Xiaolong Dong, P. Chang, A. Stoffelen, M. Portabella, Rajeev Kuma, S. Linow, Juhong Zou, Wenming Lin, Xing-ou Xu
{"title":"Overview of the Standards and Metrics of Ocean Surface Vector Wind by Spaceborne Microwave Remote Sensing","authors":"Xiaolong Dong, P. Chang, A. Stoffelen, M. Portabella, Rajeev Kuma, S. Linow, Juhong Zou, Wenming Lin, Xing-ou Xu","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554852","url":null,"abstract":"Decades of ocean surface vector wind (OSVW) data acquired from space-based radar scatterometry have been providing short and long-term researches and applications information about ocean surfaces. The main objective of the project, stands and metrics of ocean surface vector wind by space-borne microwave remote sensing, of W orking Group on Calibration and Validation of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS WGCV), is to develop the standard and guideline for the requirement, procedure, processing and assessment for the space borne radar scatterometer measurement calibration, wind retrieval approaches, wind data validation and assessment for OSVW, which will be used to assure the consistency of the data quality of these satellites and instruments are the prerequisite for related scientific researches and applications. This synthesizes calibration, standardized practices of retrieval approaches for ocean surface winds, development of guidelines/standards of validation of ocean surface winds, and identifying and organizing collocation related data. This presentation will provide an overview of the proj ect and the recent progresses.","PeriodicalId":315312,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127163848","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":"Spectral and Spatial Residual Attention Network for Joint Hyperspectral and Lidar Data Classification","authors":"Jing Wang, Jun Zhou, Xinwen Liu, Farah Jahan","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554312","url":null,"abstract":"Hyperspectral (HS) imaging and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) are widely used in remote sensing to acquire data from a same area of earth surface. HS image and LiDAR data contain complementary information of the target objects. Jointly using these two data modalities has great potential in land cover classification. In recent years, deep learning based fusion methods demonstrated promising performance on this task. However, how to better model the relationship of heterogeneous features from HS and LiDAR and their importance for the classification remains a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a spectral and spatial residual attention network for HS and LiDAR fusion and classification. A spectral residual attention module and a spatial residual attention module are designed in the network for better feature learning and fusion. Experiments on widely adopted Houston dataset demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":315312,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127202426","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. Calvet, B. Bonan, Anthony Mucia, D. Shamambo, Yongjun Zheng, C. Albergel
{"title":"Integrating Satellite-Derived Vegetation Variables into the ISBA Model: A Sequential Data Assimilation Approach","authors":"J. Calvet, B. Bonan, Anthony Mucia, D. Shamambo, Yongjun Zheng, C. Albergel","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553560","url":null,"abstract":"A global land data assimilation system (LDAS-Monde) was developed by CNRM. It uses a version of the interactions between soil, biosphere, and atmosphere (ISBA) land surface model able to simulate photosynthesis and plant growth. Vegetation variables such as leaf area index (LAI) and surface soil moisture can be jointly assimilated in the model. Sequential assimilation of LAI is possible thanks to the fully photosynthesis-driven phenology. The simulated LAI is flexible and can be analyzed at a given date. Also, the assimilation of LAI alone can be used to analyze the root-zone soil moisture. The assimilation of level 1 microwave observations is being investigated. Recent results and potential applications of LDAS-Monde are presented.","PeriodicalId":315312,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127234805","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":"Characterising Spectroradiometer Instrumental Spectral Performance and Its Impact on Retrieved Reflectances","authors":"Simon A. Trim, A. Hueni, Kimberley Mason","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553320","url":null,"abstract":"The accurate characterisation of the instrumental spectral performance of field spectroradiometers acquires particular importance in view of the instruments' widespread use for calibrating and validating airborne- and satellite-based optical sensor systems. Typically, spectral calibration relies on the basic assumption of a Gaussian instrumental spectral response function (ISRF). We test alternative ISRF parameterisations and examine the resulting changes in spectral performance of four ASD field spectroradiometers. We then use a MODTRAN-simulated spectrum to compare an ideal Bottom Of Atmosphere (BOA) reflectance with the reflectances derived from ASD-convolved radiances using nominal (per ASD specifications), Gaussian and Symmetric Super Gaussian parameterisations of the spectroradiometers. We highlight the impact of the small but significant differences by retrieving the Photochemical Reflectance Index (PRI) values, which change by a few percentage points compared to the reference PRI.","PeriodicalId":315312,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127332732","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":"Principal Component Analysis Based Polynomial Chaos Expansion Regression of Leaf Area Index from Polsar Imagery","authors":"M. F. Celik, E. Erten","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554929","url":null,"abstract":"Predicting biophysical parameters with high accuracy and fast speed based on remote sensing-based modeling is an attractive topic. In this context, the revisit time, coverage, and illumination condition in-dependency make the Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PoISAR) data is an attractive tool. In this paper, one of the most studied biophysical parameters, Leaf Area Index (LAI), is chosen to assess Polynomial Chaos Expansion (PCE) regression, commonly used metamodeling due to its precise and rapid approximation performance. Experimental analysis based on AgriSAR 2009 campaign, including oat and canola, is given to validate the PCE in the regression. According to the accuracy analysis, the Pearson correlation of 88% and 95% for oat and canola, respectively, were achieved.","PeriodicalId":315312,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127458625","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}
