苏州运河水质的TM分析

本文利用苏州地区陆地卫星TM数据和同期的地面水质监测资料建立了TM图像遥感水质模型,并将该模型应用于TM可见光彩色合成图像的分割处理,得到苏州地区水质空间分布图像。结合苏州运河水网的水文及水污染特征对遥感水质空间分布图像作了分析。结果表明TM数据真实地反映了苏州地区水质的空间分布规律,并得到当地环境监测部门的验证。     

Effect of canal on land use/land cover using remote sensing and GIS

The monitoring of land use/land covers (LULCs) is an indispensable exercise for all those involved in executing policies to optimize the use of natural resources and minimize the ill impacts on the environment. The study here aims at analyzing the changes that occurred in LULC over a time span from 1990 to 2005 using multi date data of a part of Punjab. The digital data consisted of two sets of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data and one set of IRS-1C data. Utilizing hybrid classification technique for interpretation and on field validation, it has been found that canal irrigation leads to changes in LULC as there is a change in cropping pattern as well as increase in water logged area.     

苏南大运河沿线城市热岛现象的卫星遥感分析

本文利用陆地卫星TM热红外波段的数据对苏南大运河沿线城市苏州、常州、镇江的热环境作了分析,了解各市热岛效应的强度,分布和成因,调查了热岛内部的精细结构。研究表明TM热红外图像能较好地揭示城市下垫面的微细热现象的景观结构,反映温度场的分布,可为城市热环境质量评价和热源调查提供丰富的信息。     

Applying Landsat Imagery for Groundwater Development in Egypt

Landsat Thematic Mapper data over the Nile Valley and Delta were analyzed to assist in various phases of groundwater development in Egypt. Land surface features were identified and located in combination with other data stored in a Geographic Information System for input to the final hydrogeological map of this area. Simple vegetation indices were used to delineate the extent of vegetation cover and related to groundwater recharge. Supervised classification techniques were used to separate features such as sabkhas which are areas of high evaporative losses. Detection of upward groundwater seepage at the surface in the winter season was used to calibrate regional groundwater flow models. Possible future applications include estimation of evapotranspiration, determination of irrigation water needs, and improvement of the existing network of groundwater observation wells for water quality purposes.     

Flood Inundation Hazard Modelling Using CCHE2D Hydrodynamic Model and Geospatial Data for Embankment Breaching Scenario of Brahmaputra River in Assam

In many flood prone river basins, water inundates vast areas of land causing loss of life and heavy damage to the dwellings in flood plains. It also impacts agricultural productivity and cause severe economic losses. One of the reasons for flooding in plains of Brahmaputra valley in north east India is embankment breaching. In this study, an attempt was made for probabilistic flood hazard modelling of July 2008 embankment breaching scenario of Brahmaputra river at Matmara village, Lakhimpur district in Assam, based on various numerical simulations with the help of Center for Computational Hydro science and Engineering hydro-dynamic model. The methodology was applied over 2146 km² flood prone area. Data inputs in the study include: Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer Digital Elevation Model, Pre-flood and Post flood satellite images of Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) and other ancillary data. The simulation was carried out for various discharge levels based on flood frequency analysis. The result of the model includes spatial variations of inundated water depth and water velocity. The results were validated by comparing it with the post-flood ETM+ data and flood situation status report of National Informatics Centre. Flood hazard maps were prepared by carrying out a spatial analysis of simulated inundation depth and velocity. It was seen that the majority of flooded area fell into the very high and high categories. This information can be used to plan appropriate cost effective flood mitigation schemes.     

太湖梅梁湖湾蓝藻生物量遥感估算

本文利用陆地卫星TM数据和图像处理方法对太湖富营养化严重的梅梁湖区的浮游蓝藻生物量作了遥感估算。1992年夏季在海梁湖开展了星地同步浮游藻类监测,获得了湖中16个采样点的现场叶绿素a生物量(Q_a)和蓝藻生物量(Q_B)数据,并利用这两组数据分别建立了与差异植被指数DVI的遥感回归模型,从而得到水体中叶绿素a以及蓝藻生物量的空间分布信息。从遥感定量模型出发,运用逐个像元积分统计技术,估算出梅梁湖叶绿素a总量为2133kg、蓝藻总量为178.2t.与地面方法相比,遥感估算方法充分利用了TM数据中的浮游藻类含量分布与变化信息,具有较高的估算精度。     

Analyzing Change in Yellowstone's Terrestrial Emittance with Landsat Imagery

Yellowstone National Park (YNP) contains the world's largest concentration of geothermal features and is legally mandated to protect and monitor these natural features. Remote sensing is a component of the current geothermal monitoring plan. Landsat satellite data have a substantial historical archive and will continue to be collected into the future, making it the only available thermal imagery for historical analysis and long-term monitoring of geothermal areas in the entirety of YNP. Landsat imagery from Thematic Mapper (TM) and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) sensors was used to examine change trajectories for terrestrial emittance among spatial groupings from 1986 to 2007. Trajectories of locations with known change events were also examined. Relationships between the spatial groupings and several change vectors (distance to geologic faults, distance to large water bodies, and distance to earthquake swarms) were explored. The analysis showed the strongest relationship between absolute difference in terrestrial emittance and earthquake swarms, with 34% of the variation explained. Certain known change events were reflected in the change trajectories, while the Landsat imagery was not able to detect other known events. This suggests that Landsat imagery might be a useful tool for monitoring geothermal responses in YNP, but cannot be expected to suffice as the sole monitoring tool.     

