SAR interferometric coherence analysis for snow cover mapping in the western Himalayan region

Abstract

Information of snow cover (SC) over Himalayan regions is very important for regional climatological and hydrological studies. Precise monitoring of SC in the Himalayan region is essential for water supply to hydropower stations, irrigation requirements, and flood forecasting. Microwave remote sensing has all weather, day and night earth observation capability unlike optical remote sensing. In this study, spaceborne synthetic aperture radar interferometric (InSAR) coherence analysis is used to monitor SC over Himalayan rugged terrain. The feasibility of monitoring SC using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry depends on the ability to maintain coherence over InSAR pair acquisition time interval. ERS-1/2 InSAR coherence and ENVISAT ASAR InSAR coherence images are analyzed for SC mapping. Data sets of winter and of snow free months of the Himalayan region are taken for interferogram generation. Coherence images of the available data sets show maximum decorrelation in most of the area which indicates massive snowfall in the region in the winter season and melting in the summer. Area showing coherence loss due to decorrelation is mapped as a snow-covered area. The result is validated with field observations of snow depth and it is found that standing snow is inversely related to coherence in the Himalayan region.     

高分三号SAR影像双阈值变化检测

双阈值合成孔径雷达SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar)变化检测算法具有在发现变化区域的同时还能确定地表发生后向散射变化类型的优点。针对广义高斯双阈值最小误差法D-GKIT(Dual Generalized Kittler and Illingworth Thresholding)在进行阈值选取时直方图中不同类别像素灰度级重叠严重时,分割结果容易在尖峰单侧选取出双阈值而导致无法正确分割差异图的问题,本文提出一种结合归一化最大类间方差和广义高斯最小误差法GKIT(Generalized Kittler and Illingworth Thresholding)的双阈值SAR变化检测方法。首先,提出以归一化最大类间方差值作为灰度级重叠程度的判别参数,确定阈值的选取顺序及两个候选区间;然后,利用GKIT在候选区间内进行分割,获取单侧阈值及非变化类拟合函数;最后,提出利用非变化类拟合函数更新后的直方图作为另一侧阈值选取基础进行分割,得到对应分割阈值。以宁波地区高分三号(GF-3)SAR卫星影像作为试验研究数据,结果表明:本文方法能较好地解决灰度级重叠时D-GKIT无法进行正确分割的问题,具有良好的变化检测效果和更强的鲁棒性且达到了利用研究区数据验证利用GF-3号SAR卫星影像进行变化检测研究可行性的目的。     

Updating land cover automatically based on change detection using satellite images: case study of national forests in Southern California

Observing dynamic change patterns and higher-order complexities from remotely sensed images is warranted, but the main challenges include image inconsistency, plant phenological differences, weather variations, and difficulties of incorporating natural conditions into automatic image processing. In this study, we proposed a new algorithm and demonstrated it by producing 2002–2008 and 2010 land-cover maps in heterogeneous Southern California based on an existing 2009 land-cover map. The new algorithm improves the baseline land-cover map quality by discarding potential bad land-cover pixels and dividing each land-cover type into several subclasses. Time series Landsat images were used to detect changed and unchanged areas between baseline year and target year t. Subsequently, for each individual year t, each pixel that was identified as unchanged inherited the baseline classification. Otherwise, each pixel in the changed areas was classified by a similar surrogate majority classifier. The demonstration results in Southern California showed that the land-cover temporal pattern captured the observed successional stages of the ecosystem very well. The accuracy assessment had an overall classification accuracies ranging from 81% to 86% and overall kappa coefficients ranging from 0.79 to 0.83.     

动态变化率与最大差值相结合的陆表生态变化检测

为了实现更大尺度上的陆表生态变化检测,一种基于综合生态指数的动态变化检测方法用于不同时期卫星影像变化信息的提取.本文以东北地区的松嫩平原地表植被覆盖类型作为主要研究对象,2006年和2018年作为变化检测研究的标准年,陆地资源卫星影像数据作为实验数据源.动态变化的主要检测内容划分为年内变化和年际变化,最大差值算法计算影...     

