{"title":"Omnibus test for change detection in a time sequence of polarimetric SAR data","authors":"A. Nielsen, K. Conradsen, H. Skriver","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729878","url":null,"abstract":"Based on an omnibus likelihood ratio test statistic for the equality of several variance-covariance matrices following the complex Wishart distribution with an associated p-value and a factorization of this test statistic, change analysis in a (short) time series of multilook, polarimetric SAR data in the covariance matrix representation is carried out. The omnibus test statistic and its factorization detect if and when change(s) occur. The technique is demonstrated on airborne EMISAR C-band data but may be applied to ALOS, COSMO-SkyMed, RadarSat-2, Sentinel-1, TerraSAR-X, and Yoagan or other dual- and quad/full-pol data also.","PeriodicalId":179622,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115609587","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 Havemann-Taylor Fast Radiative Transfer Code: A line-by-line sensor independent Radiative Transfer Code","authors":"J. Thelen, S. Havemann","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730031","url":null,"abstract":"The Havemann-Taylor Fast Radiative Transfer Code (HT-FRTC) is based on Principal Components (PCs) and allows fast and exact radiance and/or transmittance calculations. It is ideally suited for the simulation of hyperspectral sensors with hundreds or thousands of channels. The HT-FRTC can simulate a full instrument spectrum for any atmosphere and surface within a few milliseconds. It works for satellite-based, airborne and ground-based sensors. The code has been applied in any part of the spectrum from the short-wave to the long-wave (i.e. infrared plus microwave). It includes the solar and the lunar source and can account for the spherical Earth. The HT-FRTC has been incorporated into a one-dimensional variational (1D-Var) retrieval system that also works solely in PC space. This keeps the dimensions of the matrices involved small. The solution of the full non-linear problem is achieved by an iterative Levenberg-Marquardt minimization procedure. The retrieval state vector includes the vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature, water vapour and ozone, and possibly other trace gases as well as the surface temperature and surface emissivity / reflectivity (the latter being represented by a set of PCs). For a scattering atmosphere, cloud parameters and aerosol parameters have been added to the state vector. The cloud part of the state vector for cirrus cloud includes cloud-top pressure, ice water content, cloud fraction and cloud geometrical thickness. For water cloud there is also an effective droplet size.","PeriodicalId":179622,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115673174","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":"Observation of tide from X-band marine radar image sequences","authors":"Zhong-Zhong Chen, Yijun He, Jiayi Pan, Biao Zhang, X. Chu","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729644","url":null,"abstract":"Tide has been monitored by tide-gauge stations and spaceborne radar altimeters. A new method to estimate the characteristics of coastal tide from X-band marine radar image sequences is proposed. The significant wave height (SWH) is firstly retrieved from X-band marine radar image sequence, and then filtered to remove the influences of noises. The main tide period is retrieved by analyzing the spectrum of the time series of filtered SWH. The change rate of the tide elevation can be obtained from the change rate of the amplitude of filtered SWH. The method is validated by comparing with the predictions from an ocean tide model.","PeriodicalId":179622,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124402614","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":"Band selection of hyperspectral data with low-rank doubly stochastic matrix decomposition","authors":"Jiming Li","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729002","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, a clustering-based band selection method is proposed to tackle the dimension reduction problem of hyperspectral data. The method is essentially based on low-rank doubly stochastic matrix decomposition, which is more stable than current low-rank approximation clustering methods. Experimental results show that the selected band subsets perform well in hyperspectral data classification problems.","PeriodicalId":179622,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124424868","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 canopy radiative transfer model suitable for heterogeneous Agro-Forestry scenes","authors":"Yelu Zeng, Jing Li, Qinhuo Liu, Gaofei Yin, Baodong Xu, Weiliang Fan, Jing Zhao","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729945","url":null,"abstract":"Landscape heterogeneity is a common natural phenomenon but is seldom considered in current radiative transfer models for predicting the surface reflectance. This paper developed an analytical Radiative Transfer model for heterogeneous Agro-Forestry scenes (RTAF). The scattering contribution of the non-boundary regions can be estimated from the SAILH model as homogeneous canopies, whereas that of the boundary regions is calculated based on the bidirectional gap probability by considering the interactions and mutual shadowing effects among different patches. The multi-angular airborne observations and Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer (DART) model simulations were used to validate and evaluate the RTAF model over an agro-forestry scene in Heihe River Basin, China. The results suggest the RTAF model can accurately simulate the hemispherica-directional reflectance factors (HDRFs) of the heterogeneous scenes in the red and near-infrared (NIR) bands. The boundary effect can significantly influence the angular distribution of the HDRFs and consequently enlarge the HDRF variations between the backward and forward directions. Compared with the widely used dominant cover type (DCT) and spectral linear mixture (SLM) models, the RTAF model reduced the maximum relative error from 25.7% (SLM) and 23.0% (DCT) to 9.8% in the red band, and from 19.6% (DCT) and 13.7% (SLM) to 8.7% in the NIR band. The RTAF model provides a promising way to improve the retrieval of biophysical parameters (e.g. leaf area index) from remote sensing data over heterogeneous agro-forestry scenes.","PeriodicalId":179622,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123169048","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}
