一种高分辨率遥感影像处理方法及其在电力工程中的应用

随着地球空间信息科学技术的飞速发展,高分辨率卫星遥感技术逐渐成为主流的对地观测手段之一。其生产的高分辨率遥感影像具有数据获取迅速、成本低、不受地域限制等诸多优点,广泛应用于国土、石油、电力、林业等行业部门。但由于其出现年代较新、数据量庞大、分辨率高,高分辨率遥感影像的数据处理与应用尚无完整的理论和方案指导,导致其在电力等行业的应用长期处于探索阶段。本文针对高分辨率遥感影像的关键处理难点,结合电力工程实际需求,提出了一整套数据处理及应用方案,为高分辨率遥感影像数据处理及其电力工程应用提供了技术支持和实践经验。     

遥感影像拼接缝消除算法改进研究

在遥感影像拼接过程中,需要一种技术能够使拼接缝处的灰度（或颜色）有一个光滑过渡,不产生突变效应。本文提出了基于余弦曲线的加权平均算法,使得接缝线处的过渡更为平滑,实现了影像的无缝拼接。     

A comparative data-fusion analysis of multi-sensor satellite images

Remote-sensing data play an important role in extracting information with the help of various sensors having different spectral, spatial and temporal resolutions. Therefore, data fusion, which merges images of different spatial and spectral resolutions, plays an important role in information extraction. This research investigates quality-assessment methods of multisensor (synthetic aperture radar [SAR] and optical) data fusion. In the analysis, three SAR data-sets from different sensors (RADARSAT-1, ALOS-PALSAR and ENVISAT-ASAR) and optical data from SPOT-2 were used. Although the PALSAR and the RADARSAT-1 images have the same resolutions and polarisations, images are gathered in different frequencies (L and C bands, respectively). The ASAR sensor also has C-band radar, but with lower (25 m) resolution. Since the frequency is a key factor for penetration depth, it is thought that the use of different SAR data might give interesting results as an output. This study describes a comparative study of multisensor fusion methods, namely the intensity-hue-saturation, Ehlers, and Brovey techniques, by using different statistical analysis techniques, namely the bias of mean, correlation coefficient, standard deviation difference and universal image quality index methods. The results reveal that Ehlers' method is superior to the others in terms of spectral and statistical fidelity.     

Crime in Urban Post-Disaster Environments: A Methodological Framework from New Orleans

This paper considers the interrelationship between residential occupancy status, blight, and crime. An analytical frame is provided for a fine-scale analysis that is sufficiently flexible to capture both spatial and temporal dynamism in field-collected data. Unlike other works linking crime to evidence of disorder within neighborhoods, this paper considers this relationship in terms of neighborhoods affected by an external event (natural disaster), which results in more dynamic spatial and temporal patterns as the neighborhood is in a state of flux. As a result, new means of data collection and analysis are required, as any fine-scale relationship is longitudinal as well as cross sectional. The focus here is on the interrelationship of post-disaster residential occupancy, building conditions, and crime incidence for the Holy Cross neighborhood of New Orleans as it recovers from Hurricane Katrina. Results suggest that crime is inversely related to the amount of activity on a recovering street.     

Cartographically Wordy but not Necessarily Worthy

Abstract

A novel method called multidirectional visibility index (MVI) has been developed and verified. The MVI improves standard cartographic analytical shading with a number of enhancements to topographic detail and prominent structures, i.e. the portrayal of flat areas in lighter tones, the accentuation of morphologic edges, and the multiscale visualisation of morphologic terrain features. The procedure requires a digital elevation model (DEM) and involves the following steps: visibility mask computation; the respective multidirectional altering of the azimuth and elevation angle; the generation of continuous grid MVIs that indicate upper/lower views, quasi-slope, and relative relief; and an appropriate visualisation of the relevant MVI as a standalone technique or in combination with standard hill-shaded relief. The modelling parameters are robust and therefore highly adaptive to different landforms.     