面向类型特征的自适应阈值遥感影像变化检测

为了实现两个不同年份单时相遥感影像之间的土地覆盖变化检测，提出了一种基于土地覆盖类型特征自适应确定阈值的遥感影像变化检测方法。以2015年土地覆盖数据为基础，综合2013年和2015年Landsat 8-OLI影像数据，首先，采用时相不变点群法TIC（Temporally Invariant Cluster）保证了两期影像辐射水平的一致性。其次，对两期影像进行多尺度分割，并在各级尺度下构建分割对象的变化向量。然后，采用最大类间方差的方法分别进行单一变化阈值变化检测以及基于土地覆盖类型的多阈值变化检测分析，并利用目视解译样点进行精度验证与评价。结果表明：（1）单一阈值变化检测结果的总体精度为79.6%，Kappa系数为0.601，多阈值变化检测结果的总体精度为87.2%，Kappa系数为0.741，多阈值变化检测具有更高的精度。（2）进一步逐土地覆盖类型精度评价可知，多阈值变化检测能在一定程度上减弱物候期的影响，具有更高的稳定性。该研究以土地覆盖数据为底图，逐类别的选取变化检测阈值，提高了变化区域检测的精度，在大范围高效更新土地覆盖数据的应用中具有一定的参考价值。     

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar change detection for specific land cover types

This paper presents a supervised polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) change detection method applied to specific land cover types. For each pixel of a PolSAR image, its target scattering vector can be modeled as having a complex multivariate normal distribution. Based on this assumption, the joint distribution of two corresponding vectors in a pair of PolSAR images is derived. Then, a generalized likelihood ratio test statistic for the equality of two likelihood functions of such joint distribution is considered and a maximum likelihood distance measure for specific land cover types is presented. Subsequently, the Kittler and Illingworth minimum error threshold segmentation method is applied to extract the specific changed areas. Experiments on two repeat-pass Radarsat-2 fully polarimetric images of Suzhou, China, demonstrate that the proposed change detection method gives a good performance in determining the specific changed areas in PolSAR images, especially the areas that have changed to water.     

基于时空域密度异常的土地利用/土地覆盖短期变化检测

论文分析了时间序列遥感影像中土地利用/土地覆盖短期变化的特点及其时空异常特征, 认为和环境、物候等因素造成的影像变化相比, 由人为活动引起的土地利用/土地覆盖变化具有典型的时间和空间异常特征, 并提出了基于密度异常的土地利用短期变化检测方法。研究工作选取珠江口地区1—5月作物生长期间的3个时间序列Radarsat雷达影像进行试验, 在影像分割的基础上, 构建了基于对象的特征变化矢量, 并将密度异常检测算法(DBAD)扩展到变化矢量的N维特征空间上, 运用随机搜索策略确定检测参数, 对Radarsat时间序列变化矢量中的“小模式”事件进行了检测。检测结果认为, 密度异常检测算法检测的是变化矢量在特征空间的密度分布, 与变化矢量的强度和方向无关, 因此能在时间序列影像中分离出由典型的、正常的作物生长或农事活动引起的影像光谱或回波变化, 进而识别出由人为活动或突发事件导致的土地利用/土地覆盖变化, 这是通常的图像差值等方法难以做到的。进一步的抽样检测说明, 密度异常检测方法对新增建设用地的检测准确率最高(>88%);林地地表覆盖相对稳定, 检测误差也很低(8%);农用地和养殖水面的异常变化检测误差在11%—22%之间;较大的检测误差主要集中在建设用地、农用地和未利用地之间的转换(16%—25%);此外, 养殖水面的检测误差主要集中在河流沿岸及水面变化较大的养殖区域。影像分割结果特别是一些线状分割图斑以及混合地类图斑对误差也有一定的影响。     

DSSRM级联分割的SAR图像变化检测

SRM(Statistical Region Merging)分割算法具有快速、稳定和抗噪强的优点,基于此,本文提出一种基于DSSRM(Dynamic Sorting Statistical Region Merging)级联分割的SAR图像变化检测方法。首先,针对SRM算法基于单特征静态排序导致的过分割问题,提出一种动态排序模式的DSSRM算法以减少差异图像分割错误,该算法建立基于合并区域的多特征马氏距离排序准则,在每次合并之后更新区域邻接矩阵并重新排序;然后,基于互信息最小化准则构造多通道差异数据集以提高算法对区域合并的约束能力;最后,提出一种级联分割变化检测框架,第1级利用SRM算法将差异图像映射到超像素空间,第2级采用DSSRM算法对超像素进行动态合并获得收敛的分割结果,第3级采用简化SRM方法进行三次合并获得最终的变化检测图。实验结果表明,该方法可以获得比SRM方法和目前流行方法更好的检测性能。     

