Prior-knowledge-based spectral mixture analysis for impervious surface mapping

In this study, we developed a prior-knowledge-based spectral mixture analysis (PKSMA) to map impervious surfaces by using endmembers derived separately for high- and low-density urban regions. First, an urban area was categorized into high- and low-density urban areas, using a multi-step classification method. Next, in high-density urban areas that were assumed to have only vegetation and impervious surfaces (ISs), the vegetation–impervious model (V–I) was used in a spectral mixture analysis (SMA) with three endmembers: vegetation, high albedo, and low albedo. In low-density urban areas, the vegetation–impervious–soil model (V–I–S) was used in an SMA analysis with four endmembers: high albedo, low albedo, soil, and vegetation. The fraction of IS with high and low albedo in each pixel was combined to produce the final IS map. The root mean-square error (RMSE) of the IS map produced using PKSMA was about 11.0%, compared to 14.52% only using four-endmember SMA. Particularly in high-density urban areas, PKSMA (RMSE = 6.47%) showed better performance than four-endmember (15.91%). The results indicate that PKSMA can improve IS mapping compared to traditional SMA by using appropriately selected endmembers and is particularly strong in high-density urban areas.     

Using pan-sharpened high resolution satellite data to improve impervious surfaces estimation

Impervious surface is an important environmental and socio-economic indicator for numerous urban studies. While a large number of researches have been conducted to estimate the area and distribution of impervious surface from satellite data, the accuracy for impervious surface estimation (ISE) is insufficient due to high diversity of urban land cover types. This study evaluated the use of panchromatic (PAN) data in very high resolution satellite image for improving the accuracy of ISE by various pan-sharpening approaches, with a further comprehensive analysis of its scale effects. Three benchmark pan-sharpening approaches, Gram-Schmidt (GS), PANSHARP and principal component analysis (PCA) were applied to WorldView-2 in three spots of Hong Kong. The on-screen digitization were carried out based on Google Map and the results were viewed as referenced impervious surfaces. The referenced impervious surfaces and the ISE results were then re-scaled to various spatial resolutions to obtain the percentage of impervious surfaces. The correlation coefficient (CC) and root mean square error (RMSE) were adopted as the quantitative indicator to assess the accuracy. The accuracy differences between three research areas were further illustrated by the average local variance (ALV) which was used for landscape pattern analysis. The experimental results suggested that 1) three research regions have various landscape patterns; 2) ISE accuracy extracted from pan-sharpened data was better than ISE from original multispectral (MS) data; and 3) this improvement has a noticeable scale effects with various resolutions. The improvement was reduced slightly as the resolution became coarser.     

组合核支持向量回归提取高光谱影像不透水面

由于城市地表组成的复杂性,基于单核函数的支持向量回归模型很难满足精度。本文结合空间-光谱组合核函数和支持向量回归,提出了一种提取高光谱影像不透水面丰度的改进算法。首先从高光谱遥感图像上提取波谱特征和多通道灰度共生矩阵空间纹理特征,选取研究区10%像元特征数据作为训练数据,以线性加权求和核为多核组合方式,建立结合光谱信息和空间信息的组合核支持向量回归模型。然后,用生成的回归模型预测未知像元不透水面丰度值。最后,对实验结果进行评价。在模拟数据试验中,本文算法比单核回归均方根误差平均降低1.4%,决定系数比单核回归平均提高0.6%。在Hyperion数据两组试验中,该算法比单核回归均方根误差平均降低1.8%,决定系数比单核回归平均提高11.7%。模拟和真实两种高光谱数据实验中,本文算法均得到了空间形态上更准确的不透水面结果,单核回归结果存在失真现象。研究结果表明:本文算法能够有效提取城市不透水面丰度,与单核方法相比有较明显的精度提升。     

Automated mapping of impervious surfaces in urban and suburban areas: Linear spectral unmixing of high spatial resolution imagery

