North Carolina’s forest disturbance and timber production assessed using time series Landsat observations

Wood products provide a relatively long-term carbon storage mechanism. Due to lack of consistent datasets on these products, however, it is difficult to determine their carbon contents. The main purpose of this study was to quantify forest disturbance and timber product output (TPO) using time series Landsat observations for North Carolina. The results revealed that North Carolina had an average forest disturbance rate of 178,000 ha per year from 1985 to 2010. The derived disturbance products were found to be highly correlated with TPO survey data, explaining up to 87% of the total variance of county level industrial roundwood production. State level TPO estimates derived using the Landsat-based disturbance products tracked those derived from ground-based survey data closely. The TPO modeling approach developed in this study complements the ground-based TPO surveys conducted by the US Forest Service. It allows derivation of TPO estimates for the years that did not have TPO survey data, and may be applicable in other regions or countries where at least some ground-based survey data on timber production are available for model development and dense time series Landsat observations exist for developing annual forest disturbance products.     

北斗Ⅱ载波相位差分定位法在高填方变形监测中的应用

通过对北斗Ⅱ载波相位差分定位技术在高填方变形监测中的应用研究,包括实时动态差分定位(RTK)和静态相对定位,构建了完整的北斗Ⅱ高填方变形监测软硬件系统。该系统采用基于贯序极限学习机的卫星信号周跳探测与修复方法进行数据预处理,并利用基于卫星历元数的分层置信滤波算法对静态相对定位结果进行修正,提高了定位结果的准确性和可靠性。通过自制的精度测试装置,以百分表和钢尺测量的位移变化量为相对真值,完成了上述变形监测系统的精度试验。试验结果表明:该系统的RTK高程测量精度优于2 cm,静态高程测量精度优于2 mm,静态水平位移测量精度优于1.5 mm,可有效抑制卫星信号周跳和卫星历元数量较少等因素的影响。     

高分辨率遥感影像主干道路提取的感知编组方法

针对高分辨率遥感影像的道路提取受"同物异谱、同谱异物"干扰的问题,该文提出一种基于感知编组的高分辨率遥感影像主干道路自动提取方法:首先,使用Line Segment Detector算法提取影像中直线段信息。然后,利用高分辨率遥感影像上的道路几何特征对直线段进行感知编组;最后,经过长度约束得到道路信息。使用两景影像进行了主干道路提取实验。实验结果表明,两个实验中主干道路提取的完整率、正确率和检测质量都在96%以上。     

开源软件辅助下“微波遥感”实践教学改革与探索

针对“微波遥感”教学中存在的学生动手能力差、实践能力培养欠缺等问题,探索利用开源软件进行实践教学辅助的教学改革。分析了开源软件在实验教学中的优缺点,介绍了微波遥感中常用的开源软件及主要功能。在此基础上,构建了一套开源软件辅助下的“微波遥感”实践教学项目,建立了标准实验数据集,编写了实验指导材料,并通过百度云盘等方式实现了网络共享。通过教学改革,拓展了学生的实践教学途径,提高了学生的实践动手能力及微波遥感数据处理能力。     

模架无线实时变形监测系统的设计与精度标定

介绍了模架无线实时变形监测系统的基本构成和主要工作过程,提出了使用绝对激光跟踪仪对其核心部件位移和角度传感器进行监测精度标定,设计了模架无线实时监测传感器工作和标定试验模型,通过试验分析为传感器精度的判定和升级研发提供了有效的数据支撑。     

基于ARMA模型的基坑沉降监测预测研究

应用ARMA模型对地铁车站基坑监测数据进行预测分析。在参考利用已有的ARMA模型算法进行预报分析的基础上,联合最小二乘原理对模型算法进行改进,结合基坑工程算例,验证了新模型算法的可行性、有效性及稳定性。说明改进之后的新模型算法较老模型算法提高了预测精度且提升了运算效率。     

WorldView-Ⅲ卫星遥感数据在油气管道行业的应用与研究

建设油气输送管道需依据一定比例尺的带状地形图进行施工图设计,本文以WorldView-Ⅲ卫星0.31 m分辨率的遥感立体像对为数据源,利用MapMatrix遥感影像数据处理平台进行立体数据采集,采用AutoCAD和南方CASS软件进行数据编辑,输出满足需要的DLG(数字线划图)。通过比对地面检查点与DLG成果来研究所得DLG的平面和高程精度,为高分辨率遥感技术在油气输送管道行业探索了新的应用方向。     

Landscape transform and spatial metrics for mapping spatiotemporal land cover dynamics using Earth Observation data-sets

Analysis of Earth observation (EO) data, often combined with geographical information systems (GIS), allows monitoring of land cover dynamics over different ecosystems, including protected or conservation sites. The aim of this study is to use contemporary technologies such as EO and GIS in synergy with fragmentation analysis, to quantify the changes in the landscape of the Rajaji National Park (RNP) during the period of 19 years (1990–2009). Several statistics such as principal component analysis (PCA) and spatial metrics are used to understand the results. PCA analysis has produced two principal components (PC) and explained 84.1% of the total variance, first component (PC1) accounted for the 57.8% of the total variance while the second component (PC2) has accounted for the 26.3% of the total variance calculated from the core area metrics, distance metrics and shape metrics. Our results suggested that notable changes happened in the RNP landscape, evidencing the requirement of taking appropriate measures to conserve this natural ecosystem.     

A comparative analysis of pansharpening techniques on QuickBird and WorldView-3 images

Nowadays, different image pansharpening methods are available, which combine the strengths of different satellite images that have different spectral and spatial resolutions. These different image fusion methods, however, add spectral and spatial distortions to the resultant images depending on the required context. Therefore, a careful selection of the fusion method is required. Simultaneously, it is also essential that the fusion technique should be efficient to cope with the large data. In this paper, we investigated how different pansharpening algorithms perform, when applied to very high-resolution WorldView-3 and QuickBird satellite images effectively and efficiently. We compared these 27 pansharpening techniques in terms of quantitative analysis, visual inspection and computational complexity, which has not previously been formally tested. In addition, 12 different image quality metrics available in literature are used for quantitative analysis purpose.     

Total evaporation estimation for accurate water accounting purposes: an appraisal of various available estimation methods

The estimation of total evaporation is fundamental for water accounting, considering its influence on water availability. Moreover, the current increase in water consumption (e.g. in sub-Saharan Africa and the world over), land cover/use changes, deteriorating water quality and the climate change projections in most regions of the world underscore the need to understand water loss. So far, different approaches have been developed and implemented in estimating the variations of total evaporation, with varying accuracies. The aim of this work was therefore, to provide a review of these different approaches for estimating total evaporation, as well as a detailed discussion of their strengths and weaknesses. Findings from this review have shown that total evaporation estimates derived, using ground-based meteorological and micro-meteorological methods are inadequate for representing its large-scale spatial variations. On the other hand, remote sensing technology, which acquires data at different resolutions (i.e. radiometric, spectral, spatial and temporal), provides timely, up-to-date and relatively accurate spatial estimates of total evaporation over large geographic coverage, for sustainable and effective water accounting, which is key for well-informed and improved management of water resources at both catchment and regional scales. In this regard, more details on the remote sensing-based methods of estimating total evaporation are provided, especially considering the robust technological advancements and its potential in characterizing earth features over time and space. This work has also managed to identify research gaps and challenges in the accurate estimation of total evaporation, using remote sensing, especially with the emergence of more advanced sensors and the characteristics of the landscape.