Christian Wohlfart, Gaohuan Liu, Chong Huang, C. Kuenzer
{"title":"Multi-temporal analysis of land surface dynamics in the Yellow River Basin (China)","authors":"Christian Wohlfart, Gaohuan Liu, Chong Huang, C. Kuenzer","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730422","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic landscapes, such as the Yellow River Basin in China, require consistent and precise land use and land cover information to better understand the prevailing changes and underlying factors, which are lacking so far. In this study, we derived novel and accurate multi-temporal land cover products, delineating the land surface characteristics from the last decade based on high-temporal MODIS time series at 250 m resolution and evaluated major land surface dynamics in a very complex and heterogeneous river basin.","PeriodicalId":179622,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123170318","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":"WMO Integrated Global Observing Systems (WIGOS) - current and future needs","authors":"Wenjian Zhang","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730437","url":null,"abstract":"WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS) ids an integrated, coordinated and comprehensive observing system (including both surface-based and space-based components) to satisfy, in a cost-effective and sustained manner, the evolving observing requirements of Members in delivering their weather, climate, water and related environmental services. WIGOS will provide a framework for enabling the integration and optimized evolution of WMO observing systems, and of WMO's contribution to co-sponsored systems, resulting in increased knowledge and enhanced services across all WMO Programmes.","PeriodicalId":179622,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114665660","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}
R. Husson, A. Mouche, B. Chapron, H. Johnsen, F. Collard, Pauline Vincent, G. Guitton, N. Longépé, G. Hajduch, Y. Quilfen, L. Gaultier
{"title":"Taking advantage of Sentinel-1 acquisition modes to improve ocean sea state retrieval","authors":"R. Husson, A. Mouche, B. Chapron, H. Johnsen, F. Collard, Pauline Vincent, G. Guitton, N. Longépé, G. Hajduch, Y. Quilfen, L. Gaultier","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730009","url":null,"abstract":"Sentinel-1's SAR instrument offers a number of improvements with respect to its predecessor ENVISAT/ASAR such as a much better Wave Mode imagette coverage, improved Doppler estimator allowing higher resolution Doppler grid, more systematic dual-polarizations and a new TOPSAR acquisition mode. In the context of SEOM program, the Sentinel-1 ocean study offers to take advantage of these new capabilities to improve the retrieval of ocean sea state parameters: surface wind fields, directional wave spectrum, total significant wave height and surface currents. The study also tackles the ability to conduct a synergetic retrieval scheme in which the mutual effects of sea state components are taken into account.","PeriodicalId":179622,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116705467","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":"Assessment of near-nadir correlation characteristics over water bodies using interferometric SAR: Implications for the swot mission","authors":"D. Moller, G. Farquharson, D. Esteban-Fernandez","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7729833","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces the use of an airborne interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) to estimate water surface decorrelation times at Ka-Band. Such an assessment is directly relevant to the upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, especially for surface water bodies such as lakes and rivers since the surface decorrelation may limit the spatial resolution achievable by the mission to delineate water spatial boundaries. Initial assessments indicate decorrelation times consistent with limited published observations for the ocean and fresh water bodies (several milliseconds). However, there are challenges both in terms of the phenomenology and in the instrument sensitivity to longer decorrelations.","PeriodicalId":179622,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)","volume":"1279 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116780239","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}
M. Manunta, M. Bonano, S. Buonanno, F. Casu, C. Luca, A. Fusco, R. Lanari, M. Manzo, C. Ojha, A. Pepe, I. Zinno
{"title":"Unsupervised parallel SBAS-DInSAR chain for massive and systematic Sentinel-1 data processing","authors":"M. Manunta, M. Bonano, S. Buonanno, F. Casu, C. Luca, A. Fusco, R. Lanari, M. Manzo, C. Ojha, A. Pepe, I. Zinno","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730010","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we present an efficient interferometric processing chain, based on the advanced DInSAR algorithm referred to as Parallel Small BAseline Subset (P-SBAS), for the generation of Sentinel-1A (S1A) Interferometric Wide Swath deformation time-series, which is able to exploit distributed computing architectures. The presented S1A P-SBAS processing chain has been successfully implemented within the ESA Geohazard Exploitation Platform to provide an on-demand automatic service for the unsupervised generation of P-SBAS displacement time-series. To give an idea of the effectiveness of the presented S1A processing chain, as a preliminary result we show a 12-days interferometric analysis at continental scale, carried out by exploiting 150 S1A interferometric pairs acquired over Europe for an overall covered area of about 7,500,000 km2.","PeriodicalId":179622,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116967102","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}