{"title":"Physical characterisation of deprivation in cities: How can remote sensing help to profile poverty (slum dwellers) in the megacity of Delhi/India?)","authors":"M. Netzband, Atiqur Rahman","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137652","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137652","url":null,"abstract":"Addressing the question ‘Is the world urbanizing in a context of poverty?’ has been so far based on limited information. There is only poor scientific and operational knowledge of this process. Urban growth & land consumption patterns are poorly understood (i.e. coastal cities are growing faster; they are disproportionately urban and with higher densities). Thus, the available information is inadequate for policy & planning. Due to their microstructure, irregularity and direct adaptation to local conditions and the terrain, a generically applicable mapping of these settlements is difficult. The focus of the proposed paper will be laid on experiences in identifying slums and informal settlements in the Megacity of Delhi/India by means of high resolution remote sensing in order to help spatially profile poverty in very complex (cluttered) and partly hard to control giant and fast growing urbanized regions. An integrated approach using ASTER satellite data and GIS is applied in conjunction with socio-economic data collected from different government offices for assessing such urban issues.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"76 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":"124487723","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":"Non-parametric multiple level set model for efficient image classification in urban areas","authors":"Ying Lin, Yun Yang","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137591","url":null,"abstract":"Multispectral remotely sensing imagery with high spatial resolution, such as QuickBird, IKONOS satellite imagery or Aerial imagery, especially in urban scenes, often perform spectral variations and rich details within a category, resulting in a poor accuracy of classification. To seek an efficient solution, this paper presents a non-parametric and variational multiple level set model by a joint use of Aerial image and two products, digital terrain model (DTM) and digital surface model (DSM), directly or indirectly derived from raw LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) 3D point cloud data. Proposed model is to minimize an energy function. The energy includes two terms. First term is mainly image-based energy which introduces Parzen Window density estimation technique in the multiple level set framework. To make up the disadvantages brought by only multispectral image-based classification scheme mentioned above. A novel energy constraint term is added by combining elevation information of objects derived from LiDAR raw point cloud. Thus, a closely integrated and effective classification model under variational level set framework has formed. Finally, comparative experiments on a pair of Aerial image and LiDAR point cloud data have demonstrated the our proposal can obtain more accurate and detailed classification than that of relevant methods only depending on spectral information of image.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"1 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":"125773936","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":"Construction of geographic information network sharing framework","authors":"Guangxue Li, Wei Shen, Weixi Wang, S. Liu","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137581","url":null,"abstract":"The problems on how to make full use of the existing network resources should be resolved as soon as possible. By achieving this goal, the geographic information can be shared on the Internet. Also, social management, social standards and the quality of life could be enhanced. Moreover, the management of social and people's lives will change in the remote manner. The main issue is to build a geographic information platform and to determine the network information resources and the relative position of rational utilization of social resources so that the use of resources can be rational. Geographic information sharing network frame construction is studied in the paper at the same time. At last, the paper concludes that the two-dimensional geographic information network resources sharing can transformed into three-dimensional by government-led, technology support and user requirements.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"24 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":"121630362","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":"Monitoring ground subsidence in mining area using spaceborne InSAR technology","authors":"Jianguo He, Guang Liu, Huanyin Yue","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137668","url":null,"abstract":"A case study of INSAR application to monitor the ground subsidence of colliery area in Fengfeng coal mining area, Hebei Province, China is investigated in this paper. Using the data of ENVISAT ASAR and JERS SAR, the interferometric results of this area are derived. At the same time as acquisition of ENVISAT ASAR data, field leveling measurement in this area was carried out, and the historical excavation data were collected as well. A synthetic comparison is done between the results of D-InSAR and leveling measurement. The comparison shows that the D-InSAR subsidence results are consistent with the field measurement results and the historical excavation data. Finally, some ideas and suggestions about InSAR applications to deformation monitoring in mining areas and mining industrial cities are given based on this case study and other applications.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"1 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":"131346342","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":"Semi-automatic road tracking by template matching and distance transform","authors":"Xiangguo Lin, Jixian Zhang, Zhengjun Liu, Jing Shen","doi":"10.1080/01431161.2010.540587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2010.540587","url":null,"abstract":"Semi-automatic extraction of road networks is greatly needed to accelerate the acquisition and update of geodata. However, the road surfaces are seriously disturbed by occlusion of vehicles or shadows on high resolution remotely sensed imagery in urban areas, which makes most of road trackers, using least-squares template matching, inefficient. Fortunately, the scale of many disturbing features such as vehicles, zebras, lane markings is smaller than one of ribbon road surfaces in urban areas. As a matter of fact, Euclidean distance transform can dilate the pure road surface and erode the small disturbing features if a coarsely template matching by thresholding the differences of gray values is firstly performed. Consequently, the Euclidean distance transformation makes the template matching more robust in tracking road networks in urban areas. In this paper, a novel semi-automatic scheme based on template matching and Euclidean distance transformation is presented to extract ribbon roads in urban areas. A scene of QuickBird image over Tai'an area was used for test. The results show our improved method can reliably and robustly extract road networks in urban areas. The main contribution of this paper is that the method of distance transformation besides least squares can be used in template matching to track road networks with much complexity has been strongly proved.