{"title":"Analysis on coherence changes of dam surface in TerraSAR Strip mode interferograms","authors":"Tao Li, Chunlong Gong, Mingyan Xia, Zonghuang Jin","doi":"10.1117/12.912337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912337","url":null,"abstract":"The high resolution images of TerraSAR has made it able to reflect the detail characters of large-scale manmade structures, so monitoring local deformation of large-sized buildings comes to be available. Former research had shown that InSAR phase of the dam surface was stable and consecutive. This paper aimed to make a further proof of the viability of monitoring dam's deformation using 3-meter-resolution strip mode images of TerraSAR. So we made a time series analysis of dam surface's coherence for the next step. Our dataset had eleven images covering three medium size basins of Shenzhen. Coherence of different features in the basin area including dams was extracted to make a comparative analysis. Two different combination methods were designed to create interferometric pairs to find the influence of time baseline and perpendicular baseline to coherence of different cultures. In our research, it was find out that coherence of dam surface was mainly influenced by time baseline. In short time baseline pairs (eleven days), coherence of dam surface was about 0.2 higher than vegetation slope in average. DInSAR process was suitable for short time baseline interferometric pairs, other methods such as PS will be needed for long time baseline interferometric pairs.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126405635","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":"Detecting surface deformation by phase stacking based on the PS","authors":"M. Hao, K. Deng, H. Fan","doi":"10.1117/12.912306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912306","url":null,"abstract":"In the surface deformation monitoring, synthetic aperture radar differential interferometry (D-InSAR) has the advantages of all-weather, large-scale and high accuracy, it is hard to form interferogram for limited factors such as spatial decorrelation, temporal decorrelation and atmospheric effect. For the reason, the method of PS-DInSAR was proposed. However, the method needs so many SAR images, more than twenty scenes. Therefore, the method based on the phase stacking of PS for surface deformation monitoring was proposed and verified. The PS-DInSAR model and D-InSAR model are combined and simplified under certain conditions that assume the phase error of atmospheric disturbances are random and equal in an interferogram and the deformation is linear. The optimal master image for interferometric combinations is selected by comprehensive correlation function model. Then the PS points are detected and the Delaunay triangle is established according to the PS. The Minimum Cost Flow is used based on the Delaunay triangle of PS to unwrap the phase. Then the deformation and deformation rate are obtained by the linear analysis for temporal series of interferograms. At last, nine ENVISAT images captured during 2003.6-2006.3 in Tianjin area were processed, and the mean subsidence rate of this area was obtained.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132474115","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 and automatic forest volume estimation based on K nearest neighbor and SAR","authors":"Ying Guo, Zeng-yuan Li, E. Chen, Xu Zhang","doi":"10.1117/12.912332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912332","url":null,"abstract":"In the recent years, the estimation of forest volume using radar data has developed greatly. However, as the radar data was large scale, the efficiency of processing based on KNN decreased seriously. Moreover, because the different K and distance measured method could result in the different accuracy, the treatment could have a low degree of automation under the condition of keeping the relatively better precision. Therefore, the study implemented a tool which could have the feature of fast and automatic processing radar data based on KNN. For enhancing the efficiency of processing, the tool was implemented in the way of parallelization by using the message passing interface (MPI) technology and run on the high performance cluster environment. To certain the suitable parameter automatically such as K and the appropriate distance measured method during the processing; the study used leave-one-out cross-validation method to check the precision and selected the optimum model based on the accuracy. The result shows that the tool accelerated the computation speed as eight time as before while ensuring the treatment precision and improved the automatic degree of the treatment. To some extend, it solved the bottleneck of processing large scale SAR data.