A rule-based parameter aided with object-based classification approach for extraction of building and roads from WorldView-2 images

Roads and buildings constitute a significant proportion of urban areas. Considerable amount of research has been done on the road and building extraction from remotely sensed imagery. However, a few of them have been concentrating on using only spectral information. This study presents a comparison between three object-based models for urban features’ classification, specifically roads and buildings, from WorldView-2 satellite imagery. The three applied algorithms are support vector machines (SVMs), nearest neighbour (NN) and proposed rule-based system. The results indicated that the proposed rules in this study, despite the spectral complexity of land cover types, performed a satisfactory output with an overall accuracy of 92.92%. The advantages offered by the proposed rules were not provided by other two applied algorithms and it revealed the highest accuracy compared to SVM and NN. The overall accuracy for SVM was 76.76%, which is almost similar to the result achieved by NN (77.3%).     

耦合WorldView-2和珠海一号影像的红树林物种分布

红树林物种遥感分类受影像分辨率、波段信息、分类策略、影像特征选择方法等因素影响。现有的红树林物种遥感分类研究大多关注于分类精度的比较,较少报道商业高分与国产高光谱卫星的结合在物种分类的应用。基于湛江高桥红树林保护区的高分（WorldView-2）和高光谱（珠海一号）卫星影像,本文旨在利用随机森林分类方法,比较不同特征选择算法（极端梯度提升（XGBoost）、极端随机树（ERT）、连续投影算法（SPA））和不同空间分辨率（WorldView-2影像从0.5 m的分辨率重采样为1 m、2 m、4 m、8 m、10 m）对红树林物种分类精度的影响,并耦合WorldView-2与珠海一号影像研究红树林物种空间分布格局及影响因素。每种空间分辨率的WorldView-2影像提取248个特征（52个光谱特征及196个纹理特征）,珠海一号影像提取117个光谱特征。结果表明,XGBoost方法优于ERT和SPA,在影像特征选择中具有巨大优势;与其他空间分辨率相比,2 m分辨率的WorldView-2影像具有更高的分类精度;耦合WorldView-2和珠海一号影像的分类精度（分辨率：2 m,总体精度：88.98%,kappa系数：0.846）高于单一的WorldView-2影像（分辨率：2 m,总体精度：83.47%,kappa系数：0.768）和珠海一号影像（分辨率：10 m,总体精度：78.50%,kappa系数：0.703）;另外,林窗、高程、离岸距离一定程度上影响红树林物种分布格局。本文表明WorldView-2与珠海一号高光谱影像的结合在景观及区域尺度上精确提取红树林物种信息具有巨大潜力,有利于红树林生物多样性保护及科学管理。     

结合正交变换和多分辨率分析的全色锐化融合方法

针对单独使用成份替代方法和多分辨率分析方法的不足,该文提出一种基于光谱图像数据回归和正交颜色空间变换的成分替代图像融合方法;在此基础上,将成分替代与多分辨率分析的思想相结合,进一步提升融合方法的光谱保真性能。将所提方法应用于ETM+图像数据集进行全色锐化的实验,通过与其他几种具有代表性的全色锐化方法进行比较,证明得到的融合结果具有更高的质量。     

WorldView-2影像与OLI影像协同岩性模糊分类

Landsat系列、ASTER等中等空间分辨率遥感数据（中分数据）覆盖了碳酸盐矿物、粘土矿物、铁氧化物矿物等矿物的诊断光谱区间,广泛应用于矿物、岩石信息提取,但受限于空间分辨率,混合像元现象明显,严重制约了其岩性分类精度。WorldView-2、QuickBird等高空间分辨率遥感数据（高分数据）提供了岩石地层表面丰富的空间结构信息,同时空间分辨率的提高也是缓解混合像元效应的最有效途径,但高分数据覆盖的光谱区间往往较窄,难以满足大多数特征吸收谱段位于短波红外、热红外区间的矿物、岩石信息提取。在岩性自动分类方法上,前人研究中仍以采用基于像元的分类方法为主,分类结果的“椒盐现象（Salt-and-pepper,出现在分类结果图中大量孤立的错分点或小图斑）”严重。为结合中分数据的光谱信息优势和高分数据的空间结构信息优势,同时减少基于像元的岩性分类方法中的“椒盐现象”,提高岩性自动分类精度,本文以Landsat 8 OLI数据和WorldView-2数据为例,提出了一种协同中、高分遥感数据进行面向对象的岩性模糊分类的方法。首先通过“结构协同”和“光谱协同”方案对WorldView-2数据和OLI数据进行信息协同,利用主成分变换对协同后数据的纹理信息和光谱信息进行压缩和增强,然后将增强后的纹理信息和光谱信息进行波段绑定,并进行多尺度分割。根据岩性单元间的光谱特征和纹理特征的差异,构建各岩性单元的模糊逻辑隶属度函数,实现对研究区岩性的模糊分类。实验结果表明,该方法成功划分了岩性单元的分布,总体岩性分类精度为89.35％。     

