利用Sentinel-2A影像的面向对象特征湿地决策树分类方法

苏州市湿地众多、类型多样化、周围环境复杂,使用传统的遥感分类方法很难得到精度较高的湿地分类结果。研究了面向对象特征的湿地决策树分类方法,以苏州市澄湖地区为研究区域,使用欧空局的Sentinel-2A影像,先将研究区域分为湿地水体、植被和非植被3大类型,再分别构建鱼塘、河流、湖泊、农田和裸地等面向对象特征,据此实现湿地遥感分类。研究结果表明,该方法能够有效利用遥感影像提供的光谱特征、几何特征和纹理特征等多种丰富信息,产生较高的分类精度,总体分类精度可达80.67%,Kappa系数为77.80%。与传统的基于中低分辨率遥感影像的分类方法相比,该方法可以有效提取湿地不同地物对象的几何结构和纹理等特征,在提高湿地分类精度的同时实现对大面积湿地的快速动态监测。     

一种改进的融合多指标荒漠化等级分类方法

土地荒漠化等级分类是荒漠化监测的重要内容,也是土地荒漠化综合治理、科学防护的基础。针对植被稀疏及干旱区土地荒漠化提取异常的问题,本文选择干旱/半干旱的科尔沁区为试验区,以2005、2010和2015年3期的中高分辨率Landsat遥感影像为数据源,基于大量的样本统计分析,提出了一种融合植被覆盖度（FVC）、去土壤植被指数（MSAVI）、增强性植被指数（EVI）3种指标的荒漠化提取模型,并将之与传统植被覆盖度指标提取结果进行了对比分析。研究结果表明,相较于单一植被指数反演方法,本文提出的算法分类精度更高,尤其针对干旱/半干旱地区,该融合植被指数法具有更好的适用性和稳健性。该方法为荒漠化评价体系的建立提供了新的思路,为土地荒漠化防护与治理提供了辅助决策支撑。     

Crop classification and acreage estimation in North Korea using phenology features

In North Korea, reliable and timely information on crop acreage and spatial distribution is hard to obtain. In this study, we developed a fast and robust method to estimate crop acreage in North Korea using time-series normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data. We proposed a method to identify crop type based on NDVI phenology features using data collected in other areas with similar agri-environmental conditions to mitigate the shortage of ground truth data. Eventually the classification map (MODIScrop) was assessed using the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistical data and high-resolution crop classification maps derived from one Landsat scene (LScrop). The Pareto boundary method was used to assess the accuracy and crop distribution of the MODIScrop maps. Results showed that acreage derived from the MODIScrop maps was generally consistent with that reported in the FAO data (a relative error <4.1% for rice and <6.1% for maize, and <9.0% for soybean except for in 2004, 2008, and 2009) and the maps derived from the LScrop (a relative error about 5% in 2013, and 7% in 2008 and 2014). The classification accuracy reached 74.4%, 69.8%, and 73.1% of the areas covered by the Landsat images in 2008, 2013, and 2014, respectively. This indicates that features derived from NDVI profiles were able to characterize major crops, and the approaches developed in this study are feasible for crop mapping and acreage estimation in regions with limited ground truth data.     

Object- and pixel-based classifications of macroalgae farming area with high spatial resolution imagery

Macroalgae plays an important role in coastal ecosystems. The accurate delineation of macroalgae areas is important for environmental management. This study compared the pixel- and object-based methods using Gaofen satellite no. 2 image to explore an efficient classification approach. Expert system rules and nearest neighbour classifier were adopted for object-based classification, whereas maximum likelihood classifier was implemented in the pixel-based approach. Normalized difference vegetation index, normalized difference water index, mean value of the blue band and geometric characteristics were selected as features to distinguish macroalgae farms by considering the spectral and spatial characteristics. Results show that the object-based method achieved a higher overall accuracy and kappa coefficient than the pixel-based method. Moreover, the object-based approach displayed superiority in identifying Porphyra class. These findings suggest that the object-based method can delineate macroalgae farming areas efficiently and be applied in the future to monitor the macroalgae farms with high spatial resolution imagery.     

