Use of field reflectance data for crop mapping using airborne hyperspectral image

Recent developments in hyperspectral remote sensing technologies enable acquisition of image with high spectral resolution, which is typical to the laboratory or in situ reflectance measurements. There has been an increasing interest in the utilization of in situ reference reflectance spectra for rapid and repeated mapping of various surface features. Here we examined the prospect of classifying airborne hyperspectral image using field reflectance spectra as the training data for crop mapping. Canopy level field reflectance measurements of some important agricultural crops, i.e. alfalfa, winter barley, winter rape, winter rye, and winter wheat collected during four consecutive growing seasons are used for the classification of a HyMAP image acquired for a separate location by (1) mixture tuned matched filtering (MTMF), (2) spectral feature fitting (SFF), and (3) spectral angle mapper (SAM) methods. In order to answer a general research question “what is the prospect of using independent reference reflectance spectra for image classification”, while focussing on the crop classification, the results indicate distinct aspects. On the one hand, field reflectance spectra of winter rape and alfalfa demonstrate excellent crop discrimination and spectral matching with the image across the growing seasons. On the other hand, significant spectral confusion detected among the winter barley, winter rye, and winter wheat rule out the possibility of existence of a meaningful spectral matching between field reflectance spectra and image. While supporting the current notion of “non-existence of characteristic reflectance spectral signatures for vegetation”, results indicate that there exist some crops whose spectral signatures are similar to characteristic spectral signatures with possibility of using them in image classification.     

从高光谱遥感影像提取植被信息

遥感可以快速有效地监测大面积植被的种类、特性、长势等各类信息。高光谱遥感数据因其特有的高光谱分辨率特性使其在植被生态环境领域具有极大的应用潜力。植被信息作为生态环境评价的重要参数对区域生态环境的监测和建设具有重要的意义。本文基于云南省鹤庆县北衙的高光谱遥感数据用SAM方法对植被信息进行了提取,参考光谱使用ASD光谱辐射仪采集的植被光谱曲线。文中对高光谱遥感影像的辐射定标和大气校正进行了研究,针对影响光谱辐射仪采集的主要因素采取了相应的措施,并对光谱曲线分类及参考光谱曲线的选取进行了研究。将选取出的参考光谱曲线与大气校正后的遥感影像进行SAM匹配提取出植被信息,经过与实地调查资料比较并计算总体精度和kappa系数,计算结果达到预期精度。最后将分类结果转换为矢量图,经过投影转换为大地坐标后制作出北衙植被分布图。     

小麦冠层理化参量的高光谱遥感反演试验研究

以国产成像光谱仪所获高光谱遥感数据为基础，根据田间同步采样数据建立的基于反射光谱特征的小麦冠层生物物理和生物化学估计模型，实现了用航空高光谱遥感数据对田间小麦冠层理化参量的整体反演。结果表明：用高光谱遥感方法估计小麦冠层理化参量是可行的；以理化参数为“波段”的数字图像及其处理，为农学家以理化参量的空间分布及其差异解释作物产量空间分布差异和研究作物生态生理机理提供了新的手段。     

Utility of Hyperspectral Data for Potato Late Blight Disease Detection

The study was carried out to investigate the utility of hyperspectral reflectance data for potato late blight disease detection. The hyperspectral data was collected for potato crop at different level of disease infestation using hand-held spectroradiometer over the spectral range of 325–1075 nm. The data was averaged into 10-nm wide wavebands, resulting in 75 narrowbands. The reflectance curve was partitioned into five regions, viz. 400–500 nm, 520–590 nm, 620–680 nm, 770–860 nm and 920–1050 nm. The notable differences in healthy and diseased potato plants were noticed in 770–860 nm and 920–1050 nm range. Vegetation indices, namely NDVI, SR, SAVI and red edge were calculated using reflectance values. The differences between the vegetation indices for plants at different levels of disease infestation were found highly significant. The optimal hyperspectral wavebands to discriminate the healthy plants from disease infested plants were 540, 610, 620, 700, 710, 730, 780 and 1040 nm whereas upto 25% infestation could be discriminated using reflectance at 710, 720 and 750 nm.     