A modified stochastic neighbor embedding for multi-feature dimension reduction of remote sensing images

In automated remote sensing based image analysis, it is important to consider the multiple features of a certain pixel, such as the spectral signature, morphological property, and shape feature, in both the spatial and spectral domains, to improve the classification accuracy. Therefore, it is essential to consider the complementary properties of the different features and combine them in order to obtain an accurate classification rate. In this paper, we introduce a modified stochastic neighbor embedding (MSNE) algorithm for multiple features dimension reduction (DR) under a probability preserving projection framework. For each feature, a probability distribution is constructed based on t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE), and we then alternately solve t-SNE and learn the optimal combination coefficients for different features in the proposed multiple features DR optimization. Compared with conventional remote sensing image DR strategies, the suggested algorithm utilizes both the spatial and spectral features of a pixel to achieve a physically meaningful low-dimensional feature representation for the subsequent classification, by automatically learning a combination coefficient for each feature. The classification results using hyperspectral remote sensing images (HSI) show that MSNE can effectively improve RS image classification performance.     

Clustering based on eigenspace transformation – CBEST for efficient classification

Large remote sensing datasets, that either cover large areas or have high spatial resolution, are often a burden of information mining for scientific studies. Here, we present an approach that conducts clustering after gray-level vector reduction. In this manner, the speed of clustering can be considerably improved. The approach features applying eigenspace transformation to the dataset followed by compressing the data in the eigenspace and storing them in coded matrices and vectors. The clustering process takes the advantage of the reduced size of the compressed data and thus reduces computational complexity. We name this approach Clustering Based on Eigen-space Transformation (CBEST). In our experiment with a subscene of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery, CBEST was found to be able to improve speed considerably over conventional K-means as the volume of data to be clustered increases. We assessed information loss and several other factors. In addition, we evaluated the effectiveness of CBEST in mapping land cover/use with the same image that was acquired over Guangzhou City, South China and an AVIRIS hyperspectral image over Cappocanoe County, Indiana. Using reference data we assessed the accuracies for both CBEST and conventional K-means and we found that the CBEST was not negatively affected by information loss during compression in practice. We discussed potential applications of the fast clustering algorithm in dealing with large datasets in remote sensing studies.     

基于高分辨率SAR图像成像机理的震害信息分析

与中低分辨率SAR图像相比,高分辨率SAR图像受目标复杂性和成像噪声等因素的干扰更为严重,致使应用高分辨率SAR图像检测震害目标变得更加困难.传统的适用于中低分辨率SAR图像的震害信息提取方法对于高分辨率SAR图像有一定的局限性.为了从高分辨率SAR图像中更加准确地提取震害信息,从SAR图像成像机理和目标的后向散射特征出发,对建筑物和道路、桥梁的震害特征进行了细致分析,为寻求合适的目标检测和提取方法提供了思路.     

基于暗原色的航空遥感影像薄雾去除与改进

本文对航空遥感影像的薄雾进行了研究,根据雾图像成像模型和基于暗原色先验知识,结合图像对比度的自适应调整,提出了一种对航空遥感影像薄雾去除的改进算法。采用数字航空相机DSS439获取的不同地物特征类型的应急遥感影像进行去雾实验,并对实验结果进行分析、比较与评价,验证了该方法的正确性和有效性。     

基于改进SIFT算法的视频图像序列自动拼接

本文提出了一种自适应帧采样和限定特征提取区域的拼接方法,根据帧间重叠率和帧间隔建立线性模型,并把各帧图像对准到其前后的关键帧上。在特征点提取方面,提出了一种改进的SIFT算法进行特征点提取,并采用随机采用一致性(RANSAC)方法来更新匹配点,在图像融合中采用线性加权渐入渐出的自然融合算法。实验结果表明:该方法对一般场景能稳定的抽取到关键帧,并进行拼接,取得了较好的拼接效果。