Quantifying impervious surfaces in urban and suburban areas is a key step toward a sustainable urban planning and management strategy. With the availability of fine-scale remote sensing imagery, automated mapping of impervious surfaces has attracted growing attention. However, the vast majority of existing studies have selected pixel-based and object-based methods for impervious surface mapping, with few adopting sub-pixel analysis of high spatial resolution imagery. This research makes use of a vegetation-bright impervious-dark impervious linear spectral mixture model to characterize urban and suburban surface components. A WorldView-3 image acquired on May 9th, 2015 is analyzed for its potential in automated unmixing of meaningful surface materials for two urban subsets and one suburban subset in Toronto, ON, Canada. Given the wide distribution of shadows in urban areas, the linear spectral unmixing is implemented in non-shadowed and shadowed areas separately for the two urban subsets. The results indicate that the accuracy of impervious surface mapping in suburban areas reaches up to 86.99%, much higher than the accuracies in urban areas (80.03% and 79.67%). Despite its merits in mapping accuracy and automation, the application of our proposed vegetation-bright impervious-dark impervious model to map impervious surfaces is limited due to the absence of soil component. To further extend the operational transferability of our proposed method, especially for the areas where plenty of bare soils exist during urbanization or reclamation, it is still of great necessity to mask out bare soils by automated classification prior to the implementation of linear spectral unmixing.     

Enhancing endmember selection in multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis (MESMA) for urban impervious surface area mapping using spectral angle and spectral distance parameters

Successful retrieval of urban impervious surface area is achieved with remote sensing data using the multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis (MESMA). MESMA is well suited for studying the urban impervious surface area because it allows the number and types of the endmembers to vary on a per-pixel basis, thereby, allowing the control of the large spectral variability. However, MESMA must calculate all potential endmember combinations of each pixel to determine the best-fit one. Therefore, it is a time-consuming and inefficient unmixing technology, especially for hyperspectral images because these images have more complicated endmember categories. Hence, in this paper, we design an improved MESMA (SASD-MESMA: spectral angle and spectral distance MESMA) to enhance the computational efficiency of conventional MESMA, and we validate this new method by analyzing the Hyperion image (Jan-2011) and the field-spectra data of Guangzhou (China). In SASD-MESMA, the parameters of spectral angle (SA) and spectral distance (SD) are used to evaluate the similarity degree between library spectra and image spectra in order to identify the most representative endmember combination for each pixel. Results demonstrate that the SA and SD parameters are useful to reduce misjudgment in selecting candidate endmembers and effective for determining the appropriate endmembers in one pixel. Meanwhile, this research indicates that the proposed SASD-MESMA performs very well in retrieving impervious surface area, forest, grass and soil distributions on the sub-pixel level (the overall root mean square error (RMSE) is 0.15 and the correlation coefficient of determination (R²) is 0.68).     

基于规则的高分影像不透水层提取技术研究

为满足城市环境评价、城市规划监测、城市水循环评价对城市不透水层检测的需求,本文以国产高分卫星多光谱数据为研究基础,提出了一种新颖的基于规则的高分辨率多光谱影像不透水层提取方法,该方法利用归一化指数模型,融合对象统计特征,制定综合判定规则,可有效提升城市区域不透水层的提取精度。同时利用国产卫星数据,选择了典型的10个城市进行实验验证,取得了良好的效果。该方法可广泛应用于城市外轮廓提取、城市环境评估、城市扩展评估等研究领域。     

利用时空神经网络模型的长江经济带气温反演

传统基于遥感的气温反演方法往往使用全局模型,从而忽略了气温分布及其时空影响异质性,特别是在较大区域尺度的研究中存在不足。针对长江经济带区域,引入时空地理加权神经网络模型,建立一种高精度的气温估计方法。通过在广义回归网络模型中建立局部模型来顾及时空异质性的影响,融合遥感数据、同化数据、站点数据,获取面域分布的近地表气温信息。采用基于站点的十折交叉验证方法对模型性能进行评估,结果表明,时空地理加权神经网络有效提高了气温估计的精度（均方根误差为1.899℃,平均绝对误差（mean absolute error,MAE）为1.310℃,相关系数为0.976）,与多元线性回归和传统的全局神经网络方法相比,MAE值分别降低了1.112℃和0.378℃。气温空间分布制图结果显示,该方法结果能很好地反映长江经济带气温空间上的差异和不同季节的特征信息,具有实际应用价值。     