基于深度卷积神经网络的高分辨率遥感影像场景分类

场景分类对于高分辨率遥感影像的理解和信息提取具有重要意义。传统方法利用低、中级或语义特征来对影像的场景进行判别,但是针对高分影像涵盖的细节多、类别复杂等特点,中低层特征无法对影像语义进行准确描述。本文提出了一种基于深度卷积神经网络DCNN场景分类模型。首先利用卷积层对影像的纹理、颜色等低阶特征进行提取,然后利用池化层对重要特征进行筛选,最后将提取到的特征进行组合,形成高阶语义特征,利用高阶语义特征对高分影像进行场景分类。为了解决模型的过拟合问题,使用了数据增广、正则化及Dropout提高模型的泛化能力。本文方法在UC Merced-21取得了91.33%的准确率,相比于传统方法,有效地提高了分类精度,同时证明了深度卷积神经网络在遥感影像分类领域优越性。     

A novel image-fusion method based on the un-mixing of mixed MS sub-pixels regarding high-resolution DSM

A major reason for the spectral distortions of fused images generated by current image-fusion methods is that the fused versions of mixed multispectral (MS) sub-pixels (MSPs) corresponding to panchromatic (PAN) pure pixels remain mixed. The MSPs can be un-mixed spectrally to pure pixels having the same land cover classes in a fine classification map during the fusion process. Since it is difficult to produce such a land cover classification map using only MS and PAN images, a Digital Surface Model (DSM) derived from airborne Light Detection And Ranging data were employed in this study to facilitate the classification. In a novel fusion method proposed in this paper, MSPs near and across boundaries between vegetation and non-vegetation are identified using MS, PAN, and normalized Digital Surface Model (nDSM). The identified MSPs then are fused to pure pixels with respect to the corresponding land cover class in the classification map. In a test on WorldView-2 images over an urban area and the corresponding nDSM, the fused image generated by the proposed method was visually and quantitatively compared with fused images obtained using common image-fusion methods. The fused images generated by the proposed method yielded minimal spectral distortions and sharpened boundaries between vegetation and non-vegetation.     

基于光谱特征的雅鲁藏布江源区草地类型识别

以雅鲁藏布江源区为研究对象,以Landsat5 TM图像为数据源,根据不同草地类型的波段组合特征,结合源区1∶100万植被类型图、DEM和NDVI数据,构建草地判别规则,利用决策树分类法对雅鲁藏布江源区草地类型进行遥感识别。研究结果表明:①不同类型草地因其生境不同,利用不同波段组合特征进行草地类型识别能够达到较好的效果;②与传统的监督分类法相比,基于波段组合特征的决策树分类法具有较高的识别精度(总体精度提高了15.4%,Kappa系数提高了0.225);③在海拔4 400～5 000 m区域内,固沙草草原面积最大,其次为矮嵩草和小嵩草混生草甸,再次为变色锦鸡儿和金露梅灌丛,藏北嵩草草甸面积最小。     

"莫拉克"台风引起的滑坡泥石流灾害HJ-1图像遥感监测研究

利用HJ-1星2009年"莫拉克"台风前后获取的2个时相图像,通过去相关拉伸 (Decorrelation Stretch)、光谱信息增强和最大似然法分类提取滑坡、泥石流区域,并结合TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission)卫星降雨量数据和DEM (Digital Elevat...     

增强型DeepLab算法和自适应损失函数的高分辨率遥感影像分类

高分辨率遥感影像地物复杂,分类难度大,而深度学习方法可以提取地物更多更深层次的特征信息,适用于高分辨率遥感影像的地物分类。本文研究对高分辨率影像中不透水地面、建筑、低矮植被、树、车辆等地物的高精度分类。结合遥感多地物分类的特点,以DeepLab v3+网络模型为基础,提出E-DeepLab网络模型。主要改进为：（1）改进编码器和解码器的结合方式,使用简洁有效的加成连接方式。（2）缩小单次上采样倍数,增加上采样层,提高编码器与解码器连接的紧密性。（3）使用改进的自适应权重损失函数,自动调节地物损失权重。同时根据数据特点,提出结合DSM、NDVI数据等多通道训练方式。使用两个地区数据进行实验,结果表明,两地区精度均明显优于原始DeepLab v3+模型和其他相关模型,Potsdam地区总体提取精度达到93.2%,建筑物提取精度达到97.8%,Vaihingen地区总体提取精度达到90.7%,建筑物提取精度达到96.3%。目视对比分类图和标准标记图,两者具有高度的一致性。本文所提出的E-DeepLab网络在高分辨率遥感影像地物高精度提取和分类中有较好的应用价值。     

