{"title":"Segment-based urban block outlining in high-resolution SAR images","authors":"F. Dell’acqua, P. Gamba, L. Odasso, G. Lisini","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137586","url":null,"abstract":"While analysing remotely sensed images of urban areas, in many cases an at least approximate knowledge of block partition is useful for specialising operations over areas within which a certain degree of homogeneity can be assumed. Unfortunately, though, this information is not always accessible in a reasonable time or with a reasonable effort, or even in some cases a GIS of the city is not available at all. Automatic extraction of block boundaries becomes thus an interesting means of obtaining such information. City blocks are usually separated by major urban roads; this paper presents a preliminary work on the use of a linear feature extractor, originally developed for road network extraction, as a tool to partition a very high resolution SAR scene acquired over an urban area.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129535545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hu Huiping, Zhao Jingjing, Wu Bingfang, Zhou Yuemin
{"title":"The method and applications of remote sensing in urban building heating-loss monitoring","authors":"Hu Huiping, Zhao Jingjing, Wu Bingfang, Zhou Yuemin","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137475","url":null,"abstract":"Taken Beijing for example, the paper studies on monitoring technology for urban building heating-loss using remote sensing. Integrating high resolution multi-spectral data, ground data from thermal infrared imaging devices, districts attributes, spatial analysis is done to estimate the feasibility of remote sensing application for building energy saving. What's more, the main factors of building energy-saving are analyzed, and energy use recommendation is given in the end.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116635329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A classification method for building detection based on LiDAR point clouds","authors":"Mei Zhou, B. Xia, G. Su, L. Tang, Chanrong Li","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137608","url":null,"abstract":"Building detection using LiDAR data is a popular topic in LiDAR data processing. The object classification can play an important role in the detection. In this paper, a new algorithm based on LiDAR point clouds is developed to resolve the object classification difficulties in the case of trees close to buildings. Compared with other algorithms, the methods can work effectively due to use the combination of height texture and regular geometric element. The experiment results is also given and discussed to improve the validity of the proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116780399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating urban impervious surfaces using LS-SVM with multi-scale texture","authors":"Zhang Youjing, Chen Liang, He Chuan","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137646","url":null,"abstract":"Various methodologies have been used to estimate and map percent impervious surface using medium resolution remote sensing imagery. However, there appears to be few study conducted on the use of SVR for estimating ratio of impervious surfaces. The aim of this paper is to compare the effectiveness both of two advanced algorithms and three feature set for estimating and describing impervious surface. Landsat imagery (acquired on Sep. 16, 2000 and Apr. 2, 2006) in Nanjing, China, were used for the analysis. The linear spectral mixture analysis (LSMA) and least-squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) were employed to extract impervious surface. Accurate assessment was performed against a high-resolution IKONOS image. The results show that LS-SVM was more effective than LSMA in extracting impervious surfaces with high statistical accuracy. The root-mean-square error (RMSE) of the impervious surface map using LS-SVM model was 0.106 compared with 0.246 using LSMA. Also, the LS-SVM with multi-scale texture was obtained the lowest error than the spectrum and single scale texture. It is demonstrated that the LS-SVM with multi-scale texture is of capability of handling the nonlinear mixing of the image spectrum and the complex distribution of urban objects.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125140252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Point cloud segmentation towards urban ground modeling","authors":"Jorge Hernández, B. Marcotegui","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137562","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new method for segmentation and interpretation of 3D point clouds from mobile LIDAR data. The main contribution of this work is the automatic detection and classification of artifacts located at the ground level. The detection is based on Top-Hat of hole filling algorithm of range images. Then, several features are extracted from the detected connected components (CCs). Afterward, a stepwise forward variable selection by using Wilk's Lambda criterion is performed. Finally, CCs are classified in four categories (lampposts, pedestrians, cars, the others) by using a SVM machine learning method.