scholarly journals A Novel Relational-Based Transductive Transfer Learning Method for PolSAR Images via Time-Series Clustering

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingli Qin ◽  
Jie Yang ◽  
Pingxiang Li ◽  
Weidong Sun ◽  
Wei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Information Extraction ◽  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Remote Sensing Image ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Target Domain ◽  
Time Series Clustering ◽  
Time Series Images

The combination of transfer learning and remote sensing image processing technology can effectively improve the automation level of image information extraction from a remote sensing time series. However, in the processing of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) time-series images, the existing transfer learning methods often cannot make full use of the time-series information of the images, relying too much on the labeled samples in the target domain. Furthermore, the speckle noise inherent in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery aggravates the difficulty of the manual selection of labeled samples, so these methods have difficulty in meeting the processing requirements of large data volumes and high efficiency. In lieu of these problems and the spatio-temporal relational knowledge of objects in time-series images, this paper introduces the theory of time-series clustering and proposes a new three-phase time-series clustering algorithm. Due to the full use of the inherent characteristics of the PolSAR images, this algorithm can accurately transfer the labels of the source domain samples to those samples that have not changed in the whole time series without relying on the target domain labeled samples, so as to realize transductive sample label transfer for PolSAR time-series images. Experiments were carried out using three different sets of PolSAR time-series images and the proposed method was compared with two of the existing methods. The experimental results showed that the transfer precision of the proposed method reaches a high level with different data and different objects and it performs significantly better than the existing methods. With strong reliability and practicability, the proposed method can provide a new solution for the rapid information extraction of remote sensing image time series.

scholarly journals High-Resolution Rice Mapping Based on SNIC Segmentation and Multi-Source Remote Sensing Images

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1148
Author(s):  
Lingbo Yang ◽  
Limin Wang ◽  
Ghali Abdullahi Abubakar ◽  
Jingfeng Huang
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Time Series ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Classification Accuracy ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Resolution Time ◽  
Medium Resolution ◽  
Crop Mapping ◽  
Sentinel 2

High-resolution crop mapping is of great significance in agricultural monitoring, precision agriculture, and providing critical information for crop yield or disaster monitoring. Meanwhile, medium resolution time-series optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images can provide useful phenological information. Combining high-resolution satellite data and medium resolution time-series images provides a great opportunity for fine crop mapping. Simple Non-Iterative Clustering (SNIC) is a state-of-the-art image segmentation algorithm that shows the advantages of efficiency and high accuracy. However, the application of SNIC in crop mapping based on the combination of high-resolution and medium-resolution images is unknown. Besides, there is still little research on the influence of the superpixel size (one of the key user-defined parameters of the SNIC method) on classification accuracy. In this study, we employed a 2 m high-resolution GF-1 pan-sharpened image and 10 m medium resolution time-series Sentinel-1 C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar Instrument (C-SAR) and Sentinel-2 Multispectral Instrument (MSI) images to carry out rice mapping based on the SNIC method. The results show that with the increase of the superpixel size, the classification accuracy increased at first and then decreased rapidly after reaching the summit when the superpixel size is 27. The classification accuracy of the combined use of optical and SAR data is higher than that using only Sentinel-2 MSI or Sentinel-1 C-SAR vertical transmitted and vertical received (VV) or vertical transmitted and horizontal received (VH) data, with overall accuracies of 0.8335, 0.8282, 0.7862, and 0.7886, respectively. Meanwhile, the results also indicate that classification based on superpixels obtained by SNIC significantly outperforms classification based on original pixels. The overall accuracy, producer accuracy, and user accuracy of SNIC superpixel-based classification increased by 9.14%, 17.16%, 27.35% and 1.36%, respectively, when compared with the pixel-based classification, based on the combination of optical and SAR data (using the random forest as the classifier). The results show that SNIC superpixel segmentation is a feasible method for high-resolution crop mapping based on multi-source remote sensing data. The automatic selection of the optimal superpixel size of SNIC will be focused on in future research.

scholarly journals The manifold embedded selective pseudo-labeling algorithm and transfer learning of small sample dataset

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 1122-1129
Author(s):  
Yaoli WANG ◽  
Xiaohui LIU ◽  
Bin LI ◽  
Qing CHANG
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Satellite Remote Sensing ◽  
Remote Sensing Image ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Video Image ◽  
Target Domain ◽  
Source Domain ◽  
Labeling Algorithm ◽  
Transfer Accuracy