Comparison of Different Mapping Techniques for Classifying Hyperspectral Data

Hyperion is a space borne sensor which provides powerful tool in discriminating land cover features including urban area and in preparation of urban maps. It gives hyperspectral images in 242 bands within 400?nm to 2,500?nm wavelength range with 10?nm band-width. The Hyperion image in raw form is badly affected with several atmospheric effects which cause haziness. In this study hyperspectral image is atmospherically corrected by using FLAASH model of ENVI. After atmospheric correction the urban area was mapped using the spectral endmember collected by the procedure which includes minimum noise fraction (MNF), pixel purity index (PPI) and n-dimensional visualization in ENVI software. The aim of this study is to map the urban area using several mapping techniques such as Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM), Mixture Tune Matched Filtering (MTMF) and Linear Spectral Unmixing. The urban land covers displayed noticeable differences from one another in the spectral responses in the Hyperion image. The overall accuracy of the SAM classified map was 89.41%, which indicated good potential of Hyperion image for Classification. Use of the other approaches, linear spectral unmixing and MTMF have improved the classification results.     

Spectral Characteristics of Some Horticultural and Vegetable Crops at Different Growth Stages

Ground based remote sensing experiments using multispectral radiometer were condueted during December 1992 to March 1993, at horticultural field of Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, located in Pune, over banana, grapes, brinjal and tomato crops for studying the spectral response at different growth stages and vigour. The spectral characteristics and the various vegetative indices of diseased and healthy plants are discussed in this paper. Besides its significance in ground based remote sensing, these studies may be helpful for decision making in the area of condition assessment of crops through satellite remote sensing, as the spectral bands of the radiometer used in this experiment are similar to those of IRS and Landsat satellites. Moreover, the growth profiles of brinjal and banana crops can be useful in the area of crop and vegetable discrimination.     

Assessment of Late Blight Induced Diseased Potato Crops: A Case Study for West Bengal District Using Temporal AWiFS and MODIS Data

Remote sensing technology becomes an effective and inexpensive technique for detecting disease in vegetation. In this study, an attempt has been done to discriminate healthy and late blight affected crop using remote sensing based indices such as NDVI and LSWI. NDVI and LSWI spectral profiles between healthy and late blight affected crop shows large difference. Mean difference in reflectance between two acquired dates Jan. 10 and 29, 2009 crop clusters varied from 31.28 % in red band, 7.7 % in NIR band and 6.23 % in SWIR bands in healthy crops while in late blight affected crops it is ?15.5 % in red, 44.4 % in NIR and ?14.61 % in SWIR bands. Negative percentage differences in reflectance indicate reflectance increases from Jan. 10, 2009 to Jan. 29, 2009, while positive difference indicate decrease in reflectance between the two dates. Since potato is an irrigated crop, these differences in reflectance are attributed to prevalent disease at that time. It is found that severely affected areas are Bardhman, Arambag, Bishnupur, Ghatal and Hugli taluka with crop damage areas are 4036.66, 1138.68, 2025.23, 469.15, and 380.08 ha, respectively.     

采用IDL小波工具优化高光谱影像光谱特征匹配分类

光谱特征匹配分类是常用的高光谱影像分类、识别地物的方法,针对高光谱影像提取植被盖度存在的问题,文章根据高光谱遥感影像处理的方法,采用EO-1卫星在广州市过境的Hyperion高光谱影像,以＂广州南肺＂万亩果园作为试验区,经过大气纠正——最小噪声分离变换（MNF）——最纯净像元指数计算（PPI）——提取植被的端元,以此作为研究区识别植被的参考样本,进行光谱特征匹配提取植被盖度。其中提出利用连续小波变换对参考端元的波谱曲线降噪的方法,旨在优化光谱特征匹配,以提高识别植被的精度。实验结果表明,这种辅助匹配的方法能有效提高识别植被的精度。     

Detection of rice sheath blight for in-season disease management using multispectral remote sensing

