scholarly journals Improvement of Clay and Sand Quantification Based on a Novel Approach with a Focus on Multispectral Satellite Images

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 1555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caio Fongaro ◽  
José Demattê ◽  
Rodnei Rizzo ◽  
José Lucas Safanelli ◽  
Wanderson Mendes ◽  
...  

Soil mapping demands large-scale surveys that are costly and time consuming. It is necessary to identify strategies with reduced costs to obtain detailed information for soil mapping. We aimed to compare multispectral satellite image and relief parameters for the quantification and mapping of clay and sand contents. The Temporal Synthetic Spectral (TESS) reflectance and Synthetic Soil Image (SYSI) approaches were used to identify and characterize texture spectral signatures at the image level. Soil samples were collected (0–20 cm depth, 919 points) from an area of 14,614 km2 in Brazil for reference and model calibration. We compared different prediction approaches: (a) TESS and SYSI; (b) Relief-Derived Covariates (RDC); and (c) SYSI plus RDC. The TESS method produced highly similar behavior to the laboratory convolved data. The sandy textural class showed a greater increase in average spectral reflectance from Band 1 to 7 compared with the clayey class. The prediction using SYSI produced a better result for clay (R2 = 0.83; RMSE = 65.0 g kg−1) and sand (R2 = 0.86; RMSE = 79.9 g kg−1). Multispectral satellite images were more stable for the identification of soil properties than relief parameters.

Author(s):  
Y. S. Sun ◽  
L. Zhang ◽  
B. Xu ◽  
Y. Zhang

The accurate positioning of optical satellite image without control is the precondition for remote sensing application and small/medium scale mapping in large abroad areas or with large-scale images. In this paper, aiming at the geometric features of optical satellite image, based on a widely used optimization method of constraint problem which is called Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) and RFM least-squares block adjustment, we propose a GCP independent block adjustment method for the large-scale domestic high resolution optical satellite image – GISIBA (GCP-Independent Satellite Imagery Block Adjustment), which is easy to parallelize and highly efficient. In this method, the virtual "average" control points are built to solve the rank defect problem and qualitative and quantitative analysis in block adjustment without control. The test results prove that the horizontal and vertical accuracy of multi-covered and multi-temporal satellite images are better than 10 m and 6 m. Meanwhile the mosaic problem of the adjacent areas in large area DOM production can be solved if the public geographic information data is introduced as horizontal and vertical constraints in the block adjustment process. Finally, through the experiments by using GF-1 and ZY-3 satellite images over several typical test areas, the reliability, accuracy and performance of our developed procedure will be presented and studied in this paper.


Author(s):  
H. Amini Amirkolaee ◽  
H. Arefi

Abstract. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for 3D change detection in urban areas using only a single satellite images. To this purpose, a dense convolutional neural network (DCNN) is utilized in order to estimate a digital surface model (DSM) from a single image. In this regard, a densely connected convolutional network is employed for feature extraction and an upsampling method based on dilated convolution is employed for estimating the height values. The proposed DCNN is trained using satellite and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data which are provided in 2012 from Isfahan, Iran. Subsequently, the trained network is utilized in order to estimate DSM of a single satellite image that is provided in 2006. Finally, the changed areas are detected by subtracting the estimated DSMs. Evaluating the accuracy of the detected changed areas indicates 66.59, 72.90 and 67.90 for correctness, completeness, and kappa, respectively.


Author(s):  
S. Bullinger ◽  
C. Bodensteiner ◽  
M. Arens

Abstract. The reconstruction of accurate three-dimensional environment models is one of the most fundamental goals in the field of photogrammetry. Since satellite images provide suitable properties for obtaining large-scale environment reconstructions, there exist a variety of Stereo Matching based methods to reconstruct point clouds for satellite image pairs. Recently, a Structure from Motion (SfM) based approach has been proposed, which allows to reconstruct point clouds from multiple satellite images. In this work, we propose an extension of this SfM based pipeline that allows us to reconstruct not only point clouds but watertight meshes including texture information. We provide a detailed description of several steps that are mandatory to exploit state-of-the-art mesh reconstruction algorithms in the context of satellite imagery. This includes a decomposition of finite projective camera calibration matrices, a skew correction of corresponding depth maps and input images as well as the recovery of real-world depth maps from reparameterized depth values. The paper presents an extensive quantitative evaluation on multi-date satellite images demonstrating that the proposed pipeline combined with current meshing algorithms outperforms state-of-the-art point cloud reconstruction algorithms in terms of completeness and median error. We make the source code of our pipeline publicly available.


Sci ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Dimitris Kaimaris ◽  
Petros Patias ◽  
Giorgos Mallinis ◽  
Charalampos Georgiadis

Αbstract: To date, countless satellite image fusions have been made, mainly with panchromatic spatial resolution to a multispectral image ratio of 1/4, fewer fusions with lower ratios, and relatively recently fusions with much higher spatial resolution ratios have been published. Apart from this, there is a small number of publications studying the fusion of aerial photographs with satellite images, with the year of image acquisition varying and the dates of acquisition not mentioned. In addition, in these publications, either no quantitative controls are performed on the composite images produced, or the aerial photographs are recent and colorful and only the RGB bands of the satellite images are used for data fusion purposes. The objective of this paper is the study of the addition of multispectral information from satellite images to black and white aerial photographs of the 80s decade (1980–1990) with small difference (just a few days) in their image acquisition date, the same year and season. Quantitative tests are performed in two case studies and the results are encouraging, as the accuracy of the classification of the features and objects of the Earth’s surface is improved and the automatic digital extraction of their form and shape from the archived aerial photographs is now allowed. This opens up a new field of use for the black and white aerial photographs and archived multispectral satellite images of the same period in a variety of applications, such as the temporal changes of cities, forests and archaeological sites.


