scholarly journals Estimation of debris cover and its temporal variation using optical satellite sensor data: a case study in Chenab basin, Himalaya

2009 ◽  
Vol 55 (191) ◽  
pp. 444-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Shukla ◽  
R.P. Gupta ◽  
M.K. Arora
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Supervised Classification ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Optical Remote Sensing ◽  
Glacier Area ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Debris Cover ◽  
Topographical Maps

AbstractDebris cover over glaciers greatly affects their rate of ablation and is a sensitive indicator of glacier health. This study focuses on estimation of debris cover over Samudratapu glacier, Chenab basin, Himalaya, using optical remote-sensing data. Remote-sensing image data of IRS-1C LISS-III (September 2001), IRS-P6 AWiFS (September 2004) and Terra ASTER (September 2004) along with Survey of India topographical maps (1963) were used in the study. Supervised classification of topographically corrected reflectance image data was systematically conducted to map six land-cover classes in the glacier terrain: snow, ice, mixed ice and debris, debris, valley rock, and water. An accuracy assessment of the classification was conducted using the ASTER visible/near-infrared data as the reference. The overall accuracies of the glacier-cover maps were found to range from 83.7% to 89.1%, whereas the individual class accuracy of debris-cover mapping was found to range from 82% to 95%. This shows that supervised classification of topographically corrected reflectance data is effective for the extraction of debris cover. In addition, a comparative study of glacier-cover maps generated from remote-sensing data (supervised classification) of September 2001 and September 2004 and Survey of India topographical maps (1963) has highlighted the trends of glacier depletion and recession. The glacier snout receded by about 756 m from 1963 to 2004, and the total glacier area was reduced by 13.7 km2 (from 110 km2 in 1963). Further, glacier retreat is found to be accompanied by a decrease in mixed ice and debris and a marked increase in debris-cover area. The area covered by valley rock is found to increase, confirming an overall decrease in the glacier area. The results from this study demonstrate the applicability of optical remote-sensing data in monitoring glacier terrain, and particularly mapping debris-cover area.

scholarly journals On the accuracy of glacier outlines derived from remote-sensing data

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (63) ◽  
pp. 171-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Paul ◽  
N.E. Barrand ◽  
S. Baumann ◽  
E. Berthier ◽  
T. Bolch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Reference Value ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Automated Classification ◽  
Automated Mapping ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Medium Resolution ◽  
Debris Cover ◽  
Manual Correction

AbstractDeriving glacier outlines from satellite data has become increasingly popular in the past decade. In particular when glacier outlines are used as a base for change assessment, it is important to know how accurate they are. Calculating the accuracy correctly is challenging, as appropriate reference data (e.g. from higher-resolution sensors) are seldom available. Moreover, after the required manual correction of the raw outlines (e.g. for debris cover), such a comparison would only reveal the accuracy of the analyst rather than of the algorithm applied. Here we compare outlines for clean and debris-covered glaciers, as derived from single and multiple digitizing by different or the same analysts on very high- (1 m) and medium-resolution (30 m) remote-sensing data, against each other and to glacier outlines derived from automated classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper data. Results show a high variability in the interpretation of debris-covered glacier parts, largely independent of the spatial resolution (area differences were up to 30%), and an overall good agreement for clean ice with sufficient contrast to the surrounding terrain (differences ∼5%). The differences of the automatically derived outlines from a reference value are as small as the standard deviation of the manual digitizations from several analysts. Based on these results, we conclude that automated mapping of clean ice is preferable to manual digitization and recommend using the latter method only for required corrections of incorrectly mapped glacier parts (e.g. debris cover, shadow).

scholarly journals Urban Classification Using Multi-temporal Sentinel-1 Data Based On Coherence Characteristics

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Le Minh Hang ◽  
Tran Anh Tuan
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Development Planning ◽  
Optical Remote Sensing ◽  
Satellite Mission ◽  
Sar Images ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Polarization Image

Classification urban features plays an important part in monitoring and development planning of the area. Optical remote sensing data is currently used in study land use/land cover. However, optical remote sensing data are affected by clouds and weather. Hence, it is difficult to update information. Sentinel-1 is the satellite mission which conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA). Sentinel-1 is composed of two satellites, Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B which carried C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument, 10m spatial resolution and provided free of charge. SAR images, which is an active microwave data, is not affected by weather, day and night. In this article, the authors present the experimental results of using coherence technique of two SAR images acquised at different times to classify urban features. The classification accuracy by using VV and VH polarization images were respectively 89% and 93%. VH polarization image data used in classification urban feature is better than VV polarization image.