Timely diagnosis of crop diseases in fields is critical for precision on-farm disease management. Remote sensing technology can be used as an effective and inexpensive method to identify diseased plants in a field scale. However, due to the diversity of crops and their associated diseases, application of the technology to agriculture is still in research stage, which needs to be elaborately investigated for algorithm development and standard image processing procedures. In this paper, we examined the applicability of broadband high spatial-resolution ADAR (Airborne Data Acquisition and Registration) remote sensing data to detect rice sheath blight and developed an approach to further explore the applicability. Based on the field symptom measurements, a comprehensive field disease index (DI) was constructed to measure infection severity of the disease and to relate to image sampled infections. In addition to direct band digital number (DN) values, band ratio indices and standard difference indices were used to examine possible correlations between field and image data. The results indicated that the broadband remote sensing imagery has the capability to detect the disease. Some image indices such as RI₁₄, SDI₁₄ and SDI₂₄ worked better than others. A correlation coefficient above 0.62 indicated that these indices would be valuable to use for identification of the rice disease. In the validation analysis, we obtained a small root mean square error (RMS = 9.1), confirming the applicability of the developed method. Although the results were encouraging, it was difficult to discriminate healthy plants from light infection ones when DI < 20 because of their spectral similarities. Hence, it was clear that identification accuracy increases when infection reaches medium-to-severe levels (DI > 35). This phenomenon illustrated that remote sensing images with higher spectral resolution (more bands and narrower bandwidth) were required in order to further examine the capability of separating the light diseased plants from healthy plants.     

Understanding the Unique Spectral Signature of Winter Rape

Driven by significant technological developments in the hyperspectral imaging, material mapping using reference spectra has received renewed interest of the remote sensing community. The applicability of reference spectral signatures in image classification depends mainly on the material type and its spectral signature behaviour. Identification and spectral characterization of materials which exhibit unique spectral behaviour is the first step in this approach. Consequently there have been active researches for the identification of surface materials which exhibit unique spectral signatures. The uniqueness of reflectance signature of winter rape relative to its co-occurring crop species was reported in this study. Reflectance spectral libraries constructed from field spectral reflectance measurements collected over five agricultural crops (alfalfa, winter barley, winter rape, winter rye, and winter wheat) during four subsequent growing seasons were classified by the linear discriminant analysis (LDA). Further, the reference field spectral database was used for the spectral feature fitting and classification of a historical HyMAP airborne hyperspectral imagery acquired at a separate site, by spectral library search. Results indicate the existence of a meaningful spectral matching between image and field spectra for winter rape and demonstrate the potential for transferring spectral library for hyperspectral image classification. The observed consistency in the discrimination of winter rape demonstrates experimentally the fundamental principle of remote sensing which suggests the theoretical existence of unique spectral signatures for materials which can be incorporated as reference spectral signatures for hyperspectral image classification.     

Lithological mapping from hyperspectral data by improved use of spectral angle mapper

The spectral angle mapper (SAM), as a spectral matching method, has been widely used in lithological type identification and mapping using hyperspectral data. The SAM quantifies the spectral similarity between an image pixel spectrum and a reference spectrum with known components. In most existing studies a mean reflectance spectrum has been used as the reference spectrum for a specific lithological class. However, this conventional use of SAM does not take into account the spectral variability, which is an inherent property of many rocks and is further magnified in remote sensing data acquisition process. In this study, two methods of determining reference spectra used in SAM are proposed for the improved lithological mapping. In first method the mean of spectral derivatives was combined with the mean of original spectra, i.e., the mean spectrum and the mean spectral derivative were jointly used in SAM classification, to improve the class separability. The second method is the use of multiple reference spectra in SAM to accommodate the spectral variability. The proposed methods were evaluated in lithological mapping using EO-1 Hyperion hyperspectral data of two arid areas. The spectral variability and separability of the rock types under investigation were also examined and compared using spectral data alone and using both spectral data and first derivatives. The experimental results indicated that spectral variability significantly affected the identification of lithological classes with the conventional SAM method using a mean reference spectrum. The proposed methods achieved significant improvement in the accuracy of lithological mapping, outperforming the conventional use of SAM with a mean spectrum as the reference spectrum, and the matching filtering, a widely used spectral mapping method.     