Texture-based classification of sub-Antarctic vegetation communities on Heard Island

This study was the first to use high-resolution IKONOS imagery to classify vegetation communities on sub-Antarctic Heard Island. We focused on the use of texture measures, in addition to standard multispectral information, to improve the classification of sub-Antarctic vegetation communities. Heard Island’s pristine and rapidly changing environment makes it a relevant and exciting location to study the regional effects of climate change. This study uses IKONOS imagery to provide automated, up-to-date, and non-invasive means to map vegetation as an important indicator for environmental change. Three classification techniques were compared: multispectral classification, texture based classification, and a combination of both. Texture features were calculated using the Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM). We investigated the effect of the texture window size on classification accuracy. The combined approach produced a higher accuracy than using multispectral bands alone. It was also found that the selection of GLCM texture features is critical. The highest accuracy (85%) was produced using all original spectral bands and three uncorrelated texture features. Incorporating texture improved classification accuracy by 6%.     

Monitoring and analysing the Emirate of Dubai’s land use/land cover changes: an integrated,low-cost remote sensing approach

This study presents a modified low-cost approach, which integrates the spectral angle mapper and image difference algorithms in order to enhance classification maps for the purpose of monitoring and analysing land use/land cover change between 2000 and 2015 for the Emirate of Dubai. The approach was modified by collecting 320 training samples from QuickBird images with a spatial resolution of 0.6 m, as well as carrying out field observations, followed by the application of a 3?×?3 Soble filter, sieving classes, majority/minority analysis, and clump classes of the obtained classification maps. The accuracy assessment showed that the targeted 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 classification maps have 88.1252%, 89.0699%, 90.1225% and 96.0965% accuracy, respectively. The results showed that the built-up area increased by 233.721?km² (5.81%) between 2000 and 2005 and continues to increase even up and till the present time. The assessment of changes in the periods 2000–2005 and 2010–2015 confirmed that net vegetation area losses were more pronounced from 2000 to 2005 than from 2010 to 2015, dropping from 47,618 to 40,820?km², respectively. This study is aimed to assist urban planners and decision-makers, as well as research institutes.     

Mapping post-fire forest regeneration and vegetation recovery using a combination of very high spatial resolution and hyperspectral satellite imagery

Careful evaluation of forest regeneration and vegetation recovery after a fire event provides vital information useful in land management. The use of remotely sensed data is considered to be especially suitable for monitoring ecosystem dynamics after fire. The aim of this work was to map post-fire forest regeneration and vegetation recovery on the Mediterranean island of Thasos by using a combination of very high spatial (VHS) resolution (QuickBird) and hyperspectral (EO-1 Hyperion) imagery and by employing object-based image analysis. More specifically, the work focused on (1) the separation and mapping of three major post-fire classes (forest regeneration, other vegetation recovery, unburned vegetation) existing within the fire perimeter, and (2) the differentiation and mapping of the two main forest regeneration classes, namely, Pinus brutia regeneration, and Pinus nigra regeneration. The data used in this study consisted of satellite images and field observations of homogeneous regenerated and revegetated areas. The methodology followed two main steps: a three-level image segmentation, and, a classification of the segmented images. The process resulted in the separation of classes related to the aforementioned objectives. The overall accuracy assessment revealed very promising results (approximately 83.7% overall accuracy, with a Kappa Index of Agreement of 0.79). The achieved accuracy was 8% higher when compared to the results reported in a previous work in which only the EO-1 Hyperion image was employed in order to map the same classes. Some classification confusions involving the classes of P. brutia regeneration and P. nigra regeneration were observed. This could be attributed to the absence of large and dense homogeneous areas of regenerated pine trees in the study area.     

