遥感图像分类方法研究综述

 综述了遥感图像监督分类和非监督分类中的各种方法，介绍了各种方法的优缺点、适用领域和应用情况，并作了简单评述，最后，展望了遥感图像分类方法研究发展方向和研究热点。     

Quantitative evaluation of variations in rule-based classifications of land cover in urban neighbourhoods using WorldView-2 imagery

The increasing availability of high resolution imagery has triggered the need for automated image analysis techniques, with reduced human intervention and reproducible analysis procedures. The knowledge gained in the past might be of use to achieving this goal, if systematically organized into libraries which would guide the image analysis procedure. In this study we aimed at evaluating the variability of digital classifications carried out by three experts who were all assigned the same interpretation task. Besides the three classifications performed by independent operators, we developed an additional rule-based classification that relied on the image classifications best practices found in the literature, and used it as a surrogate for libraries of object characteristics. The results showed statistically significant differences among all operators who classified the same reference imagery. The classifications carried out by the experts achieved satisfactory results when transferred to another area for extracting the same classes of interest, without modification of the developed rules.     

Hybrid region merging method for segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing images

Image segmentation remains a challenging problem for object-based image analysis. In this paper, a hybrid region merging (HRM) method is proposed to segment high-resolution remote sensing images. HRM integrates the advantages of global-oriented and local-oriented region merging strategies into a unified framework. The globally most-similar pair of regions is used to determine the starting point of a growing region, which provides an elegant way to avoid the problem of starting point assignment and to enhance the optimization ability for local-oriented region merging. During the region growing procedure, the merging iterations are constrained within the local vicinity, so that the segmentation is accelerated and can reflect the local context, as compared with the global-oriented method. A set of high-resolution remote sensing images is used to test the effectiveness of the HRM method, and three region-based remote sensing image segmentation methods are adopted for comparison, including the hierarchical stepwise optimization (HSWO) method, the local-mutual best region merging (LMM) method, and the multiresolution segmentation (MRS) method embedded in eCognition Developer software. Both the supervised evaluation and visual assessment show that HRM performs better than HSWO and LMM by combining both their advantages. The segmentation results of HRM and MRS are visually comparable, but HRM can describe objects as single regions better than MRS, and the supervised and unsupervised evaluation results further prove the superiority of HRM.     

Image-based correlation of Laser Scanning point cloud time series for landslide monitoring

Very high resolution monitoring of landslide kinematics is an important aspect for a physical understanding of the failure mechanisms and for quantifying the associated hazard. In the last decade, the potential of Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) to monitor slow-moving landslides has been largely demonstrated but accurate processing methods are still needed to extract useful information available in point cloud time series. This work presents an approach to measure the 3D deformation and displacement patterns from repeated TLS surveys. The method is based on the simplification of a 3D matching problem in a 2D matching problem by using a 2D statistical normalized cross-correlation function. The computed displacement amplitudes are compared to displacements (1) calculated with the classical approach of Iterative Closest Point and (2) measured from repeated dGPS observations. The performance of the method is tested on a 3 years dataset acquired at the Super-Sauze landslide (South French Alps). The observed landslide displacements are heterogeneous in time and space. Within the landslide, sub-areas presenting different deformation patterns (extension, compression) are detected by a strain analysis. It is demonstrated that pore water pressure changes within the landslide is the main controlling factor of the kinematics.     

Book review

Ocean Floor Mining by John S. Pearson. Noyes Data Corporation, Park Ridge, New Jersey, 1975. 201 pp., $24.00.

Offshore Drilling Technology by Frank R. Carmichael. Noyes Data Corporation, Park Ridge, New Jersey, 1975. 392 pp., $36.00.     