scholarly journals COMPUTING COMPONENTS OF CLOUD WEB-SERVICES FOR REMOTE SENSING DATA PROCESSING

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
Aleksey A. Buchnev ◽  
Valery P. Pyatkin ◽  
Evgeny V. Rusin
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Data Processing ◽  
Supervised Classification ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
Interactive Communication ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Movement Tracking

The organization of computations in cloud Web services for satellite data processing is considered. Computing component of almost every service is a batch version of the corresponding technology of the PlanetaMonitoring software for processing remote sensing data. The exceptions are the technologies that require interactive communication with user, i.e., supervised classification of remote sensing data and movement tracking of natural environments by the coordinates of identifiable objects, each of which consists of two parts, i.e., an interactive Windows application running on the user's computer and the part hidden in the cloud.

scholarly journals Indices Extraction from Multitemporal Remote Sensing Data for Mapping Urban Built-Up

2021 ◽  
Vol 887 (1) ◽  
pp. 012004
Author(s):  
A. K. Hayati ◽  
Y.F. Hestrio ◽  
N. Cendiana ◽  
K. Kustiyo
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Supervised Classification ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Remote Sensing Technology ◽  
Sensing Technology ◽  
Multitemporal Remote Sensing ◽  
Multitemporal Data

Abstract Remote sensing data analysis in the cloudy area is still a challenging process. Fortunately, remote sensing technology is fast growing. As a result, multitemporal data could be used to overcome the problem of the cloudy area. Using multitemporal data is a common approach to address the cloud problem. However, most methods only use two data, one as the main data and the other as complementary of the cloudy area. In this paper, a method to harness multitemporal remote sensing data for automatically extracting some indices is proposed. In this method, the process of extracting the indices is done without having to mask the cloud. Those indices could be further used for many applications such as the classification of urban built-up. Landsat-8 data that is acquired during 2019 are stacked, therefore each pixel at the same position creates a list. From each list, indices are extracted. In this study, NDVI, NDBI, and NDWI are used to mapping built-up areas. Furthermore, extracted indices are divided into four categories by their value (maximum, quantile 75, median, and mean). Those indices are then combined into a simple formula to mapping built-up to see which produces better accuracy. The Pleiades as high-resolution remote sensing data is used to assist supervised classification for assessment. In this study, the combination of mean NDBI, maximum NDVI, and mean NDWI result highest Kappa coefficient of 0.771.

scholarly journals AN ENHANCED ALGORITHM FOR AUTOMATIC RADIOMETRIC HARMONIZATION OF HIGH-RESOLUTION OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGERY USING PSEUDOINVARIANT FEATURES AND LINEAR REGRESSION

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-1/W1 ◽  
pp. 115-120
Author(s):  
M. Langheinrich ◽  
P. Fischer ◽  
M. Probeck ◽  
G. Ramminger ◽  
T. Wagner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Multispectral Imaging ◽  
Satellite Image ◽  
Spectral Composition ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Optical Remote Sensing ◽  
Surface Reflection ◽  
Sensing Data

The growing number of available optical remote sensing data providing large spatial and temporal coverage enables the coherent and gapless observation of the earth’s surface on the scale of whole countries or continents. To produce datasets of that size, individual satellite scenes have to be stitched together forming so-called mosaics. Here the problem arises that the different images feature varying radiometric properties depending on the momentary acquisition conditions. The interpretation of optical remote sensing data is to a great extent based on the analysis of the spectral composition of an observed surface reflection. Therefore the normalization of all images included in a large image mosaic is necessary to ensure consistent results concerning the application of procedures to the whole dataset. In this work an algorithm is described which enables the automated spectral harmonization of satellite images to a reference scene. As the stable and satisfying functionality of the proposed algorithm was already put to operational use to process a high number of SPOT-4/-5, IRS LISS-III and Landsat-5 scenes in the frame of the European Environment Agency's Copernicus/GMES Initial Operations (GIO) High-Resolution Layer (HRL) mapping of the HRL Forest for 20 Western, Central and (South)Eastern European countries, it is further evaluated on its reliability concerning the application to newer Sentinel-2 multispectral imaging products. The results show that the algorithm is comparably efficient for the processing of satellite image data from sources other than the sensor configurations it was originally designed for.

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