Spatial relationship-assisted classification from high-resolution remote sensing imagery

Spatial information remains to be an important topic in geographic information system and in remote sensing fields, and spatial relationships have been increasingly incorporated into the image classification processes. Previous studies have employed multiple occurrences of spatial features (shape, texture, etc.,) to improve classification results. However, less attention has been focused on using higher-level spatial relationships for image classification. In this study, two novel spatial relationships, namely, maximum spatial adjacency (MSA) and directional spatial adjacency (DSA), were proposed to assist in image classification. The proposed methods were implemented to extract buildings, beach, and emergent vegetation land-cover classes according to their spatial relationships with their corresponding reference classes. The promising results obtained from this study suggest that the proposed MSA and DSA spatial relationships can be valuable information in defining rule sets for a more reasonable and accurate classification.     

Mapping dominant vegetation communities at Meili Snow Mountain,Yunnan Province,China using satellite imagery and plant community data

Mapping dominant vegetation communities is important work for vegetation scientists. It is very difficult to map dominant vegetation communities using multispectral remote sensing data only, especially in mountain areas. However plant community data contain useful information about the relationships between plant communities and their environment. In this paper, plant community data are linked with remote sensing to map vegetation communities. The Bayesian soft classifier was used to produce posterior probability images for each class. These images were used to calculate the prior probabilities. One hundred and eighty plant plots at Meili Snow Mountain, Yunnan Province, China were used to characterize the vegetation distribution for each class along altitude gradients. Then, the frequencies were used to modify the prior probabilities of each class. After stratification in a vegetation part and a non-vegetation part, a maximum-likelihood classification with equal prior probabilities was conducted, yielding an overall accuracy of 82.1% and a kappa accuracy of 0.797. Maximum-likelihood classification with modified prior probabilities in the vegetation part, conducted with a conventional maximum-likelihood classification for the non-vegetation part, yielded an overall accuracy of 87.7%, and a kappa accuracy of 0.861.     

深度学习GoogleNet模型支持下的中分辨率遥感影像自动分类

提出了一种基于深度学习技术的遥感分类方法,它能有效解决中分辨率影像在分类过程中出现的像元混分问题。研究选用2016年5月12日武汉市Landsat 7 ETM+遥感影像,基于GoogleNet模型中的Inception V3网络结构,借助迁移学习方法,构建出遥感分类模型,实现了对武汉市主城区4类典型地物（不透水层、植被、水体和其他用地）的自动分类提取,并将分类结果与传统最大似然分类（ML）结果进行了对比分析。研究表明：基于深度学习方法的遥感影像总体分类精度高达88.33%,Kappa系数为0.834 2,明显优于传统ML方法总体分类精度83%和Kappa系数0.755 0,而且有效抑制了地物在分类过程中出现的像元混分现象。     

面向对象分类特征优化选取方法及其应用

与传统基于像元的分类方法比较,面向对象的分类方法可利用的地物信息更加丰富,然而如何从众多信息中筛选出能够有效提取不同地物的分类特征,从而提高分类效率与精度,是使用面向对象方法分类时急需解决的问题。SEaTH算法（分离阈值法）是一种有效的自动选取分类特征并计算阈值的方法,但其只考虑了类间距离,容易存在信息的冗余,从而对分类精度造成一定影响。本文在SEaTH算法的基础上,综合考虑了特征间的相关性、类间距离以及类内距离,对SEaTH算法进行了优化,并将改进前后的两种方法运用到广东省肇庆市TM影像及环境一号卫星影像土地覆盖分类中进行对比分析。实验结果表明,改进后的方法筛选出的特征在提取地物上更为有效,尤其使耕地的分类精度提高了12.26%,使分类总体精度由80%提高到了85.26%。改进后的方法对不易获取多时相影像的地区的土地覆盖分类具有重要意义。     

Semi-automatic delineation of badlands using contrast in vegetation activity: a case study in the lower Chambal valley,India

Population growth worldwide leads to an increasing pressure on the land. Recent studies reported that many areas covered by badlands are decreasing because parts of badlands are being levelled and converted into arable land. It is important to monitor these changes for environmental planning. This paper proposes a remote-sensing-based detection method which allows mapping of badland dynamics based on seasonal vegetation changes in the lower Chambal valley, India. Supervised classification was applied on three Landsat (Thematic Mapper) images, from 3 different seasons; January (winter), April (summer) and October (post-monsoon). Different band selection methods were applied to get the best classification. Validation was done by ground referencing and a GeoEye-1 satellite image. The image from January performed best with overall accuracy of 87% and 0.69 of kappa. This method opens the possibilities of using semi-automatic classification for the Chambal badlands which is so far mapped with manual interpretations only.     