Development of fuzzy rule-based parameters for urban object-oriented classification using very high resolution imagery

Urban areas consist of spectrally and spatially heterogeneous features. Advanced information extraction techniques are needed to handle high resolution imageries in providing detailed information for urban planning applications. This study was conducted to identify a technique that accurately maps impervious and pervious surfaces from WorldView-2 (WV-2) imagery. Supervised per-pixel classification algorithms including Maximum Likelihood and Support Vector Machine (SVM) were utilized to evaluate the capability of spectral-based classifiers to classify urban features. Object-oriented classification was performed using supervised SVM and fuzzy rule-based approach to add spatial and texture attributes to spectral information. Supervised object-oriented SVM achieved 82.80% overall accuracy which was the better accuracy compared to supervised per-pixel classifiers. Classification based on the proposed fuzzy rule-based system revealed satisfactory output compared to other classification techniques with an overall accuracy of 87.10% for pervious surfaces and an overall accuracy of 85.19% for impervious surfaces.     

利用雷达干涉数据进行城市不透水层百分比估算

人工不透水层是城市地区的重要特征.作为城市生态环境的关键指数,不透水层百分比(Impervious Surfaces Percentage, ISP)常用于城市水文过程模拟、水质面源污染及城市专题制图等研究中.本文利用ERS-1/2 重复轨道雷达干涉数据,采用分类与回归树(CART)算法探究了雷达遥感在城市ISP估算中的可行性和潜力,并与SPOT5 HRG光学遥感图像的估算结果进行了分析比较.香港九龙港岛实验区的初步研究结果表明,雷达干涉数据在城市不透水层研究中具有一定的应用潜力,特别是裸土和稀疏植被的ISP估算结果要好于光学遥感,这主要得益于雷达干涉数据(特别是长时间相干图像)在人工建筑物和裸土或稀疏植被之间具有很强的区分能力,另外,雷达干涉数据和光学遥感数据间的融合能够提高ISP估算精度.     

基于混合光谱分解的城市不透水面分布估算

城市化的一个重要表现就是不透水面分布比率的上升,城市内部不透水面分布是城市生态环境的一个重要指标。对于规模较大的大城市,采用高性价比的中等分辨率影像,获取不透水面的分布,是当前国际研究的一个热点。本研究利用Landsat 7的ETM 影像,在线性光谱分解的技术上,提取了上海市的不透水面分布并对其空间特征进行了分析。研究揭示,ETM 影像对于城市尺度的信息提取,其成本是较低的;对于城市地域来说,利用植被、高反照度、低反照度和裸露的土壤四种最终光谱端元的线性组合,可以较好地模拟ETM 波谱特征,而除了水面以外的高反照度、低反照度两种最终光谱端元,可以较好地表达城市不透水表面信息。结果显示,利用中等分辨率影像对上海中心城区不透水面分布提取的精度还是令人满意的,总体上,上海市不透水面分布比率较高,不透水面分布的空间差异进一步揭示了城市土地覆被空间结构以及城市空间扩展的差异性。     

流域尺度的不透水面遥感提取

一个地区的不透水面覆盖度不仅是该地区城镇化程度重要指示因子,也是该地区生态环境状况的重要指示因子.现有的不透水面遥感提取方法,多集中在城区尺度上.而流域尺度上快速、准确的不透水面遥感提取方法在国内外还鲜有研究.本研究以覆盖海河流域同一季节的Landsat影像为数据源,利用已有土地利用数据集中的道路、城市、农村和工业用地...     

GIDS空间插值法估算云下地表温度

选用陆面区域温度最佳空间插值法—梯度距离平方反比法(GIDS),为近似估算云下地表温度提供了可能。实验选取暖季南京江宁地区ETM+影像和ASTERGDEMV1高程数据,探索分析GIDS估算云下地表温度的可行性和可信性。对14种空间大小云覆盖区实验研究表明:利用GIDS插值估算云下地表温度具有可行性,且估算误差随着云覆盖区范围增大而增加,其最大MAE<0.9℃,最大RMSE<1.2℃,并在云覆盖区小于100×100像元时,最大MAE<0.8℃、RMSE<1℃;插值精度与最近邻无云像元典型代表性、区域内空间复杂度和地表覆盖类型均有关,存在不稳定性和动态性;云下NDVI均方差与MAE、RMSE有着一致变化趋势,借助NDVI均方差指示云下地表空间异质性及NDVI–LST负相关性,可对插值结果进行可信性评判,以避免插值结果盲目应用,推进和提升地表温度产品应用价值。     

