On the determination of haze levels from Landsat data

The paper describes two methods for determining haze levels (specified by haze optical depth at a wavelength of 0.5 microns) from Landsat multispectral scanner data. The channel correlation method relates the haze level to the y-intercept of the regression line through a plot of the data in the plane of the multispectral channels MSS 4 and MSS 5. The minimum value method relates haze level to the minimum value of individual lines in the MSS 4 data set.