Semi-automatic mapping of anthropogenic impervious surfaces in an urban/suburban area using Landsat 8 satellite data

Impervious surfaces have a significant impact on urban runoff, groundwater, base flow, water quality, and climate. Increase in Anthropogenic Impervious Surfaces (AIS) for a region is a true representation of urban expansion. Monitoring of AIS in an urban region is helpful for better urban planning and resource management. Cost effective and efficient maps of AIS can be obtained for larger areas using remote sensing techniques. In the present study, extraction of AIS has been carried out using Double window Flexible Pace Search (DFPS) from a new index named as Normalized Difference Impervious Surface Index (NDAISI). NDAISI is developed by enhancing Biophysical Composition Index (BCI) in two stages using a new Modified Normalized Difference Soil Index (MNDSI). MNDSI has been developed from Band 7 and Band 8 (PAN) of Landsat 8 data. In comparison to existing impervious surface extraction methods, the new NDAISI approach is able to improve Spectral Discrimination Index (SDI) for bare soil and AIS significantly. Overall accuracy of mapping of AIS, using NDAISI approach has been found to be increased by nearly 23% when compared with existing impervious surface extraction methods.     

HJ-1B卫星遥感影像的积雪识别

针对国产卫星HJ-1B数据积雪像元识别的问题,该文分析了归一化差分积雪指数法和改进的归一化差分积雪指数法的优缺点,并根据积雪与其他地物的光谱特征变化幅度的差异性,提出了一个仅用HJ-CCD数据作为数据源的积雪识别方法。实验中,选取了两块不同特征的影像进行试验,以神经网络分类结合目视解译方法的提取结果作为标准进行精度评价。结果表明,该文提出的方法操作简单,能快速、准确地识别区域积雪覆盖面积。