Hyperspectral remote sensing of evaporate minerals and associated sediments in Lake Magadi area, Kenya

Pleistocene to present evaporitic lacustrine sediments in Lake Magadi, East African Rift Valley, Kenya were studied and mapped using spectral remote sensing methods. This approach incorporated surface mineral mapping using space-borne hyperspectral Hyperion imagery together with laboratory analysis, including visible, near-infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (VNIR) measurements and X-ray diffraction for selected rock and soil samples of the study area. The spectral signatures of Magadiite and Kenyaite, which have not been previously reported, were established and the spectral signatures of trona, chert series, volcanic tuff and the High Magadi bed were also analyzed.Image processing techniques, MNF (Minimum Noise Fraction) and MTMF (Mixture Tuned Matched Filtering) using a stratified approach (image analysis with and without the lake area), were used to enhance the mapping of evaporates. High Magadi beds, chert series and volcanic tuff were identified from the Hyperion image with an overall mapping accuracy of 84.3%. Even though, the spatial distribution of evaporites and sediments in Lake Magadi area change in response to climate variations, the mineralogy of this area has not been mapped recently. The results of this study shows the usefulness of the hypersspectral remote sensing to map the surface geology of this kind of environment and to locate promising sites for industrial open-pit trona mining in a qualitative and quantitative manner.     

Multi range spectral feature fitting for hyperspectral imagery in extracting oilseed rape planting area

Spectral feature fitting (SFF) is a commonly used strategy for hyperspectral imagery analysis to discriminate ground targets. Compared to other image analysis techniques, SFF does not secure higher accuracy in extracting image information in all circumstances. Multi range spectral feature fitting (MRSFF) from ENVI software allows user to focus on those interesting spectral features to yield better performance. Thus spectral wavelength ranges and their corresponding weights must be determined. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the performance of MRSFF in oilseed rape planting area extraction. A practical method for defining the weighted values, the variance coefficient weight method, was proposed to set up criterion. Oilseed rape field canopy spectra from the whole growth stage were collected prior to investigating its phenological varieties; oilseed rape endmember spectra were extracted from the Hyperion image as identifying samples to be used in analyzing the oilseed rape field. Wavelength range divisions were determined by the difference between field-measured spectra and image spectra, and image spectral variance coefficient weights for each wavelength range were calculated corresponding to field-measured spectra from the closest date. By using MRSFF, wavelength ranges were classified to characterize the target's spectral features without compromising spectral profile's entirety. The analysis was substantially successful in extracting oilseed rape planting areas (RMSE ≤ 0.06), and the RMSE histogram indicated a superior result compared to a conventional SFF. Accuracy assessment was based on the mapping result compared with spectral angle mapping (SAM) and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). The MRSFF yielded a robust, convincible result and, therefore, may further the use of hyperspectral imagery in precision agriculture.     

利用流形学习进行高光谱遥感影像的降维与特征提取

基于最新的非线性降维方法——流形学习的理论,从高光谱遥感数据内在的非线性结构出发,采用全局化的等距映射(Isomap)方法进行降维,取得了优于常用的MNF方法的结果。把光谱角和光谱信息散度与测地距离相结合用于Isomap算法,结果在冗余方差和光谱规范化特征值方面优于采用传统欧氏距离计算邻域的Isomap方法。实验表明,流形学习是一种有效的高光谱遥感数据特征提取方法。     

结合Gram-Schmidt变换的高光谱影像谐波分析融合算法

针对高光谱影像谐波分析融合(HAF)算法在影像融合时不顾及地物光谱曲线整体反射率这一缺陷,提出了结合Gram-Schmidt变换的高光谱影像谐波分析融合(GSHAF)改进算法。GSHAF算法可在完全保留融合前后像元光谱曲线波形形态的基础上,将高光谱影像融合简化为各像元光谱曲线的谐波余相组成的二维影像与高空间分辨率影像之间的融合。它是在原始高光谱影像光谱曲线被谐波分解为谐波余项、振幅和相位后,首先将其谐波余项与高空间分辨率影像进行GS变换融合,这样便可有效地修正融合后像元光谱曲线的反射率特征,随后再利用该融合影像与谐波振幅、相位进行谐波逆变换,完成高光谱影像谐波融合。本文最后利用Hyperion高光谱遥感影像与ALI高空间分辨率影像对GSHAF算法进行可行性分析,再以HJ-1A等卫星数据对其进行普适性验证,试验结果表明,GSHAF算法不仅可以完全地保留光谱曲线波形形态,而且融合后影像的地物光谱曲线反射率更接近真实地物。     

