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This comprehensive data analysis revealed that on average over a year of CONUS observations (i) 35.9% were detected with high confidence cloud, with spatio-temporal patterns similar to those observed by previous Landsat 5 and 7 cloud analyses; (ii) 28.2% were high confidence cirrus; (iii) 20.1% were both high confidence cloud and high confidence cirrus; and (iv) 6.9% were detected as high confidence cirrus but low confidence cloud. The results illustrate the potential of the 30 m cloud and cirrus states available in the standard Landsat 8 Level 1 product suite but imply that the historical CONUS Landsat archive has about 7% of undetected cirrus contaminated pixels. Systematic cloud detection commission errors over a minority of highly reflective exposed soil\/sand surfaces were found and it is recommended that caution be taken when using the currently available Landsat 8 cloud data over similar surfaces.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs70100564","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,7]],"date-time":"2015-01-07T12:35:46Z","timestamp":1420634146000},"page":"564-578","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":43,"title":["A One Year Landsat 8 Conterminous United States Study of Cirrus and Non-Cirrus Clouds"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Valeriy","family":"Kovalskyy","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Geospatial Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University, Wecota Hall,  506b Brookings, SD 57007, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1347-0250","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"David","family":"Roy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geospatial Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University, Wecota Hall,  506b Brookings, SD 57007, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"154","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2014.02.001","article-title":"Landsat-8: Science and product vision for terrestrial global change research","volume":"145","author":"Roy","year":"2014","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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