WorldView-1卫星影像处理方法初探

有理函数模型(RFM)是与具体传感器无关的通用的模型。经试验结果得出,利用RFM并辅以适量的GCP能及时快速精准的处理WorldView-1高分辨率遥感卫星影像,有利于发挥其在国民经济中的巨大潜力。     

Testing the discrimination and detection limits of WorldView-2 imagery on a challenging invasive plant target

Invasive plants pose significant threats to biodiversity and ecosystem function globally, leading to costly monitoring and management effort. While remote sensing promises cost-effective, robust and repeatable monitoring tools to support intervention, it has been largely restricted to airborne platforms that have higher spatial and spectral resolutions, but which lack the coverage and versatility of satellite-based platforms. This study tests the ability of the WorldView-2 (WV2) eight-band satellite sensor for detecting the invasive shrub mesquite (Prosopis spp.) in the north-west Pilbara region of Australia. Detectability was challenged by the target taxa being largely defoliated by a leaf-tying biological control agent (Gelechiidae: Evippe sp. #1) and the presence of other shrubs and trees. Variable importance in the projection (VIP) scores identified bands offering greatest capacity for discrimination were those covering the near-infrared, red, and red-edge wavelengths. Wavelengths between 400 nm and 630 nm (coastal blue, blue, green, yellow) were not useful for species level discrimination in this case. Classification accuracy was tested on three band sets (simulated standard multispectral, all bands, and bands with VIP scores ≥1). Overall accuracies were comparable amongst all band-sets (Kappa = 0.71–0.77). However, mesquite omission rates were unacceptably high (21.3%) when using all eight bands relative to the simulated standard multispectral band-set (9.5%) and the band-set informed by VIP scores (11.9%). An incremental cover evaluation on the latter identified most omissions to be for objects <16 m². Mesquite omissions reduced to 2.6% and overall accuracy significantly improved (Kappa = 0.88) when these objects were left out of the confusion matrix calculations. Very high mapping accuracy of objects >16 m² allows application for mapping mesquite shrubs and coalesced stands, the former not previously possible, even with 3 m resolution hyperspectral imagery. WV2 imagery offers excellent portability potential for detecting other species where spectral/spatial resolution or coverage has been an impediment. New generation satellite sensors are removing barriers previously preventing widespread adoption of remote sensing technologies in natural resource management.     

QuickBird遥感全色影像平面精度分析

QuickBird卫星是目前全世界最高分辨率的商用遥感卫星,通过实验对QuickBird遥感影像平面精度进行验证.实验表明,QuickBird标准影像具有良好的内部几何精度,几何纠正后的影像平面坐标绝对误差精度均方根为0.35m.就单纯单点绝对精度来看,已达到1:2000地形图平面精度要求.     

WorldView-2影像双介质摄影测量的浅海地形测绘试验

主要研究利用高分辨率WorldView-2卫星影像和双介质立体摄影测量方法进行浅海地形测绘的可行性,同时解决双介质立体摄影测量精定位算法(即折射改正算法)适用性差的问题。首先依据通用的双介质物像几何关系,提出了一种普适的双介质立体摄影测量折射改正算法;然后以海南省三沙市甘泉岛、珊瑚岛周围浅海区域为试验场,利用两个地区的WorldView-2立体影像,运用双介质立体摄影测量方法进行了浅海地形测绘试验。试验成功提取到了两个地区浅海海底的数字高程模型(DEM)。其中,甘泉岛地区的浅海DEM精度达到2.08 m(剔除其中的高程异常点后的结果)。研究表明:提出的折射改正算法,无论"空中同名光线延长线是否相交"都是适用的,且能改善浅海地形测绘精度。在水体清澈、无海浪情况下,利用相应的WorldView-2立体影像和双介质立体摄影测量方法进行浅海地形测绘是可行的。     