光学遥感影像智能化处理研究进展

随着对地观测技术的发展,海量遥感影像不断传输到地面。传统的遥感信息处理方法在处理效率、精度上的不足,限制了遥感信息的挖掘及利用,亟需发展智能化方法满足遥感影像处理的需求。受自然界中生物进化机制的启发,基于进化计算的遥感影像智能化处理方法具有以下特点:(1)拥有全局优化能力,对目标函数的优化能力更强;(2)具有自组织、自学习的特点,能够从遥感数据本身学习,不依赖数据分布等先验信息;(3)拥有处理多目标问题的能力,同时考虑多个目标函数而不需要人工确定它们之间的权重。因此,智能化遥感信息处理方法能够在海量遥感影像中有效地提取适用于不同应用目的的信息。本文主要介绍智能化遥感信息处理方法的典型应用包括遥感影像智能化分类(监督分类、聚类)、遥感影像亚像素信息提取(高光谱影像混合像元分解、亚像元制图),并讨论了遥感信息智能化处理方法的发展方向。     

高分辨率图像辅助提取高光谱图像端元

现有的端元提取算法大多是基于凸面单形体假设,对于非单一地物类型,利用这些端元进行丰度反演将会影响混合像元分解精度。本文提出一种利用高分辨率图像判断高光谱像元内是否为同一类型地物的方法。首先,利用图像分割程序对高分辨率图像进行分割,得到光谱均一的斑块矢量图,并叠加到高光谱图像上;然后,通过空间关系分析找出斑块内的高光谱像元,称其为准端元;最后,利用端元提取算法在这些准端元中进行端元提取。实验结果表明,该方法将端元提取结果的误差降低了20%左右。     

Hyperspectral reflectance of leaves and flowers of an outbreak species discriminates season and successional stage of vegetation

Spectral reflectance can be used to assess large-scale performances of plants in the field based on plant nutrient balance as well as composition of defence compounds. However, plant chemical composition is known to vary with season – due to its phenology – and it may even depend on the succession stage of its habitat. Here we investigate (i) how spectral reflectance could be used to discriminate successional and phenological stages of Jacobaea vulgaris in both leaf and flower organs and (ii) if chemical content estimation by reflectance is flower or leaf dependent.We used J. vulgaris, which is a natural outbreak plant species on abandoned arable fields in north-western Europe and studied this species in a chronosequence representing successional development during time since abandonment. The chemical content and reflectance between 400 and 2500 nm wavelengths of flowers and leaves were measured throughout the season in fields of different successional ages. The data were analyzed with multivariate statistics for temporal discrimination and estimation of chemical contents in both leaf and flower organs.Two main effects were revealed by spectral reflectance measurements: (i) both flower and leaf spectra show successional and seasonal changes, but the pattern is complex and organ specific (ii) flower head pyrrolizidine alkaloids, which are involved in plant defence against herbivores, can be detected through hyperspectral reflectance.We conclude that spectral reflectance of both leaves and flowers can provide information on plant performance during season and successional stages. As a result, remote sensing studies of plant performance in complex field situations will benefit from considering hyperspectral reflectance of different plant organs. This approach may enable more detailed studies on the link between spectral information and plant defence dynamics both aboveground and belowground.     

高光谱遥感图像的空间邻域指数

通过高光谱遥感图像空间邻域内光谱特征的变化,研究了邻域光谱度量指数;根据邻域内端元光谱特征的变化,提出了邻域独立端元指数提取图像的空间维细节信息。通过真实高光谱遥感图像检验,两类邻域指数能够较好地提取高光谱遥感图像中的细节,为进一步结合空间维、光谱维特征的高精度目标探测与识别创造了有利条件。     

高光谱数据在Oracle中的存储及应用技术研究

高光谱遥感作为遥感的前沿技术,正在得到日益广泛的应用,其数据积累日益丰富。随着定量化遥感渐渐成为关注的核心,很多领域都越来越迫切地要求建立一个能存放高光谱数据、功能性强、使用方便、易扩展、与本领域应用相结合的数据库系统。针对高光谱数据特性以及处理和管理的需要,文中提出了基于Oracle数据库的面向对象的高光谱数据管理模型,从而便于高光谱数据的存储、管理、查询;并基于高光谱数据库进行了SAM分类实验,验证了该模型的有效性。