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132654030","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":"Comprehensive quality evaluation of airborne lidar data","authors":"Jianwei Wu, W. Yao, Wei Chi, Xiangdong Zhao","doi":"10.1117/12.912588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912588","url":null,"abstract":"As a new data source of remote sensing, airborne LiDAR data quality evaluation is of great importance. This paper focused on the comprehensive quality evaluation of airborne LiDAR data in the following aspects: data integrity, data accuracy , data density, interpretation ability of intensity and the quality of spatial data products from LiDAR data, which aimed to provide a complete reference to airborne LiDAR data quality for practical applications. For data integrity, a data void extraction method based on region growing was proposed to check the completeness of spatial distribution. Data accuracy is a key quality index for LiDAR data quality. Height offset statistics among overlapping strips were calculated to evaluate the relative accuracy. Data density is an important factor influencing the products quality from LiDAR data. The average point spacing can only demonstrate the whole density of the data, whereas the local density is much more important for specific applications. In this paper, the density distribution map is used to reflect the density variations for the whole data. Besides, interpretation ability of intensity is also used to evaluate the quality of the airborne LiDAR data. Quality of DTM was used to evaluate the LiDAR data at last.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132751857","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}
W. Zhu, Q. Zhang, X. Ding, C. Zhao, J. Zhang, F. Qu
{"title":"Surface deformation analysis of Xian (China) in 2009 carried out with refined SBAS-DInSAR","authors":"W. Zhu, Q. Zhang, X. Ding, C. Zhao, J. Zhang, F. Qu","doi":"10.1117/12.912342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912342","url":null,"abstract":"Taking the land subsidence and ground fissure in Xian as the research object and nine Envisat ASAR images spanning the whole year of 2009 as the data source, time series surface deformation of Xian city from January to December in 2009 are obtained by SBAS-DInSAR approach, where the baselines and topographic phase were refined using ground control points (GCP). The results show that Xian is the state of continuous subsidence in 2009 and subsidence funnels are shaped nearly in oval whose long axis direction was approximately parallel to ground fissure direction. Meanwhile, the regional and seasonal characteristics were displayed for these subsidences regional. In addition, spatial distribution of strong activities and active regulation within the year between ground fissures and land subsidence are uniform based on this investigation.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114080880","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 spherical targets fitting method for terrestrial laser scanning data","authors":"Jia Li, De-hua Zheng, Qiuping Lan, Qin Liu","doi":"10.1117/12.912354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912354","url":null,"abstract":"The dominating measurement error of Terrestrial Laser Scanner comes from laser ranging, which is also the major cause of \"tailing points\" appearing at the edge of targets scanned by coaxial laser scanner. Since the existence of such abnormal points, general least squares sphere fitting method cannot correctly position spherical targets or determine the dimension of geometries. Base on the working mechanism of coaxial laser scanner, a surface fitting model is designed in this paper for the spherical targets, and utilize robust least squares method to get model parameters from scanning data with obvious edge noise, then conclude the sphere radius and centre point coordinate. In the end, this paper accomplishes two experiments separately for really scanning data and synthesized data subjecting to scanner's error distribution. The result demonstrates that proposed fitting method can weaken the impact of abnormal points on the edge of spherical targets effectively, get geometric parameters of spherical targets accurately, and exactly locate the spherical targets.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132834624","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":"Study on fusion methods of ASAR and ETM+ data and information extraction","authors":"Jianwei Ma, Xiaoning Song, P. Leng, Xinhui Li","doi":"10.1117/12.912442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912442","url":null,"abstract":"Information extracted from remote sensing data plays an important role in the environment, hydrology and geology study. Optic remote sensing image has plenty of spectrum information and microwave can reflect land surface texture and penetrate ground to some extent. Fusion of microwave and optic remote sensing image will take advantage of mutual complementary information, and extract subsurface information more available. A comprehensive fusion approach between different remote sensing data was proposed, and the ASAR and ETM+ data were chosen as data source. Firstly, panchromatic and multi-spectral images of ETM+ were fused with principal component analysis (PCA) method. Spectral information and spatial detail information of the merged image has been enhanced compared to the original images. Secondly, ASAR and merged ETM+ data were fused using three methods, including multiplicative, Gram-Schmidt and discrete wavelet transformation (DWT). DWT fusion was the primary research content. The image quality after fusion was evaluated by means of visual effects, entropy, average gradient, correlation coefficient and standard deviation. The results show that the image fused with DWT has the highest accuracy, in which more surface and subsurface information can be expressed better. This research will build a foundation for making full use of ASAR and ETM+ data.