Assessing the performance of a large-scale irrigation system by estimations of actual evapotranspiration obtained by Landsat satellite images resampled with cubic convolution

Remote sensing techniques allow monitoring the Earth surface and acquiring worthwhile information that can be used efficiently in agro-hydrological systems. Satellite images associated to computational models represent reliable resources to estimate actual evapotranspiration fluxes, ET_a, based on surface energy balance. The knowledge of ET_a and its spatial distribution is crucial for a broad range of applications at different scales, from fields to large irrigation districts. In single plots and/or in irrigation districts, linking water volumes delivered to the plots with the estimations of remote sensed ET_a can have a great potential to develop new cost-effective indicators of irrigation performance, as well as to increase water use efficiency. With the aim to assess the irrigation system performance and the opportunities to save irrigation water resources at the “SAT Llano Verde” district in Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), the Surface Energy Balance Algorithm for Land (SEBAL) was applied on cloud-free Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) images, processed by cubic convolution resampling method, for three irrigation seasons (May to September 2006, 2007 and 2008). The model allowed quantifying instantaneous, daily, monthly and seasonal ET_a over the irrigation district. The comparison between monthly irrigation volumes distributed by each hydrant and the corresponding spatially averaged ET_a, obtained by assuming an overall efficiency of irrigation network equal to 85%, allowed the assessment of the irrigation system performance for the area served by each hydrant, as well as for the whole irrigation district. It was observed that in all the investigated years, irrigation volumes applied monthly by farmers resulted generally higher than the corresponding evapotranspiration fluxes retrieved by SEBAL, with the exception of May, in which abundant rainfall occurred. When considering the entire irrigation seasons, it was demonstrated that a considerable amount of water could have been saved in the district, respectively equal to 26.2, 28.0 and 16.4% of the total water consumption evaluated in the three years.     

SPOT与TM图像的数字复合试验

陆地卫星TM图像含有丰富的光谱信息,SPOT全色波段图像数据分辨率较高,因此,如何将这两种图像数据有效地结合起来,在遥感应用领域中显得越来越重要。本文研究了SPOT和TM图像数据的数字复合方法。结果表明,复合后的图像提高了分辨率,增加了光谱信息。     

玛曲湿地遥感影像提取及精度分析

以甘肃玛曲县为研究区,以区域湿地遥感信息提取为目标,采用TM多光谱数据和DEM数据,利用归一化植被指数和主成分分析得到的第一主成分作为分类特征,通过对数据的空间特征、波谱特征与统计结果的对比分析,构建湿地信息提取决策树模型,并与非监督分类法、最大似然法相比较,表明基于多特征决策树分类法能够用于湿地专题信息的提取,在研究区有较好的适用性。     

夏季城市热场的卫星遥感分析

利用1998年8月4日上海幅TM6图像,经定位、配准、纠正、图像处理、噪声剔除、亮温标定及特征提取等步骤,得出上海市亮温分布场,同时对其热力景观、细部结构及其成因做了分析。实践证明,TM6图像可作为城市热环境质量评价、生态城市规划的背景资料和依据。     

Agriculture field characterization using aerial photograph and satellite imagery

Successfully delineating management zones that differ in crop productivity is an important component of site-specific management. We compared the effectiveness of the digitally scanned color aerial infrared photographs and digital Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data for delineating within-field zones. The zones delineated using normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) from TM data explained 34% of field yield variance compared with 9% for that from digitally scanned color aerial infrared photograph data. The zones from NDVI using Landsat TM were better able to capture spatial differences in plant growth and relatively stable soil attribute of surface soil organic carbon.     

Use of Landsat Thematic Mapper for urban land use/land cover mapping

Visual interpretation of Landsat Thematic Mapper data coupled with ground checking has been used to extract information for urban areas. The emphasis has been given on development of land use/land cover scheme and image interpretation keys for interpretation and delineation purposes using satellite remote sensing data. Lucknow city and its surroundings have been studied to evaluate the usefulness and potentiality of satellite data particularly Landsat Thematic Mapper for urban area studies. This study has demonstrated that remote sensing can provide a valuable tool for urban data acquisition.     