Author(s):  
Y. Han ◽  
S. Wang ◽  
D. Gong ◽  
Y. Wang ◽  
Y. Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract. Data from the optical satellite imaging sensors running 24/7, is collecting in embarrassing abundance nowadays. Besides more suitable for large-scale mapping, multi-view high-resolution satellite images (HRSI) are cheaper when comparing to Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data and aerial remotely sensed images, which are more accessible sources for digital surface modelling and updating. Digital Surface Model (DSM) generation is one of the most critical steps for mapping, 3D modelling, and semantic interpretation. Computing DSM from this dataset is relatively new, and several solutions exist in the market, both commercial and open-source solutions, the performances of these solutions have not yet been comprehensively analyzed. Although some works and challenges have focused on the DSM generation pipeline and the geometric accuracy of the generated DSM, the evaluations, however, do not consider the latest solutions as the fast development in this domain. In this work, we discussed the pipeline of the considered both commercial and opensource solutions, assessed the accuracy of the multi-view satellite image-based DSMs generation methods with LiDAR-derived DSM as the ground truth. Three solutions, including Satellite Stereo Pipeline (S2P), PCI Geomatica, and Agisoft Metashape, are evaluated on a WorldView-3 multi-view satellite dataset both quantitatively and qualitatively with the LiDAR ground truth. Our comparison and findings are presented in the experimental section.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2181
Author(s):  
Svetlana Illarionova  ◽  
Sergey Nesteruk  ◽  
Dmitrii Shadrin ◽  
Vladimir Ignatiev  ◽  
Maria Pukalchik  ◽  
...  

Usage of multispectral satellite imaging data opens vast possibilities for monitoring and quantitatively assessing properties or objects of interest on a global scale. Machine learning and computer vision (CV) approaches show themselves as promising tools for automatizing satellite image analysis. However, there are limitations in using CV for satellite data. Mainly, the crucial one is the amount of data available for model training. This paper presents a novel image augmentation approach called MixChannel that helps to address this limitation and improve the accuracy of solving segmentation and classification tasks with multispectral satellite images. The core idea is to utilize the fact that there is usually more than one image for each location in remote sensing tasks, and this extra data can be mixed to achieve the more robust performance of the trained models. The proposed approach substitutes some channels of the original training image with channels from other images of the exact location to mix auxiliary data. This augmentation technique preserves the spatial features of the original image and adds natural color variability with some probability. We also show an efficient algorithm to tune channel substitution probabilities. We report that the MixChannel image augmentation method provides a noticeable increase in performance of all the considered models in the studied forest types classification problem.


Author(s):  
Jiaxin Wan ◽  
Yi Ma

AbstractNearshore bathymetry is a basic parameter of the ocean, which is crucial to the research and management of coastal zones. Previous studies have demonstrated that remote sensing techniques can be employed in estimating bathymetric information. In this paper, we propose a deep belief network with data perturbation (DBN-DP) algorithm for shallow water depth inversion from high resolution multispectral data, and applying it in Xinji Island of Malacca Strait and Yongxing Island in China. Results show that the DBN-DP method can produce more accurate water depth estimations than other traditional methods particularly for deeper water, which reaches 1.2 m of mean absolute error (MAE) and 12.8% of mean relative error (MRE) in Xinji Island. Most of the estimated bathymetry meet the category of zone of confidence C level defined by the International Hydrographic Organization. These findings are encouraging for employing deep learning in bathymetry, which may become a novel approach for bathymetric inversion in the future.


Author(s):  
V E Dementyev ◽  
D S Kondratyev

One of the important tasks facing the regional authorities is to monitor the condition of roads and power lines. In the Ulyanovsk region more than 8 thousand km of power lines and more than 9 thousand km of roads (including rural). A significant part of these facilities is located outside the settlements in places with medium and low availability. In many such places there is a problem of uncontrolled forest overgrowth. This work is devoted to solving the problem of automated satellite monitoring of such areas. For this purpose, it is proposed to use a modified convolutional neural network that processes time sequences of multispectral satellite images and allows to allocate territories occupied by forest and undergrowth with high accuracy. This approach allows us to assess the dynamics of overgrowth of the territory and perform the appropriate forecast with sufficient accuracy for practice.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1.8) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
K. Radhika ◽  
S. Varadarajan

Remote sensing images are an important source of information regarding the Earth surface. For many applications like geology, urban planning, forest and land cover/land use, the underlying information from such images is needed. Extraction of this information is usually achieved through a classification process which is one of the most powerful tools in digital image processing. Good classifier is required to extract the information in satellite images. Latest methods used for classification of pixels in multispectral satellite images are supervised classifiers such as Support Vector Machines (SVM), k-Nearest Number (K-NN) and Maximum Likelihood (ML) classifier. SVM may be one-class SVM or multi-class SVM. K-NN is simple technique in high-dimensional feature space. In ML classifier, classification is based on the maximum likelihood of the pixel. The performance metrics for these classifiers are calculated and compared. Totally 200 points have been considered for validation purpose.


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