Stratigraphy, mineralogy, and origin of layered deposits inside Terby crater, Mars

The 174 km diameter Terby impact crater (28.0°S-74.1°E) located on the northern rim of the Hellas basin displays anomalous inner morphology, including a flat floor and light-toned layered deposits. An analysis of these deposits was performed using multiple datasets from Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter missions, with visible images for interpretation, near-infrared data for mineralogical mapping, and topography for geometry. The geometry of layered deposits was consistent with that of sediments that settled mainly in a sub-aqueous environment, during the Noachian period as determined by crater counts. To the north, the thickest sediments displayed sequences for fan deltas, as identified by 100 m to 1 km long clinoforms, as defined by horizontal beds passing to foreset beds dipping by 6-10° toward the center of the Terby crater. The identification of distinct sub-aqueous fan sequences, separated by unconformities and local wedges, showed the accumulation of sediments from prograding/onlapping depositional sequences, due to lake level and sediment supply variations. The mineralogy of several layers with hydrated minerals, including Fe/Mg phyllosilicates, supports this type of sedimentary environment. The volume of fan sediments was estimated as >5000 km³ (a large amount considering classical martian fan deltas such as Eberswalde (6 km³)) and requires sustained liquid water activity. Such a large sedimentary deposition in Terby crater is characteristic of the Noachian/Phyllosian period during which the environment favored the formation of phyllosilicates. The latter were detected by spectral data in the layered deposits of Terby crater in three distinct layer sequences. During the Hesperian period, the sediments experienced strong erosion, possibly enhanced by more acidic conditions, forming the current morphology with three mesas and closed depressions. Small fluvial valleys and alluvial fans formed subsequently, attesting to late fluvial processes dated as late Early to early Late Hesperian. After this late fluvial episode, the Terby impact crater was submitted to aeolian processes and permanent cold conditions with viscous flow features. Therefore, the Terby crater displays, in a single location, geologic features that characterize the three main periods of time on Mars, with the presence of one of the thickest sub-aqueous fan deposits reported on Mars. The filling of Terby impact crater is thus one potential “reference geologic cross-section” for Mars stratigraphy.     

像素相位误差的特性

对欠采样图像做天体测量时,往往受像素相位误差的影响.利用高斯函数作为点扩散函数模型进行仿真实验表明,像素相位误差有类似正弦函数的分布,其幅度与拟合模型的半高全宽相对于星像真实的半高全宽的差别有关,拟合模型的半高全宽与星像真实的半高全宽偏差越大,像素相位误差越大.此外还对高斯与ePSF两个函数模型拟合星像位置的精度情况进...     

珊瑚的影像密度恢复南海海表温度

将南海西沙永兴岛 ( 1 6°50′N,1 1 2°2 0′E)西北的造礁珊瑚的岩芯 ,制成 X射线负片。用显微光密度计在 X射线负片上获得沿生长轴方向的影像密度值 ,时间序列为 1 937～ 1 993年。根据影像密度数据 ,计算出珊瑚的各年生长率和钙化率的代用指标。珊瑚生长率和钙化率的代用指标都与 SST呈显著正相关。根据 1 960～ 1 993年的资料统计 ,相关系数分别是 0 .91和 0 .85,从而建立了珊瑚生长率温度计和钙化率代用指标温度计。并用这两个温度计测算到 1 937年 ,揭示出南海的 SST变化既受到全球气候环境变化为主的影响 ,也受到半封闭海域格局的影响     

近现代时期若干北京古旧地图研究与数字化处理

本文介绍了若干幅 1 90 7年至 1 948年间由陆地测量总局等不同权威机构测绘、编制的古旧北京地图 ,为开展近现代时期北京城市地理、土地覆盖变迁研究、为古地图研究与利用提供参考。对古旧地图的应用及数字化技术处理进行了探讨。     

风云二号气象卫星姿态和沿步进方向失配角参数对图像影响的模拟研究

用模拟的方法研究了卫星姿态、沿步进方向失配角参数对风云二号气象卫星图像定位影响及其随时间的变化规律。模拟结果表明, 参数偏差对图像定位的影响有很强的规律性; 参数的偏差将导致图像网格失真和图像定位不准; 不同参数对卫星图像定位的影响不同。由模拟生成的典型误差图像为风云二号高精度图像定位模型的建立和图像定位误差分析提供了依据。