Unsupervised Change Detection in Multitemporal SAR Images Using MRF Models

An unsupervised change-detection method that considers the spatial contextual information in a log-ratio difference image generated from multitemporal SAR images is proposed. A Markov random filed (MRF) model is particularly employed to exploit statistical spatial correlation of intensity levels among neighboring pixels. Under the assumption of the independency of pixels and mixed Gaussian distribution in the log-ratio difference image, a stochastic and iterative EM-MPM change-detection algorithm based on an MRF model is developed. The EM-MPM algorithm is based on a maximiser of posterior marginals (MPM) algorithm for image segmentation and an expectation-maximum (EM) algorithm for parameter estimation in a completely automatic way. The experiment results obtained on multitemporal ERS-2 SAR images show the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Unsupervised change detection in multitemporal SAR images using MRF models

An unsupervised change-detection method that considers the spatial contextual information in a log-ratio difference image generated from multitemporal SAR images is proposed. A Markov random filed (MRF) model is particularly employed to exploit statistical spatial correlation of intensity levels among neighboring pixels. Under the assumption of the independency of pixels and mixed Gaussian distribution in the log-ratio difference image, a stochastic and iterative EM-MPM change-detection algorithm based on an MRF model is developed. The EM-MPM algorithm is based on a maximiser of posterior marginals (MPM) algorithm for image segmentation and an expectation-maximum (EM) algorithm for parameter estimation in a completely automatic way. The experiment results obtained on multitemporal ERS-2 SAR images show the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

综合多特征的极化SAR图像随机森林分类算法

为抑制相干斑噪声对极化SAR图像分类结果的干扰,本文提出一种综合多特征的极化SAR图像随机森林分类方法。该方法首先利用简单线性迭代聚类(SLIC)算法生成超像素作为分类单元;然后,基于高维极化特征图像,利用训练好的随机森林模型,统计决策树的分类投票数,计算各超像素的类别概率;最后,利用超像素间的空间邻域特征,采用概率松弛算法(PLR)迭代修正超像素的类别后验概率,并依据最大后验概率(MAP)准则得到分类结果;实现综合利用超像素和空间邻域特征,降低相干斑噪声干扰的极化SAR图像分类方法。实验对比结果表明:本文方法能得有效抑制极化SAR图像中相干斑噪声的干扰,得到高精度且光滑连续的分类结果。     

一种基于卷积神经网络的SAR变化检测方法

为了降低合成孔径雷达(SAR)影像中相干斑对变化检测的影响、减少标注样本的人工成本,该文发展了一种联合分层模糊C均值聚类(FCM)与卷积神经网络的非监督SAR变化检测方法。首先,利用邻域均值比算子计算前后时相的差异图,并利用分层FCM将差异图非监督地初始分割为变化类、非变化类及待确定类别像素;然后,为解决非监督选取样本时出现的样本不均衡问题,提出一种频率不变降采样的数据抽样方法,选取高置信度的变化与非变化样本用于网络训练;最后,利用训练完成的神经网络对待确定类别像素进行分类,得到最终变化结果。采用真实SAR影像数据进行实验。结果表明,该文方法方便有效,具有较高的检测精度。     

利用遥感方法对黑龙江沿岸建筑用地变化的检测

探讨利用遥感方法,采用不同时相的遥感及地形图数据,经技术处理,对黑龙江沿岸部分地区的建筑用地的变化进行检测,并对检测的结果进行分析论证。     

Multi-year MODIS active fire type classification over the Brazilian Tropical Moist Forest Biome

ABSTRACT

The Brazilian Tropical Moist Forest Biome (BTMFB) spans almost 4 million km² and is subject to extensive annual fires that have been categorized into deforestation, maintenance, and forest fire types. Information on fire types is important as they have different atmospheric emissions and ecological impacts. A supervised classification methodology is presented to classify the fire type of MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) active fire detections using training data defined by consideration of Brazilian government forest monitoring program annual land cover maps, and using predictor variables concerned with fuel flammability, fuel load, fire behavior, fire seasonality, fire annual frequency, proximity to surface transportation, and local temperature. The fire seasonality, local temperature, and fuel flammability were the most influential on the classification. Classified fire type results for all 1.6 million MODIS Terra and Aqua BTMFB active fire detections over eight years (2003–2010) are presented with an overall fire type classification accuracy of 90.9% (kappa 0.824). The fire type user’s and producer’s classification accuracies were respectively 92.4% and 94.4% (maintenance fires), 88.4% and 87.5% (forest fires), and, 88.7% and 75.0% (deforestation fires). The spatial and temporal distribution of the classified fire types are presented and are similar to patterns reported in the available recent literature.     

