Identifying tropical dry forests extent and succession via the use of machine learning techniques

Information on ecosystem services as a function of the successional stage for secondary tropical dry forests (TDFs) is scarce and limited. Secondary TDFs succession is defined as regrowth following a complete forest clearance for cattle growth or agriculture activities. In the context of large conservation initiatives, the identification of the extent, structure and composition of secondary TDFs can serve as key elements to estimate the effectiveness of such activities. As such, in this study we evaluate the use of a Hyperspectral MAPper (HyMap) dataset and a waveform LIDAR dataset for characterization of different levels of intra-secondary forests stages at the Santa Rosa National Park (SRNP) Environmental Monitoring Super Site located in Costa Rica. Specifically, a multi-task learning based machine learning classifier (MLC-MTL) is employed on the first shortwave infrared (SWIR1) of HyMap in order to identify the variability of aboveground biomass of secondary TDFs along a successional gradient. Our paper recognizes that the process of ecological succession is not deterministic but a combination of transitional forests types along a stochastic path that depends on ecological, edaphic, land use, and micro-meteorological conditions, and our results provide a new way to obtain the spatial distribution of three main types of TDFs successional stages.     

基于地物光谱可分性的CHRIS 高光谱影像波段选择及其分类应用

本文以黄河口湿地为研究区,应用覆盖该区域的CHRIS高光谱遥感影像,提出了一种基于地物光谱可分性的滨海湿地高光谱影像波段选择方法。该方法利用研究区的7种典型地物的110余条现场实测地物光谱曲线,通过分析比对地物两两之间的光谱可分度,确定地物类型之间的光谱可分区间,基于此选取CHRIS高光谱影像的地物分类特征波段,应用三种经典的监督分类方法(支持向量机法SVM、人工神经网络法ANN和光谱角制图法SAM)开展利用全波段的和利用本文方法选择特征波段的分类对比实验。结果表明:(1)基于光谱可分性特征波段的方法较全波段分类精度有所提高,其中ANN分类精度最高,为82.52%,较全波段分类精度提高了约为5.1%;(2)芦苇、水体、黄河水和裸滩4种地物的识别能力高,生产者精度都在80%以上;(3)碱蓬的用户精度提升最为明显,约在7%。     

高光谱技术在汝箕沟煤田烧变岩和Fe3+丰度信息提取中的方法研究

介绍了宁夏汝箕沟煤田煤系地层和烧变岩的反射光谱特征.通过采样分析烧变岩的铁含量,借助多元回归分析,确定了烧变岩中Fe³⁺含量与某些波段反射率的定量关系,提出了利用高光谱遥感图像提取Fe³⁺的方法.文中以汝箕沟煤田大岭湾火区、阴坡火区为试点,证明了该方法是有效的.该成果再次证明了高光谱遥感技术在矿产资源调查和定量分析中的有效性.     

Estimating canopy water content using hyperspectral remote sensing data

Hyperspectral remote sensing has demonstrated great potential for accurate retrieval of canopy water content (CWC). This CWC is defined by the product of the leaf equivalent water thickness (EWT) and the leaf area index (LAI). In this paper, in particular the spectral information provided by the canopy water absorption feature at 970 nm for estimating and predicting CWC was studied using a modelling approach and in situ spectroradiometric measurements. The relationship of the first derivative at the right slope of the 970 nm water absorption feature with CWC was investigated with the PROSAIL radiative transfer model and tested for field spectroradiometer measurements on two test sites. The first site was a heterogeneous floodplain with natural vegetation like grasses and various shrubs. The second site was an extensively grazed fen meadow.     

高光谱遥感在煤矿区的应用探讨

高光谱遥感在煤矿区具有广泛的应用潜力,在总结高光谱遥感技术发展及其应用现状的基础上,结合煤矿区资源环境特点,对数据获取、先验知识与光谱模型研建、定量模型建立、信息处理方法、精度评价等问题进行了分析,为应用高光谱遥感在煤矿区资源集约利用、生态环境保护、区域持续发展等方面的系统应用提供了技术和方法支持。     

Individual tree crown approach for predicting site index in boreal forests using airborne laser scanning and hyperspectral data

