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Accurately detecting clouds from remote-sensing images is of great significance to the field of remote sensing. Cloud detection utilizes semantic segmentation to classify remote-sensing images at the pixel level. However, previous studies have focused on the improvement of algorithm performance, and little attention has been paid to the impact of bit depth of remote-sensing images on cloud detection. In this paper, the deep semantic segmentation algorithm UNet is taken as an example, and a set of widely used cloud labeling dataset \u201cL8 Biome\u201d is used as the verification data to explore the relationship between bit depth and segmentation accuracy on different surface landscapes when the algorithm is used for cloud detection. The research results show that when the image is normalized, the effect of cloud detection with a 16-bit remote-sensing image is slightly better than that of an 8-bit remote sensing image; when the image is not normalized, the gap will be widened. However, using 16-bit remote-sensing images for training will take longer. This means data selection and classification do not always need to follow the highest possible bit depth when doing cloud detection but should consider the balance of efficiency and accuracy.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15102548","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,12]],"date-time":"2023-05-12T09:26:13Z","timestamp":1683883573000},"page":"2548","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Effect of Bit Depth on Cloud Segmentation of Remote-Sensing Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1546-2710","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lingcen","family":"Liao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"College of Resource and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"College of Resource and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]},{"given":"Shibin","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"College of Resource and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"379","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2017.03.026","article-title":"Cloud detection algorithm comparison and validation for operational Landsat data products","volume":"194","author":"Foga","year":"2017","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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