A long-term Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) data-set for environmental studies

Recently, five Global LAnd Surface Satellite (GLASS) products have been released: leaf area index (LAI), shortwave broadband albedo, longwave broadband emissivity, incident short radiation, and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR). The first three products cover the years 1982–2012 (LAI) and 1981–2010 (albedo and emissivity) at 1–5 km and 8-day resolutions, and the last two radiation products span the period 2008–2010 at 5 km and 3-h resolutions. These products have been evaluated and validated, and the preliminary results indicate that they are of higher quality and accuracy than the existing products. In particular, the first three products have much longer time series, and are therefore highly suitable for various environmental studies. This paper outlines the algorithms, product characteristics, preliminary validation results, potential applications and some examples of initial analysis of these products.     

A new approach for vegetation change detection in urban areas

Because of complex change in urban areas, modified CVA application based on mask techniques can minify the effect of non-vegetation changes and improve upon efficiency to a great extent. Moreover, drawing from methods in polar plots, the technique measures changes with absolute angular and total magnitude of PVI calculated on the basis of linear fit with least-square estimation and GVI calculated using 3D G-S transformation. Finally, this application is performed with Landsat ETM+ imageries of Wuhan in 2002 and 2005, and assessed by error matrix, in the way it could detect change pixels 94.91% correct, and the total consistent coefficient Kappa and could reach to 0.85. The evaluation result demonstrates this new application trends as an efficient and effective alternative to urban vegetation change extraction.     

A new approach for vegetation change detection in urban areas

IntroductionVegetation distribution and change is regardedas ani mportant sign of urban environment . Withcity expanding and population increasing, herecomes a series of problems on environment ,andmoreover ,greening ratio is regarded as a stand-ard of ci…     

高分辨率遥感影像场景变化检测的相似度方法北大核心CSCD

针对传统高分辨率遥感影像场景变化检测流程复杂且严重依赖分类结果的问题,本文提出了一种顾及场景全局与局部相似性的变化检测方法。首先,将同一区域两个时相的遥感影像裁切成固定尺寸的图像块,构造场景对图像库,并划分为训练集和测试集;其次,构建融合场景全局与局部相似性的双分支卷积神经网络,实现场景相似度学习;然后,利用训练的相似度学习网络提取训练集场景相似度,并通过阈值遍历的方法得到最佳的相似度阈值;最后,基于相似度阈值将测试集场景对划分为变化场景和未变化场景,得到最终的变化检测结果。试验结果表明,本文方法的总体精度为0.94,Kappa系数为0.88,优于传统的分类后变化检测方法,是一种简单有效的场景变化检测方法。     

遥感影像变化检测方法探讨

利用同一区域不同时相的遥感影像进行变化检测的应用一直是遥感应用研究的热点之一.本文对遥感变化检测技术的研究现状和新进展进行了一定的归纳和总结,对以往分类方法进行了介绍,分别对基于像素、基于对象以及结合特定理论的变化检测方法进行了重点讨论,并对每种方法涉及的理论和最新研究进展进行了评述.     

基于时相变化的晴空条件下Himawari-8 AHI火点检测

Himawari-8静止气象卫星具有高空间分辨率、高观测频次和高时效特点,对于火点检测具有很强优势。对Himawari-8卫星的3.9μm和11.2μm两通道亮温进行了连续时相变化研究,得出两通道的亮温在时间上的变化差值稳定且规律明显。根据两通道的亮温时相特征,考虑白天可见光对3.9μm通道的影响,并结合火点产生时引起的亮温变化特征,提出了适用于晴空条件下改进的火点检测算法。在多处进行了此算法的实验,例如2018-11-27 T 16:40(UTC时)河北张家口市桥东区一化工厂附近发生的严重爆炸起火事件以及2019-02-28澳大利亚西南部发生的火灾事件,均快速有效的检测到了火点。实验表明,改进的火点检测算法能很好的进行火点检测,并能解决晨昏交界、冰雪下垫面、常规火源点、太阳耀光等火点检测的难题。