高分六号宽幅多光谱数据人工林类型分类

高分六号(GF-6)卫星于2018年成功发射,2019-03正式投入使用。由于GF-6宽幅相机的WFV(Wide Field of View)影像较GF-1的同类影像新增2个红边波段,将会提高对农业、林业、草原等资源监测能力。为了分析GF-6的WFV影像在人工林分类方面的能力,促进高分数据在林业领域的应用,本文选取广西高峰林场为研究区,以最新的GF-6 WFV影像为数据源,结合地面实测类型数据,进行广西南宁高峰林场的桉树,杉木等人工林类型提取。主要运用随机森林(random forests)的分层分类法:首先计算6种植被指数,并利用随机森林法进行植被指数的特征优选,然后确定4种波段组合数据集的分类方案,4种数据集分别为(1)无红边的前4个波段,(2)有红边的8个波段,(3) 8个波段加上未优化的植被指数特征组合,(4) 8个波段加上优化的植被指数特征组合。再进行WFV影像4种数据集的随机森林分类,随机森林采用分类回归树(CART)算法来生成分类树,结合了bagging和随机选择特征变量的优点,是一种有效的分类方法。最后比较4个方案的分类结果并进行精度验证。结果表明:方案2比方案1精度提高了4.99%,Kappa系数提高了0.058。说明包含红边的8波段数据比4个波段数据精度有大幅提升。方案4的8波段加上优化植被指数特征组合的分类精度最高,达到了85.38%,比方案2包含红边波段组和方案1无红边波段组的精度分别提高了3.98%,8.97%,Kappa系数分别提高了0.046,0.104。说明WFV影像加入红边波段比无红边波段精度明显增高。由结果可知,红边指数的引入,增强了植被信息,能够较准确地反映人工林类型特征差异,明显提升了人工林的分类精度。本研究方法可以有效改善广西人工林类型信息提取效果,为GF-6影像质量的评价及其在林业应用潜力提供科学参考依据。     

Segmentation-based classification of hyperspectral imagery using projected and correlation clustering techniques

A partitional clustering-based segmentation is used to carry out supervised classification for hyperspectral images. The main contribution of this study lies in the use of projected and correlation partitional clustering techniques to perform image segmentation. These types of clustering techniques have the capability to concurrently perform clustering and feature/band reduction, and are also able to identify different sets of relevant features for different clusters. Using these clustering techniques segmentation map is obtained, which is combined with the pixel-level support vector machines (SVM) classification result, using majority voting. Experiments are conducted over two hyperspectral images. Combination of pixel-level classification result with the segmentation maps leads to significant improvement of accuracies in both the images. Additionally, it is also observed that, classified maps obtained using SVM combined with projected and correlation clustering techniques results in higher accuracies as compared to classified maps obtained from SVM combined with other partitional clustering techniques.     

用基于知识的决策树方法分层提取矿区土地类型——以湖北大冶为例

以湖北大冶为研究区,采用多时相陆地卫星遥感图像,通过不同波段组合,以及ironoxide指数和归一化差异植被指数(NDVI)等,详细分析了各地表地物光谱特征和空间特征,建立了研究区分类知识库表,采用决策二叉树法进行分类,得到了高精度分类结果图。基于不同时相分类结果的变化检测,通过对研究区水体污染、矿区复垦、耕地变化等分析,认为从1986～2002年,研究区水质虽有一定改善,但矿区植被退化严重,耕地大量减少,停产矿区复垦仅为20%,为合理保护矿区生态环境和科学管理采矿企业提供了有用资料。