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"1 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":"130060656","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 dynamic assessment of Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity in Guangzhou using RS and GIS","authors":"Wang Yunpeng, Z. Tao, Wang Fang","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137719","url":null,"abstract":"The sustainable urban development research is a hot spot in science, economics, society etc. The Ecological Footprint (EF) method, which originally developed by Wackernagel and Rees in the mid-1990s, is a useful approach to detect the sustainability of the city. The Ecological Footprint (EF) is a measure of human demand on the bioproductive land area that is required to support the resource demands of a given population or specific activities. Comparing with Biocapacity (BC), which represents the bioproductive supply, EF provides a valuable tool to evaluate the carrying capacity of the earth and human appropriation of resources.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"1 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":"130192805","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}
Mei Yang, Shixin Wang, Yi Zhou, Litao Wang, Chuiqing Zeng
{"title":"A study of urbanization in China based on regionalization using DMSP/OLS night light imagery","authors":"Mei Yang, Shixin Wang, Yi Zhou, Litao Wang, Chuiqing Zeng","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137530","url":null,"abstract":"Urbanization has sprawled rapidly accompanying with transformation of the society, development of economy, increase of urban population and changes of landscape. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) has a unique capability to detect the nocturnal observation of artificial lighting which can reflect urbanization level. Most previous studies had focused on pattern of urbanization development in provincial scale. Also, we carried out study on urbanization of cities in China by using DMSP/OLS night light imagery. Different from the other studies, we introduced the Regionalization into the process of modeling. The results showed that there was significant linear relationship between urbanization level index and night light index and regionalization could greatly increase the strength of linear relationship between these two indices.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"96 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":"133950256","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":"Air quality assessment for Beijing city by retrieving aerosol optical thickness from HJ-1A/B images using structure function method","authors":"Chunyan Zhou, Qinhuo Liu, Yongming Du, Kai Wang","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137484","url":null,"abstract":"Structure Function Method (SFM) is discussed through choosing optimal structure function formula, distance value and window size, and is used to retrieve aerosol optical thickness (AOT) over Beijing and its surrounding area in this paper. 6SV1 is chose to create look-up table. Effect of polarization for different aerosol models is studied in detail in the paper, and results show that polarization should be considered in retrieving AOT over urban area. The retrieved result using SFM could reflect the distribution of AOT. So, Air quality could be assessed by retrieving AOT over Beijing city.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"73 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":"131247048","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":"Building extraction and 3D reconstruction in urban areas from high-resolution optical and SAR imagery","authors":"H. Sportouche, F. Tupin, L. Denise","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137746","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose to investigate the joint use of high-resolution optical and SAR data, for building extraction and 3D reconstruction in large urban areas. A sequence of methods providing, in a semi-automatic way, the building detection and reconstruction is presented. Potential building footprints are first extracted on an optical image by a two-phases process (coarse detection and boundaries refinement). The framework of fusion with SAR data is then developed. A first step of registration allows us to get a fine superposition of optical and SAR building features. Then, we show how to take benefit from the introduction of SAR data: The proposed methodology, based on the optimization of criteria refering to building SAR characteristics, allows us to simultaneously deal with the building presence validation and with the height retrieval.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"15 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":"132742782","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":"An improved N-FINDR algorithm for endmember extraction in hyperspectral imagery","authors":"Xue Zhang, X. Tong, Miao-long Liu","doi":"10.1109/URS.2009.5137677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/URS.2009.5137677","url":null,"abstract":"Since recent advances of remote sensing instruments have significantly improved sensor's spectral resolution, pixel resolution is larger than the object size, such that the hyperspectral signal collected by the sensor at each pixel is formed by an integration of signals, which can be considered macroscopically pure, are usually named “endmembers” in hyperspectral image. It is top of all in the hyperspectral analysis that the endmembers should be extracted from the image. N-FINDR algorithm, one of the most popular and effective endmember extraction algorithms, implements with the random initialization of the procedure which brings about the blindfold replacement of the endmembers, and the innumerable volume calculation causes a low speed of the algorithm. However, many published research on N-FINDR algorithm missed the comprehensive consideration of improvement in the two aspects. In this paper, two very typical improvements were applied to integrate the performance using automatic target generation process algorithm (ATGP) algorithm initialized endmember set and the distance calculation to replace the volume calculation in N-FINDR algorithm. The simulate experiment was finally implemented to demonstrate better performance of the hybrid improved N-FINDR algorithm by comparison with original N-FINDR algorithm (ONF), N-FINDR algorithm with initialized endmember set (INF) and N-FINDR algorithm with distance calculation other than volume calculation (DNF) using synthesis hyperspectral image. By comparing experiment results, it is indicated that in contrast to the other three algorithms, the hybrid improved algorithm in this paper shows the best performance that it needs a small amount of the spectrum set replacement and const the least of the procedure time.","PeriodicalId":154334,"journal":{"name":"2009 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event","volume":"56 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":"131416960","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}