Chuiqing Zeng, Jinfei Wang, Xiaodong Huang, S. Bird, J. Luce
{"title":"Urban water body detection from the combination of high-resolution optical and SAR images","authors":"Chuiqing Zeng, Jinfei Wang, Xiaodong Huang, S. Bird, J. Luce","doi":"10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120525","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an automated water body detection method to delineate detailed water bodies from high-resolution satellite images. It consists of three steps: a) coarse water mask detection from optical imagery using unsupervised classification; b) water mask refinement using backscatter value from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images; and c) advanced morphological filtering to produce a final water mask. The experiments over Calgary Alberta demonstrate the importance of each step and show the advantages of this method relative to traditional methods, namely, its high degree of accuracy, ability to be full-automated, stability and potential for transferability. It is designed for water mask detection at sub-meter accuracy for industrial and governmental users undertaking hydraulic modeling in an urban environment.","PeriodicalId":207233,"journal":{"name":"2015 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131221396","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":"Feature selection for urban impervious surfaces estimation using optical and SAR images","authors":"Hongsheng Zhang, Hui Lin","doi":"10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120483","url":null,"abstract":"Urban impervious surfaces, such as transport related land (e.g., roads, streets, and parking lots) and building roof tops (commercial, residential, and industrial areas), have been widely recognized as important indicator for urban environments. Numerous methods have been proposed to estimate impervious surfaces from remotely sensed images. However, most of these approaches were proposed with optical remote sensing images, and accurate estimation of impervious surfaces remains challenging due to the diversity of urban land covers. This study presents the effort to synergistically combine optical and SAR data to improve the mapping of impervious surfaces using the Random Forest (RF). The Multilayer Perceptron, Support Vector Machine, and RF are compared for impervious surfaces mapping with the single use of optical image and with the combined optical and SAR images. Experiment shows some interesting results: 1) synergistic use of SPOT-5 and TerraSAR-X images produced more accurate classification of impervious surface mapping, no matter what combinations of features are used; 2) The SAN-based features appeared to provide effective complementary information to the conventional GLCM-based features for the classification, increasing the accuracy by about 0.6% by using supervised classifiers; 3) SVM and RF tended to be superior to MLP for the fusion of SPOT-5 and TerraSAR-X images for LULC classification and ISE. RF is better for the LULC classification as it better handled the spectral confusion among sub types of impervious and non-impervious land covers, while SVM appeared more stable before and after the combination of sub land cover types, and thus is more suitable for the ISE with the classification strategies of mapping impervious surface.","PeriodicalId":207233,"journal":{"name":"2015 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131096974","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 change detection in satellite stereo imagery based on belief functions","authors":"Jiaojiao Tian, P. Reinartz, J. Dezert","doi":"10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120482","url":null,"abstract":"3D Building change detection has become a popular research topic along with the improvement of image quality and computer science. When only building changes are of interest, both the multi-temporal images and Digital Surface Models provide valuable but not comprehensive information in the change detection procedure. Therefore, in this paper, belief functions have been adopted for fusing information from these two sources. In the first step, two change indicators are proposed by focusing on building changes. Both indicators have been projected to a sigmoid curve, in which both the concordance and discordance indexes are considered. In order to fuse the concordance and discordance indexes and further fuse the two change indicators, two belief functions are considered. One is the original Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST), and the most recent one is Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT). This paper shows how these belief-based frameworks can help in building change detection problem. Besides using different belief functions in obtaining the global BBAs, four decision-making criteria are tested to extract final building change masks. The results have been validated by compared to the manually extracted change reference mask.","PeriodicalId":207233,"journal":{"name":"2015 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123806844","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 urban transformation in the old city of Shanghai and its former foreign settlements from 1985 to 2014","authors":"Antoine Lefebvre, Jeremy Cheval","doi":"10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120529","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we monitored the urban morphology of the old city of Shanghai and its former foreign concessions from 1985 to 2014. Based on a time-series of Landsat 5, 7 and 8 images, this study used Iteratively Reweighted Multivariate Alteration Detection (IRMAD) analysis to detect land-use modifications from traditional urban pattern to new constructions. Results show that urban transformation mainly started in 1995 and perpetuate at an average rate of 88 ha per year. It also brings out that about 55% of the old urban pattern was modified in 2014. A detailed interpretation highlights the development of modern high-rise buildings, roads and subway networks, green infrastructures but also the conservation of protected historical buildings.","PeriodicalId":207233,"journal":{"name":"2015 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128609158","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 semi-supervised local discriminant analysis for feature extraction of hyperspectral image","authors":"Renbo Luo, Wenzi Liao, W. Philips, Y. Pi","doi":"10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120508","url":null,"abstract":"We propose an improved semi-supervised local discriminant analysis (ISELD) for feature extraction of hyperspectral image in this paper. The proposed ISELD method aims to find a projection which can preserve local neighborhood information and maximize the class discrimination of the data. Compared to the previous SELD, the proposed ISELD better models the correlation of labeled and unlabeled samples. Experimental results on an ROSIS urban hyperspectral image are encouraging. Compared to some recent feature extraction methods, our approach has