze mask for subsequent quantitative inversion of aerosol characteristics, and it will further exert the application benefits of MERSI-II instrument aboard on FY3D satellite.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15020438","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,12]],"date-time":"2023-01-12T03:11:02Z","timestamp":1673493062000},"page":"438","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["A Novel Algorithm of Haze Identification Based on FY3D\/MERSI-II Remote Sensing Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Yidan","family":"Si","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for Environmental Satellites, National Satellite Meteorological Center (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China"},{"name":"Innovation Center for FengYun Meteorological Satellite (FYSIC), Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2390-899X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lin","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for Environmental Satellites, National Satellite Meteorological Center (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China"},{"name":"Innovation Center for FengYun Meteorological Satellite (FYSIC), Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7331-1905","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhaojun","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for Environmental Satellites, National Satellite Meteorological Center (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China"},{"name":"Innovation Center for FengYun Meteorological Satellite (FYSIC), Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9083-0045","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Leiku","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454003, China"}]},{"given":"Fu","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre (CEMC), Beijing 100081, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather (LaSW), Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"given":"Na","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for Environmental Satellites, National Satellite Meteorological Center (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China"},{"name":"Innovation Center for FengYun Meteorological Satellite (FYSIC), Beijing 100081, China"}]},{"given":"Xingying","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for Environmental Satellites, National Satellite Meteorological Center (National Center for Space Weather), China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China"},{"name":"Innovation Center for FengYun Meteorological Satellite (FYSIC), Beijing 100081, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"7","article-title":"A Discussion on Difference between Haze and Fog and Warning of Ash Haze Weather","volume":"31","author":"Wu","year":"2005","journal-title":"Meteorol. 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