Site productivity is essential information for sustainable forest management and site index (SI) is the most common quantitative measure of it. The SI is usually determined for individual tree species based on tree height and the age of the 100 largest trees per hectare according to stem diameter. The present study aimed to demonstrate and validate a methodology for the determination of SI using remotely sensed data, in particular fused airborne laser scanning (ALS) and airborne hyperspectral data in a forest site in Norway. The applied approach was based on individual tree crown (ITC) delineation: tree species, tree height, diameter at breast height (DBH), and age were modelled and predicted at ITC level using 10-fold cross validation. Four dominant ITCs per 400 m² plot were selected as input to predict SI at plot level for Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). We applied an experimental setup with different subsets of dominant ITCs with different combinations of attributes (predicted or field-derived) for SI predictions. The results revealed that the selection of the dominant ITCs based on the largest DBH independent of tree species, predicted the SI with similar accuracy as ITCs matched with field-derived dominant trees (RMSE: 27.6% vs 23.3%). The SI accuracies were at the same level when dominant species were determined from the remotely sensed or field data (RMSE: 27.6% vs 27.8%). However, when the predicted tree age was used the SI accuracy decreased compared to field-derived age (RMSE: 27.6% vs 7.6%). In general, SI was overpredicted for both tree species in the mature forest, while there was an underprediction in the young forest. In conclusion, the proposed approach for SI determination based on ITC delineation and a combination of ALS and hyperspectral data is an efficient and stable procedure, which has the potential to predict SI in forest areas at various spatial scales and additionally to improve existing SI maps in Norway.     

Unsupervised ore/waste classification on open-cut mine faces using close-range hyperspectral data

The remote mapping of minerals and discrimination of ore and waste on surfaces are important tasks for geological applications such as those in mining. Such tasks have become possible using ground-based, close-range hyperspectral sensors which can remotely measure the reflectance properties of the environment with high spatial and spectral resolution. However, autonomous mapping of mineral spectra measured on an open-cut mine face remains a challenging problem due to the subtleness of differences in spectral absorption features between mineral and rock classes as well as variability in the illumination of the scene. An additional layer of difficulty arises when there is no annotated data available to train a supervised learning algorithm. A pipeline for unsupervised mapping of spectra on a mine face is proposed which draws from several recent advances in the hyperspectral machine learning literature. The proposed pipeline brings together unsupervised and self-supervised algorithms in a unified system to map minerals on a mine face without the need for human-annotated training data. The pipeline is evaluated with a hyperspectral image dataset of an open-cut mine face comprising mineral ore martite and non-mineralised shale. The combined system is shown to produce a superior map to its constituent algorithms, and the consistency of its mapping capability is demonstrated using data acquired at two different times of day.     

高光谱遥感图像的监督分类

图像分类是高光谱遥感图像分析与应用的重要手段。总结了目前用于高光谱图像监督分类的主要方法,包括最小距离法、最大似然法、神经元网络法和支持向量机法,分析了上述方法的特点,并探讨了高光谱遥感图像分类方法的发展趋势。     

超谱遥感图像快速聚类无损压缩算法

K-means聚类要求每个像素要和所有聚类中心求欧氏距离，当聚类数很多时，这是一个相当耗时的工作。改进的K—meam聚类算法根据历史聚类结果进行初始类分割，即节约初始聚类时间，又能使历史聚类过程中形成的类间稳定关系得以保持；类内像素只和相邻的聚类中心计算距离进行聚类，随着算法的迭代进行，大量类的状态基本固定，使得聚类速度不断加快。基于改进K-means聚类的无损压缩算法具有充分利用历史聚类成果和收敛速度快的特点，通过提高类内像素冗余度，最大限度消除谱间冗余和空间冗余。采用多次聚类压缩的结果预测最佳聚类数的方法，可实现最小熵无损压缩。通过和DPCM算法概率模型的熵值比较及实验数据的分析，验证了基于聚类无损压缩效率比不聚类无损压缩效果更优。     

Indicator kriging applied to absorption band analysis in hyperspectral imagery: A case study from the Rodalquilar epithermal gold mining area,SE Spain

A new approach to the analysis of hyperspectral data for the purpose of surface compositional mapping is presented in this paper. We use an interpolated value of the absorption band position and the absorption band depth for the diagnostic of mineral absorption features. Using thresholds for this depth and position, the data is transformed to indicator [0,1] values. By kriging these values, we obtain the probability of exceeding certain absorption depth and the probability of a pixel exhibiting absorption features within a specified wavelength region. Using Bayesian statistics, the indicator kriging derived probabilities are used to produce a hard classification result. By adapting the prior probabilities to the dominant mineralogy in the various alteration facies mapped, data stratification is achieved. The classification results are compared to results derived using the spectral angle mapper and maximum likelihood classification. In addition, the results are statistically compared to field spectral data classified into dominant mineralogy. The indicator approach and the spectral angle mapper produce favourable results relative to field data and in comparison to the maximum likelihood classifier. A data set from the Rodalquilar high-sulfidation epithermal gold system in SE Spain, consisting of HyMAP airborne imaging spectrometer data and ASD field spectra focusing on the key minerals alunite, kaolinite, illite and chlorite, is used to illustrate the methodology.