WorldView-2纹理的森林地上生物量反演

使用高空间分辨率卫星WorldView-2的多光谱遥感影像,构建植被指数和纹理因子等遥感因子与森林地上生物量的关系方程,并计算模型估测精度和均方根误差,探索高分辨率数据的光谱与纹理信息在温带森林地上生物量估测应用中的潜力。以黑龙江省凉水自然保护区温带天然林及天然次生林为研究对象,通过灰度共生矩阵(GLCM)、灰度差分向量(GLDV)及和差直方图(SADH)对高分辨率遥感影像进行纹理信息提取,并利用外业调查的74个样地地上生物量与遥感因子建立参数估计模型。提取的遥感因子包括6种植被指数(比值植被指数RVI、差值植被指数DVI、规一化植被指数NDVI、增强植被指数EVI、土壤调节植被指数SAVI和修正的土壤调节植被指数MSAVI)以及3类纹理因子(GLCM、GLDV和SADH)。为避免特征变量个数较多对估测模型造成过拟合,利用随机森林算法对提取的遥感因子进行特征选择,将最优的特征变量输入模型参与建模估测。采用支持向量回归(SVR)进行生物量建模及验证,结果显示选入模型的和差直方图均值(sadh_mean)、灰度共生矩阵方差(glcm_var)和差值植被指数(DVI)等遥感因子对森林地上生物量有较好的解释效果;植被指数+纹理因子组合的模型获得较精确的AGB估算结果(R2=0.85,RMSE=42.30 t/ha),单独使用植被指数的模型精度则较低(R~2=0.69,RMSE=61.13 t/ha)。     

基于稀疏表示和字典学习的全色与多光谱影像融合

Pansharpening方法通过融合多光谱影像的光谱信息和全色影像的空间细节信息来得到高分辨多光谱影像。然而传统的Pansharpening方法易导致产生光谱扭曲和空间信息丢失现象。受到影像稀疏表示超分重建理论启发,本文提出了一种新的基于稀疏表示和字典学习的Pansharpening方法。该方法以影像的高频特征作为训练样本,通过字典学习的方法来获取高低分辨率影像字典,使用正交匹配追踪算法求解出影像的稀疏表示系数,最终通过高分辨影像字典与稀疏系数相乘得到融合影像。实验结果表明:本文提出的方法能很好地保持遥感影像的光谱信息和空间细节信息。     

Assessing soil salinity using WorldView-2 multispectral images in Timpaki,Crete, Greece

Salinization is one of the major soil degradation threats occurring worldwide. This study evaluates the feasibility of operational surface soil salinity mapping based on state-of-the-art Earth Observation (EO) products captured by sensors on-board WorldView-2 (WV2) and Landsat 8 satellites. The proposed methods are tested in Timpaki, south-central Crete,Greece, where brackish water irrigation puts soil health at risk of soil salinization. In all cases, EO products are calibrated against soil samples collected from bare soil locations. Results indicate a moderate correlation of observed EC_e values with the investigated remote sensing parameters. Regarding sensitivity to saline soil, the yellow band displays higher values. Comparison between methods used in the literature shows that those developed specifically for soil salinity, and especially index S5, perform better. The proposed ‘detection index’ and 3D PCA transformation methodology perform reasonably well in detecting areas with high EC_e values and provide a simple and effective operational alternative for saline topsoil detection and mapping.     

遥感影像三维可视化在岩溶漏斗解译中的应用

岩溶漏斗是碳酸盐地区一种常见的地质现象,对工程建设具有重大影响。因此,查清其数量和分布特征对工程建设具有重大意义;传统的岩溶漏斗调查主要通过地面实地考察,工作量大、周期长,本文基于高精度地形图(1∶2 500)和遥感影像,实现了遥感影像三维可视化,真实地再现了地表现实景观,对漏斗调查具有较高解译效率和精度,为工程建设提供了相对准确可靠的地质灾害信息,可有效指导工程设计与施工,对岩溶地区岩溶漏斗调查提供了一种新的技术方法。     

Road condition assessment by OBIA and feature selection techniques using very high-resolution WorldView-2 imagery

Accurate information on the conditions of road asphalt is necessary for economic development and transportation management. In this study, object-based image analysis (OBIA) rule-sets are proposed based on feature selection technique to extract road asphalt conditions (good and poor) using WorldView-2 (WV-2) satellite data. Different feature selection techniques, including support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF) and chi-square (CHI) are evaluated to indicate the most effective algorithm to identify the best set of OBIA attributes (spatial, spectral, textural and colour). The chi-square algorithm outperformed SVM and RF techniques. The classification result based on CHI algorithm achieved an overall accuracy of 83.19% for the training image (first site). Furthermore, the proposed model was used to examine its performance in different areas; and it achieved accuracy levels of 83.44, 87.80 and 80.26% for the different selected areas. Therefore, the selected method can be potentially useful for detecting road conditions based on WV-2 images.     

