D. Ratha, D. Mandal, Vineet Kumar, H. Mcnairn, A. Bhattacharya, A. Frery
{"title":"A Generalized Volume Scattering Model-Based Vegetation Index From Polarimetric SAR Data","authors":"D. Ratha, D. Mandal, Vineet Kumar, H. Mcnairn, A. Bhattacharya, A. Frery","doi":"10.1109/LGRS.2019.2907703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2907703","url":null,"abstract":"In this letter, we propose a novel vegetation index from polarimetric synthetic-aperture radar (PolSAR) data using the generalized volume scattering model. The geodesic distance between two Kennaugh matrices projected on a unit sphere proposed by Ratha et al. is used in this letter. This distance is utilized to compute a similarity measure between the observed Kennaugh matrix and generalized volume scattering models. A factor is estimated corresponding to the ratio of the minimum to the maximum geodesic distances between the observed Kennaugh matrix and the set of elementary targets: trihedral, cylinder, dihedral, and narrow dihedral. This factor is then scaled and multiplied with the similarity measure to obtain the novel vegetation index. The proposed vegetation index is compared with the radar vegetation index (RVI) proposed by Kim and van Zyl. A time series of RADARSAT-2 data acquired during the Soil Moisture Active Passive Validation Experiment 2016 (SMAPVEX16-MB) campaign in Manitoba, Canada, is used to assessing the proposed RVI.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"16 1","pages":"1791-1795"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2019-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2907703","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44604132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discriminative Adaptation Regularization Framework-Based Transfer Learning for Ship Classification in SAR Images","authors":"Y. Xu, H. Lang, Lihui Niu, Chenguang Ge","doi":"10.1109/LGRS.2019.2907139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2907139","url":null,"abstract":"Ship classification in synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) images is of great significance for dealing with various marine matters. Although traditional supervised learning methods have recently achieved dramatic successes, but they are limited by the insufficient labeled training data. This letter presents a novel unsupervised domain adaptation (DA) method, termed as discriminative adaptation regularization framework-based transfer learning (D-ARTL), to address the problem in case that there is no labeled training data available at all in the SAR image domain, i.e., target domain (TD). D-ARTL improves the original ARTL by adding a novel source discriminative information preservation (SDIP) regularization term. This improvement achieves an efficient transfer of interclass discriminative ability from source domain (SD) to TD, while achieving the alignment of cross-domain distributions. Extensive experiments have verified that D-ARTL outperforms state-of-the-art methods on the task of ship classification in SAR images by transferring the automatic identification system (AIS) information.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"16 1","pages":"1786-1790"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2019-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2907139","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41760101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaborative Cross-Domain $k$ NN Search for Remote Sensing Image Processing","authors":"Ying Zhong, Wei Weng, Jianmin Li, Shunzhi Zhu","doi":"10.1109/LGRS.2019.2906686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2906686","url":null,"abstract":"<inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula>NN search is a fundamental function in image processing, which is useful in many real applications, including image cluster, image classification, and image understanding and analysis in general. In this light, we propose and study a novel collaborative cross-domain <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula>NN search (CD-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula>NN) in multidomain space. Given a query location <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$q$ </tex-math></inline-formula> in a multidomain space (e.g., spatial domain, temporal domain, textual domain, and so on), the CD-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula>NN finds top-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$k$ </tex-math></inline-formula> data points with the minimum distance to <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">$q$ </tex-math></inline-formula>. This problem is challenging due to two reasons. First, how to define practical distance measures to evaluate the distance in multidomain space. Second, how to prune the search space efficiently in multiple domains. To address the challenges, we define a linear combination method-based distance measure for multidomain space. Based on the distance measure, a collaborative search method is developed to constrain the CD search space in a comparable smaller range. A pair of upper and lower bounds is defined to prune the search space in multiple domains effectively. Finally, we conduct extensive experiments to verify that the developed methods can achieve a high performance.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"16 1","pages":"1801-1805"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2019-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1109/LGRS.2019.2906686","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46361514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Duncan, S. Farrell, J. Hutchings, J. Richter-Menge
{"title":"Late Winter Observations of Sea Ice Pressure Ridge Sail Height","authors":"K. Duncan, S. Farrell, J. Hutchings, J. Richter-Menge","doi":"10.1002/essoar.10500429.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10500429.1","url":null,"abstract":"Analysis of high-resolution imagery acquired by the Digital Mapping System during annual, late-winter NASA Operation IceBridge surveys of Arctic sea ice between 2010 and 2018 reveals that pressure ridge sail heights (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">${H} _{mathbf {S}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) vary regionally and interannually. We find distinct differences in <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">${H} _{mathbf {S}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> distributions between the central Arctic (CA) and the Beaufort/Chukchi Seas region. Our results show that differences with respect to ice type occur within the tails of the <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">${H} _{mathbf {S}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> distributions and that the 95th and 99th percentiles of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">${H} _{mathbf {S}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> are strong indicators of the predominant ice type in which the pressure ridge formed. During the first part of the study period <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">${H} _{mathbf {S}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> increased, with the largest sails observed in the winters of 2015 and 2016, after which <inline-formula> <tex-math notation=\"LaTeX\">${H} _{mathbf {S}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> declined, suggesting that the most heavily deformed sea ice may have drifted beyond the area surveyed and exited the CA. Our analysis of the interannual and regional variability in sea ice deformation in the western Arctic during the last decade provides an improved understanding of sail height that will help advance ridge parameterizations in sea ice models.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"18 1","pages":"1525-1529"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2019-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/essoar.10500429.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48221682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notice to the reader","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/lgrs.2013.2256414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2013.2256414","url":null,"abstract":"—An adapted state-of-the-art method of processing information known as Reservoir Computing is used to show its utility on the open and time-consuming problem of heartbeat classifi-cation. The MIT-BIH arrhythmia database is used following the guidelines of the Association for the Advancement of Medical In-strumentation. Our approach requires a computationally inexpensive preprocessing of the electrocardiographic signal leading to a fast algorithm and approaching a real-time classification solution. Our multiclass classification results indicate an average specificity of 97.75% with an average accuracy of 98.43%. Sensitivity and positive predicted value show an average of 84.83% and 88.75%, respectively, what makes our approach significant for its use in a clinical context.","PeriodicalId":13046,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89886409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}