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132004688","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 high resolution InSAR topographic reconstruction research in urban area based on TerraSAR-X data","authors":"F. Qu, Zhang Qin, Chaoying Zhao, Wu Zhu","doi":"10.1117/12.912433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912433","url":null,"abstract":"Aiming at the problems of difficult unwrapping and phase noise in InSAR DEM reconstruction, especially for the high-resolution TerraSAR-X data, this paper improved the height reconstruction algorithm in view of \"remove-restore\" based on external coarse DEM and multi-interferogram processing, proposed a height calibration method based on CR+GPS data. Several measures have been taken for urban high resolution DEM reconstruction with TerraSAR data. The SAR interferometric pairs with long spatial and short temporal baselines are served for the DEM. The external low resolution and low accuracy DEM is applied for the \"remove-restore\" concept to ease the phase unwrapping. The stochastic errors including atmospheric effects and phase noise are suppressed by weighted averaging of DEM phases. Six TerraSAR-X data are applied to create the twelve-meter's resolution DEM over Xian, China with the newly-proposed method. The heights in discrete GPS benchmarks are used to calibrate the result, and the RMS of 3.29 meter is achieved by comparing with 1:50000 DEM.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122678902","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":"PS InSAR processing methodologies in the detection of ground surface deformation: a case study of Nantong City","authors":"R. Xiao, Xiufeng He, M. He","doi":"10.1117/12.912522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912522","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last two decades, Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometric (InSAR) has proven a remarkable potential tool for observing the Earth surface, especially for mapping the Earth's topography and deformation. It can resolve surface displacement with centimetric accuracy, tens meters of spatial resolution and monthly temporal resolution. The permanent scatterer (PS) technique has been developed later in the 1990s first by A. Ferretti to overcome the major limitations of repeat-pass SAR interferometry: temporal and geometrical decorrelation as well as atmospheric delays. The Ferretti's method, referenced as the Permanent Scatterers TechniqueTM in their patented procedure, works best in urban areas containing large numbers of man-made structures, which tend to be angular and often produce very efficient reflectors that dominate background scattering. In this paper, a series of fifteen ENVISAT ASAR acquisitions of the city of Nantong, located at the mouth of Yangtze River adjacent to Shanghai, covering the period from 2006 to 2007, was analyzed. The PS-InSAR technique and Geographic Information System (GIS) spatial analysis were used to detect ground deformation in the urban area. Results show there was no large, continuous subsidence occurs in the city, however seven subsidence bowls were found. This can be used to define the risk zones for future ground subsidence.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126516992","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 new SAR image denoising algorithm of fusing Kuan filters and edge extraction","authors":"Xiang Zhang, K. Deng, H. Fan","doi":"10.1117/12.912327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912327","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the advantage of all-weather, multi-angle data acquisition, Synthetic Aperture Radar has been widely applied in many areas. However, the speckle noise affects its application seriously. Therefore, suppressing speckle noise effectively is significant for its analysis and application. Against the shortcoming that the Kuan filter can't both suppress speckle effectively and maintain the edge details suitably, we propose a new algorithm, which fuses the Kuan filter and the edge extraction technology. In this algorithm, first we use the Kuan filter with 5× 5 window to process the image, we can get the filtered image which suppress the speckle effectively, but the edge details and texture information loss seriously. Then we use the edge extraction technology to get the image's edge and texture information. At last the pixel values of the edge and texture area of the filtered image are replaced by the result of the edge extraction. Experimental result shows that the improved filtering method not only suppresses the speckle effectively, but also improves the capability of edge details and texture information maintaining. Compared with the traditional filters, the proposed improved filter is effective.","PeriodicalId":194292,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Lidar and Radar Mapping Technologies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132131444","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}