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Remote Sens. 2009, 1, 278-299; doi:10.3390/rs1030278 OPEN ACCESS Remote Sensing ISSN 2072-4292 /journal/remotesensing Article A Highly Accurate Classification of TM Data through Correction of Atmospheric Effects Widad Elmahboub 1,*, Frank Scarpace 2 and Bill Smith 3 1 Mathematics Department, Hampton University, Hampton VA 23668, USA 2 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706 USA; E-Mail: scarpace@ 3 NASA Langley Research Center for Atmospheric Science Hampton, VA, 23681 USA; E-Mail: B.smith@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: Widad.elmahboub@; Tel.: +1 757 728 6532/+1 757 223 7776; Fax: +1 757 727 5352 Received: 11 May 2009; in revised form: 29 June 2009 / Accepted: 8 July 2009 / Published: 15 July 2009 Abstract: Atmospheric correction impacts on the accuracy of satellite image-based land cover classification are a growing concern among scientists. In this study, the principle objective was to enhance classification accuracy by minimizing contamination effects from aerosol scattering in Landsat TM images due to the variation in solar zenith angle corresponding to cloud-free earth targets. We have derived a mathematical model for aerosols to compute and subtract the aerosol scattering noise per pixel of different vegetation classes from TM images of Nicolet in north-eastern Wisconsin. An algorithm in C++ has been developed with iterations to simulate, model, and correct for the solar zenith angle influences