Chronology of an oyster reef on the coast of Bohai Bay, China: Constraints from optical dating using different luminescence signals from fine quartz and polymineral fine grains of coastal sediments

Fossil oyster reefs are indicators of past sea levels, and their formation is usually dated by means of radiocarbon. However, radiocarbon dating of the shells from coastal areas may be complicated by the varying sources of carbon. Here we applied optical dating methods to date the samples from above and below a fossil oyster bed in a section on the coast of Bohai Bay, China. The optical ages of the sediments were used to constrain the oyster bed. Single-aliquot regenerative-dose procedures using the OSL signal from fine grain quartz, the IRSL and post-IR OSL signals from polymineral fine grains were employed to determine equivalent dose (D_e). The behaviors of the different luminescence signals from quartz and polymineral grains during D_e measurements were examined. The results showed that the quartz OSL signal is more reliable than the polymineral IRSL and post-IR OSL signals with respect to dating for these coastal samples. The optical ages indicated that the oyster reef formed between ca. 6.2 and 5.0 ka.     

Implications of broad dose distributions obtained with the single-aliquot regenerative-dose method on quartz fine-grains from loess

Six samples were collected from a section of Peoria Loess in Eustis, North America, for optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of quartz, and all except one (LV90) produced narrow dose distributions. A comparative study was conducted on this sample and on a ‘well-behaved’ sample (LV91), involving other dating methods and examination of the quartz OSL. These investigations revealed differences in the quartz OSL growth with dose, OSL response to thermal treatments and the range of components within the OSL signals. An ultra-fast component was found in LV90 that displayed a higher rate of sensitivity change than the fast component and this had a malign influence on the determination of the equivalent dose. The distinctive luminescence characteristics of LV90 imply either a change in wind dynamics and/or the source area for the silt.     

一种扩展的基于结构检测的最优多视极化SAR相干斑滤波算法

全极化数据的可得,使得利用极化散射矩阵以减少多视全极化SAR图像中的相干斑成为了可能。其中,被称为最优的多视极化白化滤波器（MPWF）就是一个典型例子。然而,为提高滤波器参数估计的精度,同时能够自适应的检测图像中的结构特征,在滤波时采用适当的窗算法是必要的。本文提出了两个有效的窗算法,并用1994年NASA SIR-C/X-SAR,L band,经过四视处理的天山森林的极化数据进行了仿真。实验结果表明,这两种算法不仅很好的达到了降噪效果,而且对图像的纹理信息以及结构特征（即边缘特征、线性特征、强散射体特征）的保持效果是最佳的。     

一种基于正则化方法的SAR图像边缘检测算法

提出了一种基于正则化方法的SAR图像边缘检测算法,并用MSTAR(moving and stationary target acquisitions and recognition)数据进行大量的仿真实验。实验表明,与经典的边缘检测方法相比,该方法能保持图像的细节特征,较好地解决了边缘断裂和抗噪问题,具有较好的边缘检测能力。     

SAR图像保留边缘多窗口相干斑滤除方法

在处理合成孔径雷达（ＳＡＲ）图像中,精确地估计图像的局部统计特性和尽可能多地滤除相干斑都需要较大的窗口尺寸,而这与图像边缘和纹理结构的检测需要较小的窗口尺寸相矛盾。一般滤波器都是二者窗口尺寸的均衡,这必然导致二者都不能取得很好的效果。本文提出的新方法有效的解决了这一矛盾。此方法使处理后的ＳＡＲ图像既保存了边缘和纹理结构,避免了以往滤波器中使边缘变模糊的问题,又有效地滤除了相干斑噪声。     

基于多分辨分析的滤波算法在SAR图像斑点噪声消除中的应用

合成孔径雷达 (SAR)图像一般都存在相干噪声 ,对地物信息的提取及 SAR图像应用的干扰非常严重 ,对此许多人提出了不少处理方法 ,并分析对比了多种滤波算法 ,认为改良 K -均值自适应滤波效果最佳。本文中分析了改良 K -均值自适应滤波法的数学基础的局限性 ,并采用了一种基于多分辨分析的滤波算法 ,该算法通过将噪声 (或较小的结构特征 )与较大的结构特征相分离 ,然后滤出噪声 (或较小的结构特征 ) ,从而达到消除斑点噪声的目的。实验结果证明 ,基于多分辨分析的滤波算法在消除 SAR图像的斑点噪声方面优于改良 K -均值自适应滤波法。     

