Areas covered by cloud are essentially obscured in the visible and near-infrared wavelengths, resulting in gaps in the data. Processing artifacts, such as striping, are mentioned here for completeness as the data in this study are not affected strongly by this problem, but in our experience, some scenes are affected more severely than others. We use a cubic convolution approach, rather than a nearest neighbor algorithm at the initial aft to nadir coarse coregistration stage to reduce striping