Special scene classification and identification tasks are not easily fulfilled to obtain samples, which results in a shortage of samples. The focus of current researches lies in how to use source domain data (or auxiliary domain data) to build domain adaption transfer learning models and to improve the classification accuracy and performance of small sample machine learning in these special and difficult scenes. In this paper, a model of deep convolution and Grassmann manifold embedded selective pseudo-labeling algorithm (DC-GMESPL) is proposed to enable transfer learning classifications among multiple small sample datasets. Firstly, DC-GMESPL algorithm uses satellite remote sensing image sample data as the source domain to extract the smoke features simultaneously from both the source domain and the target domain based on the Resnet50 deep transfer network. This is done for such special scene of the target domain as the lack of local sample data for forest fire smoke video images. Secondly, DC-GMESPL algorithm makes the source domain feature distribution aligned with the target domain feature distribution. The distance between the source domain and the target domain feature distribution is minimized by removing the correlation between the source domain features and re-correlation with the target domain. And then the target domain data is pseudo-labeled by selective pseudo-labeling algorithm in Grassmann manifold space. Finally, a trainable model is constructed to complete the transfer classification between small sample datasets. The model of this paper is evaluated by transfer learning between satellite remote sensing image and video image datasets. Experiments show that DC-GMESPL transfer accuracy is higher than DC-CMEDA, Easy TL, CMMS and SPL respectively. Compared with our former DC-CMEDA, the transfer accuracy of our new DC-GMESPL algorithm has been further improved. The transfer accuracy of DC-GMESPL from satellite remote sensing image to video image has been improved by 0.50%, the transfer accuracy from video image to satellite remote sensing image has been improved by 8.50% and then, the performance has been greatly improved.

scholarly journals Mapping Land Cover Based on Time Series Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data in Klaten, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vidya Nahdhiyatul Fikriyah
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Unsupervised Classification ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Optical Remote Sensing ◽  
Tropical Regions ◽  
Aperture Radar

<p><em>Information </em><em>on </em><em>the existing land cover is important for land management and planning because it can represent the intensity, location, and pattern of human activities. However, mapping land cover in tropical regions is not easy when using optical remote sensing due to the scarcity of cloud-free images. Therefore, the objective of this study is to map the land cover in Klaten Regency using a time-series Sentinel-1 data. Sentinel-1 data is one of remote sensing image</em><em>s</em><em> with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system which is well known by its capabilit</em><em>y</em><em> of cloud penetration and all-weather observation. A time-series Sentinel-1 data of both polarisations, VV and VH were automatically classified using an unsupervised classification technique, ISODATA. The results show that the land cover classifications obtained overall accuracies of 79</em><em>.</em><em>26% and 73</em><em>.</em><em>79</em><em>% </em><em>for VV and VH respectively. It is also found that Klaten is still dominated by the vegetated land (agriculture and non-agricultural land).</em><em> T</em><em>hese results suggest the opportunity of mapping land cover using SAR multi temporal data. </em></p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong><em> Keywords</em></strong><em>: </em><em>Land cover; Synthetic Aperture Radar; Time series; Sentinel-1; Klaten</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals Earth Environmental Monitoring Using Multi-Temporal Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Critical Review of Selected Applications

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 604
Author(s):  
Donato Amitrano ◽  
Gerardo Di Martino ◽  
Raffaella Guida ◽  
Pasquale Iervolino ◽  
Antonio Iodice ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Microwave Remote Sensing ◽  
Radar Data ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Arid Environments ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar Data ◽  
Multi Temporal ◽  
Aperture Radar

Microwave remote sensing has widely demonstrated its potential in the continuous monitoring of our rapidly changing planet. This review provides an overview of state-of-the-art methodologies for multi-temporal synthetic aperture radar change detection and its applications to biosphere and hydrosphere monitoring, with special focus on topics like forestry, water resources management in semi-arid environments and floods. The analyzed literature is categorized on the base of the approach adopted and the data exploited and discussed in light of the downstream remote sensing market. The purpose is to highlight the main issues and limitations preventing the diffusion of synthetic aperture radar data in both industrial and multidisciplinary research contexts and the possible solutions for boosting their usage among end-users.

scholarly journals Removal of systematic seasonal atmospheric signal from interferometric synthetic aperture radar ground deformation time series

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (17) ◽  
pp. 6123-6130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Samsonov ◽  
Alexander P. Trishchenko ◽  
Kristy Tiampo ◽  
Pablo J. González ◽  
Yu Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Ground Deformation ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Aperture Radar

Deformation information extraction method based on differential synthetic aperture radar interferometry

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 5311-5318
Author(s):  
Zhengquan Hu ◽  
Yu Liu ◽  
Xiaowei Niu ◽  
Guoping Lei
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Adaptive Filtering ◽  
Extraction Method ◽  
Deformation Monitoring ◽  
Radar Interferometry ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Filtering Method ◽  
Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry ◽  
Aperture Radar

As aerospace technology, computer technology, network communication technology and information technology become more and more perfect, a variety of sensors for measurement and remote sensing are constantly emerging, and the ability to acquire remote sensing data is also continuously enhanced. Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) technology greatly expands the function and application field of imaging radar. Differential InSAR (DInSAR) developed based on InSAR technology has the advantages of high precision and all-weather compared with traditional measurement methods. However, DInSAR-based deformation monitoring is susceptible to spatiotemporal coherence, orbital errors, atmospheric delays, and elevation errors. Since phase noise is the main error of InSAR, to determine the appropriate filtering parameters, an iterative adaptive filtering method for interferogram is proposed. For the limitation of conventional DInSAR, to improve the accuracy of deformation monitoring as much as possible, this paper proposes a deformation modeling based on ridge estimation and regularization as a constraint condition, and introduces a variance component estimation to optimize the deformation results. The simulation experiment of the iterative adaptive filtering method and the deformation modeling proposed in this paper shows that the deformation information extraction method based on differential synthetic aperture radar has high precision and feasibility.

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