The use of single-date MODIS imagery for estimating large-scale urban impervious surface fraction with spectral mixture analysis and machine learning techniques

Urban impervious surface information is essential for urban and environmental applications at the regional/national scales. As a popular image processing technique, spectral mixture analysis (SMA) has rarely been applied to coarse-resolution imagery due to the difficulty of deriving endmember spectra using traditional endmember selection methods, particularly within heterogeneous urban environments. To address this problem, we derived endmember signatures through a least squares solution (LSS) technique with known abundances of sample pixels, and integrated these endmember signatures into SMA for mapping large-scale impervious surface fraction. In addition, with the same sample set, we carried out objective comparative analyses among SMA (i.e. fully constrained and unconstrained SMA) and machine learning (i.e. Cubist regression tree and Random Forests) techniques. Analysis of results suggests three major conclusions. First, with the extrapolated endmember spectra from stratified random training samples, the SMA approaches performed relatively well, as indicated by small MAE values. Second, Random Forests yields more reliable results than Cubist regression tree, and its accuracy is improved with increased sample sizes. Finally, comparative analyses suggest a tentative guide for selecting an optimal approach for large-scale fractional imperviousness estimation: unconstrained SMA might be a favorable option with a small number of samples, while Random Forests might be preferred if a large number of samples are available.     

An Adaptive Method of High Accuracy Surface Modeling and Its Application to Simulating Elevation Surfaces

An adaptive method is employed to speed up computation of high accuracy surface modeling (HASM), for which an error indicator and an error estimator are developed. Root mean‐square error (RMSE) is used as the error estimator that is formulated as a function of gully density and grid cell size. The error indicator is developed on the basis of error surfaces for different spatial resolutions, which are interpolated in terms of the absolute errors calculated at sampled points while paying attention to the landform characteristics. The error surfaces indicate the magnitude and distribution of errors in each step of adaptive refinement and make spatial changes to the errors in the simulation process visualized. The adaptive method of high accuracy surface modeling (HASM‐AM) is applied to simulating elevation surface of the Dong‐Zhi tableland with 27.24 million pixels at a spatial resolution of 10 m × 10 m. Test results show that HASM‐AM has greatly speeded up computation by avoiding unnecessary calculations and saving memory. In addition, HASM‐AM improves simulation accuracy.     

Estimation of impervious surfaces of Beijing,China, with spectral normalized images using linear spectral mixture analysis and artificial neural network

The objective of this article is to evaluate the effectiveness of various algorithms for estimating impervious surfaces. Linear spectral mixture analysis (LSMA) and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) network using original and spectral normalized images were applied to two ASTER images acquired on 31 August and 9 April 2004, respectively. Accuracy assessment was performed with a Quickbird image. Root-mean-square errors (RMSEs) were calculated and compared. Results indicated that LSMA with original images provided the poorest results. RMSE was 14.8% for the August image and 22.4% for the April image. Results from LSMA with normalized images improved significantly with RMSE of 12.6% for the August image and 18.9% for the April image. The MLP modelling with original images generated slightly better results with RMSE of 12.2% and 18.4% for each image. The MLP modelling of normalized images provided the best estimation, yielding a RMSE of 12.1% for the August image and 18.2% for the April image.     