基于Kompsat和WorldView-2卫星影像解译对比研究

在地理国情普查项目中会综合运用多种卫星影像进行地表覆盖解译作业,常用的影像有WorldView-2、QuickBird、Kompsat、环境卫星等影像。将Kompsat和WorldView-2两种卫星影像进行综合对比并总结二者的适用场景,采用两种不同的自动解译软件分别对两种影像的相同区域进行解译效果对比,分析自动解译各个环节的用时,评价两种影像的解译效果,总结两种影像在地理国情普查项目中的应用建议。探讨了Kompsat和WorldView-2影像适用场景,得出了Kompsat和WorldView-2影像在地理国情普查项目中适用性的结论。     

一种城市高大地物阴影检测方法

针对水体、偏蓝色地物会影响阴影检测精度这一问题,该文提出了一种基于WorldView-2影像的城市高大地物阴影检测方法。首先,在统计分析阴影及典型地物光谱值的基础上,对C1C2C3色彩不变空间中的C3分量利用直方图阈值法分割阴影区域和非阴影区域,分离后的阴影区域中包含了绿色植被信息;然后,利用多波段运算提取植被信息;其次,对最初的阴影植被混合区域和植被区域做逻辑差运算,得到目标阴影区域;最后,对阴影提取结果进行小区域去除和形态学滤波等后处理。实验结果表明,该方法针对WorldView-2影像具有普适性,能够有效避免水体、偏蓝色地物的影响,能够精确、快速地检测阴影区域。     

一种快速的全色和多光谱图像融合算法

针对非下采样Contourlet变换(NSCT)在全色和多光谱图像融合中计算复杂度较高的问题,文章提出了一种快速的基于NSCT和超维彩色空间变换(HCT)相结合的融合算法:采用HCT变换提取多光谱图像的亮度分量,使得任意波段的多光谱图像跟全色图像融合的计算复杂度降低;采用NSCT进行融合,使得融合结果的空间分辨率提高的同时,保留原光谱特性。基于Pleiades卫星图像的实验结果表明,跟NSCT变换相比,本文提出的融合算法的融合结果空间细节更加突出,光谱畸变更小,同时计算复杂度显著降低。     

基于DInSAR技术与WorldView-2影像的煤矿塌陷区信息提取研究

结合DIn SAR与World View-2光学遥感解译技术,对研究区进行多源数据处理,提取研究地区的煤矿塌陷区信息,然后对处理后的两种结果进行对比。二者既有区别,又可以互补,最终在研究区形成完整的塌陷区信息。     

高光谱遥感及其影像空间结构特征分析

分析了高光谱遥感技术相对于传统的低光谱分辨率遥感的特点,以及其在环境监测等领域的应用。然后分析了高光谱影像的空间结构特征,并指出高光谱影像的空间结构特征在实际应用中也具有很重要的意义。最后,本文使用了统计学分析方法对实验影像的空间结构特征进行了分析,并提出了一个可用于描述高光谱影像空间特征的统计学参数。     

Optimizing the spatial resolution of WorldView-2 imagery for discriminating forest vegetation at subspecies level in KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa

The objective of this study was to identify an appropriate spatial resolution for discriminating forest vegetation at subspecies level. WorldView-2 imagery was progressively resampled to coarser spatial resolutions. At a compartment level, 30 × 30-m subsets were generated across forest compartments to represent the five forest subspecies investigated in this study. From the centre of each subset, the spatial resolution of the original WorldView-2 image was resampled from 6 to 34-m, with increments of 4-m. The variance was then calculated at every resampled spatial resolution using each of the eight WorldView-2 bands. Based on the sampling theorem, the 3-m spatial resolution provided an appropriate resolution for all subspecies investigated. The WorldView-2 image was subsequently classified using the partial least squares linear discriminant analysis algorithm and the appropriate spatial resolution. An overall classification accuracy of 90% was established with an allocation disagreement of 9 and a quantity disagreement of 1.