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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIX-B3-2026-1487-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Fast Cloud Property Retrieval from TROPOMI O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;-A Band Observations Using a DISAMAR-Based Neural Network Framework</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Xie</surname>
<given-names>Tao</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Xiaoyun</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>Wenmei</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chen</surname>
<given-names>Yixiang</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Ping</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Stammes</surname>
<given-names>Piet</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tilstra</surname>
<given-names>Gijsbert</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tuinder</surname>
<given-names>Olaf</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sneep</surname>
<given-names>Maarten</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6887-5653</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lu</surname>
<given-names>Feng</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>School of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Jiangsu, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>R&amp;D Satellite Observations (RDSW), Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), the Netherlands</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), Jiangsu, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Key Laboratory of Radiometric Calibration and Validation for Environmental Satellites, National Satellite Meteorological Center (National Center for Space Weather), Innovation Centre for Feng Yun Meteorological Satellite (FYSIC), China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100049, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>31</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>XLIX-B3-2026</volume>
<fpage>1487</fpage>
<lpage>1492</lpage>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Tao Xie et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<abstract>
<p>With the improved spatial resolution of satellite spectrometers such as TROPOMI, more homogeneous cloudy scenes can be identified at the pixel scale, making scattering-cloud retrievals increasingly worthwhile for satellite cloud processing. DISAMAR provides physically rigorous and spectrally accurate simulations for cloud retrieval from oxygen absorption bands, but its line-by-line radiative transfer calculations are computationally too expensive for efficient large-scale application. In this study, we develop a fast cloud retrieval framework for TROPOMI O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;-A band observations by combining DISAMAR with neural-network emulators. The method supports the joint retrieval of cloud optical thickness (COT) and cloud optical centroid pressure (CLP) within an optimal-estimation framework. The neural networks are trained offline using a synthetic dataset generated by DISAMAR under representative cloud, surface, meteorological, and viewing conditions. The dataset contains about 400,000 cases, with meteorological inputs from ERA5 and observation geometries sampled from a TROPOMI orbit; about 70% of the cases correspond to land and 30% to water surfaces. The networks emulate both top-of-atmosphere reflectance and its derivatives with respect to the retrieval state variables, thereby replacing the most time-consuming part of the forward model. Initial experiments for fully cloudy O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;-A cases show that the proposed framework reproduces the main spectral and retrieval behaviour of the DISAMAR-based scheme while reducing the runtime from several hours per case to a few seconds. The proposed framework provides a practical pathway toward fast and physically consistent retrievals of cloud optical properties from TROPOMI O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;-A observations.</p>
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