Characterization of ASTER GDEM elevation data over vegetated area compared with lidar data

Current researches based on areal or spaceborne stereo images with very high resolutions (<1 m) have demonstrated that it is possible to derive vegetation height from stereo images. The second version of the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer Global Digital Elevation Model (ASTER GDEM) is the state-of-the-art global elevation data-set developed by stereo images. However, the resolution of ASTER stereo images (15 m) is much coarser than areal stereo images, and the ASTER GDEM is compiled products from stereo images acquired over 10 years. The forest disturbances as well as forest growth are inevitable in 10 years time span. In this study, the features of ASTER GDEM over vegetated areas under both flat and mountainous conditions were investigated by comparisons with lidar data. The factors possibly affecting the extraction of vegetation canopy height considered include (1) co-registration of DEMs; (2) spatial resolution of digital elevation models (DEMs); (3) spatial vegetation structure; and (4) terrain slope. The results show that the accurate coregistration between ASTER GDEM and national elevation dataset (NED) is necessary over mountainous areas. The correlation between ASTER GDEM minus NED and vegetation canopy height is improved from 0.328 to 0.43 by degrading resolutions from 1 arc-second to 5 arc-second and further improved to 0.6 if only homogenous vegetated areas were considered.     

将卫星三线阵CCD影像变换为正直影像进行立体测绘

可以展望利用卫星三线阵CCD影像自动采集的DEM、按共线方程将三线阵CCD影像变换为正直摄影像对(Normal case photography)提供用户立体测绘。文中着重讨论了正直摄影像中不在DEM表面上的目标点的位置误差,以及改进的立体测绘数学模型。利用卫星获取的前、后视CCD影像,并在其上添加由计算机生成的高层目标(约300m)的图像,验证了生成的正直影像对立体测绘的可行性,试验的高层目标点的坐标量测中误差为实验影像的0.5像元之内。