more than 2% improvements as the training sample size changes.","PeriodicalId":207233,"journal":{"name":"2015 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124612035","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":"Quality-based building-texture selection from different sensors","authors":"Dorota Iwaszczuk, L. Hoegner, Uwe Stilla","doi":"10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120352","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution is focused on the selection of building textures extracted from thermal infrared (TIR) image sequences acquired both from terrestrial and aerial platforms by introducing a quality assessment. Extracted quality features are completeness of the texture, projection accuracy, viewing angle, and geometric resolution. The calculation of the quality features is discussed and results are presented. The proposed method allows to compare the quality of different recordings from different positions and even sensors to obtain the most complete and accurate buildings textures of high geometric resolution.","PeriodicalId":207233,"journal":{"name":"2015 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129426299","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}
O. Bartoli, N. Chahinian, A. Allard, J. Bailly, K. Chancibault, F. Rodriguez, C. Salles, M. Tournoud, C. Delenne
{"title":"Manhole cover detection using a geometrical filter on very high resolution aerial and satellite images","authors":"O. Bartoli, N. Chahinian, A. Allard, J. Bailly, K. Chancibault, F. Rodriguez, C. Salles, M. Tournoud, C. Delenne","doi":"10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120521","url":null,"abstract":"One of the direct consequences of urban growth is the multiplication of buried utility networks. It is difficult to obtain complete and accurate maps of these networks because they have often been produced by different parties at different times. This work aims at putting forward a methodology to detect manhole covers on high resolution images, in order to reconstruct an urban drainage network. A circular detection filter is applied to high resolution orthophotos and Pléiade images to pinpoint mahole covers. The primary results are encouraging as 42% of manhole covers are detected by this method. Further work is carried out to improve the method and extend it to rectangular grates, that are not detected by the circular filter.","PeriodicalId":207233,"journal":{"name":"2015 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132968784","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}
J. Pavanelli, Bruna Virginia Neves, Vanessa Priscila Camphora, T. Korting
{"title":"Remote sensing image processing to identify spatial units of human occupation along Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230), Brazil","authors":"J. Pavanelli, Bruna Virginia Neves, Vanessa Priscila Camphora, T. Korting","doi":"10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120541","url":null,"abstract":"To investigate the urban phenomenon in the Amazon is necessary to observe the cities and communities. Identifying these population nuclei can provide information about where the population is concentrated and how it relates to the space and environment, therefore, how Amazonian urban is structured. This study identified spatial units of human occupation along the Trans-Amazonian Highway (BR-230) by applying remote sensing image processing techniques. The study site is located in Pará state, Brazil, in the municipalities of Altamira, Brasil Novo, Medicilândia and Uruará, inside a 15 km buffered from the Highway. Four Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper orthorrectfied scenes from 2011 were processed using software SPRING. The processing steps consisted in mosaicking the scenes, the application of dilation filter, segmentation and maximum likelihood classification. The validation was based on manual classification of middle resolution RapidEye images (5 metres) and ancillary data from Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Twenty three spatial units of human occupation were mapped and the validation showed a Kappa coefficient of 0.6785. The application of dilation filter during the processing was able to identify spatial units of human occupation in the study site, although some misclassified pixels occurred mainly in small patches.","PeriodicalId":207233,"journal":{"name":"2015 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134240746","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}
G. D. Martino, A. D. Simone, A. Iodice, D. Riccio, G. Ruello
{"title":"SAR Shape from shading in suburban areas","authors":"G. D. Martino, A. D. Simone, A. Iodice, D. Riccio, G. Ruello","doi":"10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120503","url":null,"abstract":"Shape-from-shading (SfS) techniques can be applied to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images in order to obtain estimates of the slopes and, then, the elevation of the observed scene. Recently the authors proposed a new SfS technique for natural scenarios, based on the use of fractal surface models: problems can arise if non-natural features are present in the observed scene. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of manmade structures on the technique's performance: in particular, the SfS algorithm is applied on a SAR image in which a suburban environment is present. A deep analysis of the main issues is performed and possible solutions are presented and discussed.","PeriodicalId":207233,"journal":{"name":"2015 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126785625","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":"Impact of spatial and spectral resolutions on the classification of urban areas","authors":"R. Oltra-Carrió, X. Briottet, M. Bonhomme","doi":"10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120509","url":null,"abstract":"Classification of land cover in urban areas can play an important role in urban planning decisions and in characterizing urban materials properties such as reflectance. Taking into account the large offer of new and future remote sensing sensors with different spectral and spatial characteristics, it is important to compare their classification performances in urban area. To this aim, this work simulates from airborne data the at sensor images acquired by three space borne instruments (Pléiades, SENTINEL-2 and HYPXIM) in the Visible Near Infrared (0.4 μm - 1.0 μm) and Shortwave Infrared (1.0 μm-2.5μm) spectral ranges. Five classification maps with 8 land cover classes over the city of Toulouse (France) are generated with a Support Vector Machine rule. Correct values of accuracy are obtained in all cases (kappa coefficient higher than 0.65 and overall accuracy better than 70 %). Nevertheless, coarser spatial resolutions do not allow mapping urban details and SWIR data was necessary to discriminate between classes.","PeriodicalId":207233,"journal":{"name":"2015 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129878918","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}