A data assimilation approach to discharge estimation from space

River discharge is currently monitored by a diminishing network of gauges, which provide a spatially incomplete picture of global discharges. This study assimilated water level information derived from a fused satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image and digital terrain model (DTM) with simulations from a coupled hydrological and hydrodynamic model to estimate discharge in an un‐gauged basin scenario. Assimilating water level measurements led to a 79% reduction in ensemble discharge uncertainty over the coupled hydrological hydrodynamic model alone. Measurement bias was evident, but the method still provided a means of improving estimates of discharge for high flows. The study demonstrates the potential of currently available synthetic aperture radar imagery to reduce discharge uncertainty in un‐gauged basins when combined with model simulations in a data assimilation framework, where sufficient topographic data are available. The work is timely because in the near future the launch of satellite radar missions will lead to a significant increase in the volume of data available for space‐borne discharge estimation. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Wave Height Estimation from SAR Imagery

This paper presents a method developed for estimating wave height from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery without prior assumption of noise distribution. It is based on two-dimenslonal ocean wave spectra retrieved from fully calibrated SAR images. Wen‘s spectrum was used as first-guess wave spectrum in the retrieval process. Comparison of the estimated wave height obtained by this method from two ERS-1 SAR subimages dated 23 July 1994 with in-situ measurements showed that the method works well.     

基于合成孔径雷达交叉极化通道数据的海上目标探测

Azimuth ambiguities(ghost targets) discrimination is of great interest with the development of a synthetic aperture radar(SAR). And the azimuth ambiguities are often mistaken as actual targets and cause false alarms. For actual targets, HV channel signals acquired by a fully polarimetric SAR are approximately equal to a VH channel in magnitude and phase, i.e., the reciprocity theorem applies, but shifted in phase about ± for the first-order azimuth ambiguities. Exploiting this physical behavior, the real part of the product of the two cross-polarized channels, i.e.(S S)HV VH, hereafter called A12 r, is employed as a new parameter for a target detection at sea. Compared with other parameters, the contrast of A12 r image between a target and the surrounding sea surface will be obviously increased when A12 r image is processed by mean filtering algorithm. Here, in order to detect target with constant false-alarm rates(CFARs), an analytical expression for the probability density function(pdf) of A12 r is derived based on the complex Wishart-distribution. Because a value of A12 r is greater/less than 0 for real target/its azimuth ambiguities, the first-order azimuth ambiguities can be completely removed by this A12r-based CFAR technology. Experiments accomplished over C-band RADARSAT-2 fully polarimetric imageries confirm the validity.     

基于小波变换和HIS变换的海冰SAR与光学遥感影像融合方法研究

Sea ice as a disaster has recently attracted a great deal of attention in China. Its monitoring has become a routine task for the maritime sector. Remote sensing, which depends mainly on SAR and optical sensors, has become the primary means for sea-ice research. Optical images contain abundant sea-ice multi-spectral information, whereas SAR images contain rich sea-ice texture information. If the characteristic advantages of SAR and optical images could be combined for sea-ice study, the ability of sea-ice monitoring would be improved. In this study, in accordance with the characteristics of sea-ice SAR and optical images, the transformation and fusion methods for these images were chosen. Also, a fusion method of optical and SAR images was proposed in order to improve sea-ice identification. Texture information can play an important role in sea-ice classification. Haar wavelet transformation was found to be suitable for the sea-ice SAR images, and the texture information of the sea-ice SAR image from Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar(ASAR) loaded on ENVISAT was documented. The results of our studies showed that, the optical images in the hue-intensity-saturation(HIS) space could reflect the spectral characteristics of the sea-ice types more efficiently than in the red-green-blue(RGB) space, and the optical image from the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite(CBERS-02B) was transferred from the RGB space to the HIS space. The principal component analysis(PCA) method could potentially contain the maximum information of the sea-ice images by fusing the HIS and texture images. The fusion image was obtained by a PCA method, which included the advantages of both the sea-ice SAR image and the optical image. To validate the fusion method, three methods were used to evaluate the fused image, i.e., objective, subjective, and comprehensive evaluations. It was concluded that the fusion method proposed could improve the ability of image interpretation and sea-ice identification.