The influence of wind speed on infrared temperature in impervious surface areas based on in situ measurement data

Wind perturbations can cause a relatively rapid decay in infrared temperature, thus resulting in abnormal spatial patterns of infrared temperature in urban areas and the subsequent reduction in the reliability of infrared temperature measurements. To increase the reliability of such measurements, the effects of wind speed must be evaluated and removed. However, studies on the quantitative estimation of wind speed effects on infrared temperature are limited. In this study, in situ infrared temperature measurements and synchronous meteorological data were used to evaluate the influence of wind speed on in situ infrared temperature measurements of impervious surfaces. Five different impervious surfaces were selected in this study. The technical schemes are proposed for quantitative estimation of wind speed effects: (1) the residual-based method from the diurnal temperature cycle model was proposed to estimate the infrared temperature decay (ITD) due to wind fluctuations; (2) quantile regression method was introduced to define the relationship between wind speed fluctuations and the ITD; and (3) An improved probabilistic prediction interval as well as a ratio method were developed to estimate the magnitude and duration of the ITD. The results indicated that relative extreme wind speed (EWS) was significantly correlated with the range of ITD over 5-min intervals; the hourly decay rate and impact duration of ITD varied with changes in relative wind speed and impervious surface type; and the impact duration of ITD increased with an increase in the relative EWS and lasted more than 1.3 h for the studied impervious surfaces. The above findlings provide us a guidance for in situ measurement of infrared temperature and could be utilized for correcting thermal infrared images.     

运用归一化光谱混合模型分析城市地表组成

运用归一化光谱混合分析(NSMA)方法,用ETM 数据调查广州市海珠区城市地表组成,采用亮度标准化方法减小亮度变化。通过标准化,使亮度差异在每个植被-非渗透性表面-土壤-水体(V-I-S-W)组成中减小或者消除,这样使得一个单一的端元能够代表一种地表组分。在此基础上,通过归一化影像,选择了植被、非渗透性表面、土壤和水体4种端元,运用一种约束光谱混合分析(SMA)模型,分解了不同种类的城市地表组成。通过与已有模型计算结果比较,认为本文所构建的模型较优,其对研究区非渗透性表面估计的均方根误差为12.6%。     

Estimating very high resolution urban surface temperature using a spectral unmixing and thermal mixing approach

Land surface temperature (LST) plays a critical role in characterizing energy exchanges of the Earth's surface and atmosphere. Recent advances in thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing technology enable the emergence of airborne very-high-resolution (VHR) TIR sensors to identify detailed LST distribution for environmental, geological and urban applications. However, the usage of airborne VHR TIR data may be limited by its high cost, long acquisition period, extensive data processing, etc. A cost-effective alternative could be VHR LST estimation. We proposed a physically based method, referred to as the VHR spectral unmixing and thermal mixing (VHR-SUTM) approach, to estimate LST at the meter level. Particularly, considering both spectral and thermal properties, spectral unmixing was employed to estimate fractional urban compositions for a comprehensive representation of heterogeneous urban surfaces. Further, VHR LST was modeled as a summation of the thermal features of representative urban compositions weighted by their respective abundances. Results suggest a high agreement between the resampled VHR LST estimates and the retrieved LSTs. With relatively high estimation accuracy (RMSE of 2.02 K and MAE of 1.51 K), the VHR-SUTM technique could serve as a promising and practical method for various applications in urban and environment studies.     

融合多源遥感数据的高分辨率城市植被覆盖度估算

准确获取城市植被覆盖定量信息对城市生态环境评价,城市规划及可持续城市发展具有重要意义。遥感技术的发展为获取区域及全球植被覆盖信息提供了有效手段,目前基于单传感器、单时相遥感数据的城市植被覆盖度估算方法得到较为广泛的应用。然而,由于城市地表覆盖的复杂性、植被类型的多样性,在一定程度上影响了城市植被覆盖信息提取的精度。为此,本文提出一种基于多源遥感数据与时间混合分析的城市植被覆盖度估算方法。首先,通过时空融合、植被物候特征分析获得最佳时序的GF-1 NDVI数据;其次,基于时间序列的GF-1 NDVI及Landsat 8 SWIR1、SWIR2数据,采用时间混合分析方法以长沙市为例估算城市植被覆盖度。实验研究表明,基于多源遥感数据与时间混合分析方法获得了较高精度的城市植被覆盖度估算（RMSE为0.2485,SE为0.1377,MAE为0.1889）,相对于单时相光谱混合分析、传统的像元二分法,本文提出的方法更为稳定,在低、中、高不同植被覆盖区均能获得较高的估算精度,为城市植被覆盖度定量估算提供了有效方法。