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114914902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The progress and prospect of Remote Sensing for aerosol optical depth","authors":"Gao Yu-ling, Xia Li-hua, Wang Fang, Huang Jing","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137582","url":null,"abstract":"The aerosol optical depth (AOD) which is an important physical parameter to attribute the atmospheric turbidity is presented in this paper. It can be used to reflect the air pollution concentration. High resolution Remote Sensing Images can be applied to estimate the AOD, which are capable to reflect the concrete distribution and the changing trend. MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer), with hierarchical date format, abundant information, quickly acquiring date and wide range of coverage date, has been widely used on observing the aerosol. It is important in application to get the macroscopic and continuous AOD; it has become a popular topic in the aerosol research and the global climate change study. In this paper the authors state the AOD retrieval algorithms, and give a review of national current status, and prospect the future work.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115569286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fast InSAR multichannel phase unwrapping for DEM generation","authors":"G. Ferraioli, A. Shabou, F. Tupin, V. Pascazio","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137533","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a method to solve the multichannel phase unwrapping problem is presented. MAP approach together with Markov Random Fields have proved to be effective, allowing to restore the uniqueness of the solution without introducing external constraints to regularize the problem. The idea is to develop a fast algorithm to unwrap the interferometric phase in the multichannel configuration, which is, in the main time, able to provide the global optimum solution. To reach this target, an a priori model based on Total Variation is used together with optimization algorithm based on graph-cut technique. The proposed approach has been tested both on simulated and real data. The obtained results show the effectiveness of our approach.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122613179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A preliminary study of three training methods for land cover classification by artificial neural networks","authors":"Libin Zhou, Xiaojun Yang","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137498","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports our preliminary study that aims to examine the effectiveness of training methods for land cover classification by artificial neural networks. We consider three training methods, namely, the gradient descent method, the conjugate gradient method, and the Quasi-Newton method. We apply these methods to derive land cover information from a Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) scene covering a urban area. Our initial experiment results suggest training methods can affect the overall efficiency of neural networks in terms of land cover classification accuracy.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124572503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Variable shape models for LS-based automatic building extraction from VHR satellite imagery","authors":"Weian Wang, Yi Liu, Jiao Lu, B. Zheng","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137647","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a level set based automatic building extraction method using prior shapes. We introduce a variable shape model which together with the level set function for segmentation dynamically indicates the region with which the prior shape should be compared. Our model is capable of segmenting an object from an image based on the image intensity as well as the prior shape. In addition, the proposed model permits translation, scaling and rotation of the prior shape. Moreover, a fast way is also established for the minimization of our functional. The experiments validate our model.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126702038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liu Guang, Guo Huadong, Fan Jinghui, G. Xiaofang, Z. Perski, Yue Huanyin
{"title":"Mining area subsidence monitoring using multi-band SAR data","authors":"Liu Guang, Guo Huadong, Fan Jinghui, G. Xiaofang, Z. Perski, Yue Huanyin","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137665","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, DInSAR technique has been applied to the monitoring of mining induced land subsidence in many areas. In this paper, the DInSAR technique is used to process the space borne SAR data including C band ENVISAT ASAR and L band JERS, PALSAR SAR data to derive the temporal land subsidence information in Fengfeng coal mine area, Hebei province in China. Since JERS do not have precise orbit, an orbit adjustment must be accomplish before the DInSAR interferogram was formed. We designed a images coregistration method based on the imaging geometry of interferometric SAR, and an external DEM. We analyzed 8 differential interferograms derived from JERS SAR, PALSAR, ENVISAT ASAR data. In our analysis, the DInSAR results were compared with leveling data that show high consistency. The characteristics of phase pattern on these C band and L band deformation interferograms were compared; we can notice that in most situations, the obtained deformation pattern on the surface is not the same of L and C band. And at last the feasibility and limitations in mining subsidence monitoring with DInSAR were analyzed. The experimental result shows that both C band and L band can accomplish monitoring mining area subsidence, but C band has more restrict conditions of its perpendicular baseline. In order to get a satisfactory outcome in mining area subsidence by DInSAR method, the time series of SAR images of every visit period and SAR deformation interferograms should be archived.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130667866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}