Motivation,development and validation of a new spectral greenness index: A spectral dimension related to foliage projective cover

A method is presented for the development of a regional Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) spectral greenness index, coherent with a six-dimensional index set, based on a single ETM+ spectral image of a reference landscape. The first three indices of the set are determined by a polar transformation of the first three principal components of the reference image and relate to scene brightness, percent foliage projective cover (FPC) and water related features. The remaining three principal components, of diminishing significance with respect to the reference image, complete the set.The reference landscape, a 2200 km² area containing a mix of cattle pasture, native woodland and forest, is located near Injune in South East Queensland, Australia. The indices developed from the reference image were tested using TM spectral images from 19 regionally dispersed areas in Queensland, representative of dissimilar landscapes containing woody vegetation ranging from tall closed forest to low open woodland. Examples of image transformations and two-dimensional feature space plots are used to demonstrate image interpretations related to the first three indices. Coherent, sensible, interpretations of landscape features in images composed of the first three indices can be made in terms of brightness (red), foliage cover (green) and water (blue). A limited comparison is made with similar existing indices. The proposed greenness index was found to be very strongly related to FPC and insensitive to smoke. A novel Bayesian, bounded space, modelling method, was used to validate the greenness index as a good predictor of FPC. Airborne LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) estimates of FPC along transects of the 19 sites provided the training and validation data. Other spectral indices from the set were found to be useful as model covariates that could improve FPC predictions. They act to adjust the greenness/FPC relationship to suit different spectral backgrounds. The inclusion of an external meteorological covariate showed that further improvements to regional-scale predictions of FPC could be gained over those based on spectral indices alone.     

Principal component transformation method to separate active discharge and recharge areas

A method is proposed to separate active discharge, recharge and intermediate zones from the digital Thematic Mapper TM data. A case study-was carried out in a natural reserve Welenbos (Walen Forest) and adjacent areas in Belgium comprising a total area of 174:3 sq. km. A microcomputer based Geographic Information and Image Processing System have been utilised for the identification of the characteristic of Remote Sensing TM data favourable for hydrological applications. The histogram of remote sensing data showing the characteristics of discharge, recharge and intermediate zones are unique and can be utilised for mathematical modelling purposes. This has a large potential in hydrological applications.     

Landsat 8热红外数据定标参数的变化及其对地表温度反演的影响

Landsat系列卫星上的TIRS热红外传感器数据已被大量应用,针对TIRS数据的地表温度反演也相继开发出一些算法,并有一些研究对TIRS数据的定标及其地表温度反演算法的精度进行了对比。本文主要就TIRS热红外传感器定标参数的变化,结合这些定标参数变化的时间点对有关地表温度反演算法的适用性和有效性进行分析,特别是对劈窗算法是否适合当前的TIRS数据进行了讨论,以使用户能够对Landsat 8 TIRS热红外数据的正确使用有进一步的认识。总的看来,由于视域外杂散光的影响,TIRS数据的定标精度仍达不到设计目标,TIRS第11波段的不确定性仍成倍大于TIRS 10波段。因此,在Landsat团队未彻底解决这一问题之前,同时用TIRS第10、第11这两个差距较大的波段构成的劈窗算法来反演地表温度,其精度存在较大的不确定性,US6-S团队仍在致力于改进第11波段的精度,改进后的波段可以用劈窗策法。目前应以TIRS第10单波段的方式来反演地表温度为宜。     

基于影像的Landsat TM/ETM+数据正规化技术

阐述了基于影像的LandsatTM／ETM^＋的数据正规化技术及其发展。该技术通过将Landsat影像的亮度值转换成传感器处的辐射值和反射率采对影像进行辐射校正。实例表明，使用正规化技术处理后的影像可以明显削弱日照和大气的影响，去除它们产生的噪声；其所书的传感器处的反射率与地面实测反射率的RMS值非常小。     

Feasible conversion degree of dryland to paddy field in Jinxian County,Jiangxi province,China

The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the feasibility of conversion from dryland to paddy field in Jinxian County under the water resources constraint and dryland suitability condition. We constructed a water resources balance model to evaluate irrigation needs and a dryland suitability model that coupled various spatial data layers. Our research showed that under the water resources constraint, the amount of conversion from dryland to paddy field was 26,971.69 ha and the feasible conversion degree of dryland to paddy field was 0.84, while under the dryland suitability condition, it was 23,262.74 ha and 0.72, respectively. According to the principle of maximum constraint, we conclude that the feasible conversion degree of dryland to paddy field was 0.72. This research can provide an objective and scientific basis for carrying out a programme of farmland conversion in counties of China as well as similar areas worldwide.     

Review of Alternative Methods for Estimating Terrestrial Emittance and Geothermal Heat Flux for Yellowstone National Park Using Landsat Imagery

Yellowstone National Park (YNP) is legally mandated to monitor geothermal features for their future preservation, and remote sensing is a component of the current monitoring plan. Landsat imagery was explored as a tool for mapping terrestrial emittance and geothermal heat flux for this purpose. Several methods were compared to estimate terrestrial emittance and geothermal heat flux (GHF) using images from 2007 (Landsat Thematic Mapper) and 2002 (Landsat Thematic Mapper Plus). Accurate estimations were reasonable when compared to previously established values and known patterns but were likely limited due to inherent properties of Landsat data, the effects of solar radiation, and variation among geothermal areas. Landsat data can be valuable for calculation of GHF in YNP. The method suggested in this paper is not highly parameterized. Landsat data provide the means to calculate GHF for all of YNP and have the potential to enable scientists to identify locations for in-depth study.