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Due to the influence of ground objects and other noises, the traditional detection methods are prone to miss or false detection and rough edge segmentation in the detection process. To avoid the defects of traditional methods, Cloud and Cloud Shadow Refinement Segmentation Networks are proposed in this paper. The network can correctly and efficiently detect smaller clouds and obtain finer edges. The model takes ResNet-18 as the backbone to extract features at different levels, and the Multi-scale Global Attention Module is used to strengthen the channel and spatial information to improve the accuracy of detection. The Strip Pyramid Channel Attention Module is used to learn spatial information at multiple scales to detect small clouds better. Finally, the high-dimensional feature and low-dimensional feature are fused by the Hierarchical Feature Aggregation Module, and the final segmentation effect is obtained by up-sampling layer by layer. 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