Sara Pérez-Carabaza, V. Syrris, P. Kempeneers, P. Soille
{"title":"Crop Classification from Sentinel-2 Time Series with Temporal Convolutional Neural Networks","authors":"Sara Pérez-Carabaza, V. Syrris, P. Kempeneers, P. Soille","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554358","url":null,"abstract":"Automated crop identification tools are of interest to a wide range of applications related to the environment and agriculture including the monitoring of related policies such as the European Common Agriculture Policy. In this context, this work presents a parcel-based crop classification system which leverages on 1D convolutional neural network supervised learning capacity. For the training and evaluation of the model, we employ open and free data: (i) time series of Sentinel-2 optical data selected to cover the crop season of one year, and (ii) a cadastre-derived database providing detailed delineation of parcels. By considering the most dominant crop types and the temporal features of the optical data, the proposed lightweight approach discriminates a considerable number of crops with high accuracy.","PeriodicalId":315312,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124886612","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":"Agglutination of Sub-Basins Using Shreve Order","authors":"S. Rosim, M. D. Martino","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554333","url":null,"abstract":"Morphometric and hydrological variables of a river basin are fundamental tools for water quality management within the basin. The paper aims to provide a method for the calculation of morphometric and hydrological variables based on a sub-basins agglutination strategy. The agglutination respects the topology of the existing drainage network within the hydrographic basin according to Shreve's stream order. Preliminary results are provided: TerraHidro system developed at INPE is used to assess a set of variables, in particular, the morphometric variable Gradient Factor and the hydrological variable Maximum Drainage Order of Strahler. An exemplified application is provided considering the Brazilian Brumadinho dam basin.","PeriodicalId":315312,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125122468","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":"Urban Flood Detection Using Sentinel1-A Images","authors":"Shadi Sadat Baghermanesh, S. Jabari, H. McGrath","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554283","url":null,"abstract":"Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery plays a vital role in flood mapping due to the day/night, almost all-weather, and cloud penetration capabilities. Although SAR backscatter intensity can accurately identify flooded areas on bare soil, it is still challenging to classify flooded urban areas due to the complexity of urban structures. Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) and Interferometric SAR (InSAR) can provide us with a robust identification of backscatter patterns in urban areas, including single-bounce and double-bounce backscatters. In this study, we explore the potential of PolSAR and InSAR in urban flood mapping using a Random Forest model. The study area is located in Fredericton, New Brunswick, along the Saint John River, which has a long history of flooding. We examined various combinations of PolSAR and InSAR features, derived from Sentinel-1A images, along with four other features that are well-known to contribute to flooding, to select the best features for the model. The results showed that employing Polarimetric and Interferometric SAR (PolInSAR) features together with land-use/land-cover, altitude, slope, and aspect layers, reached an 88.6% flood classification accuracy in urban areas.","PeriodicalId":315312,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126026175","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":"SAR Remote Sensing of Marine Surface Films","authors":"M. Gade","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553968","url":null,"abstract":"Marine surface films, be they of biogenic or anthropogenic origin, dampen the small-scale waves that are responsible for the radar backscattering, hence they can be seen on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery as areas of reduced image brightness. Examples of different kinds of marine surface films are presented, that were observed on spaceborne SAR imagery since the launch of SEASAT in 1978. In addition, some results from SAR data analyses are used to demonstrate the key aspects of the visibility of marine surface films on spaceborne SAR imagery.","PeriodicalId":315312,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS","volume":"93 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126047812","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}
Ademir Marques, Graciela Racolte, E. Souza, Hiduino Venâncio Domingos, Rafael Kenji Horota, J. G. Motta, D. Zanotta, C. Cazarin, L. Gonzaga, M. Veronez
{"title":"Deep Learning Application for Fracture Segmentation Over Outcrop Images from UAV-Based Digital Photogrammetry","authors":"Ademir Marques, Graciela Racolte, E. Souza, Hiduino Venâncio Domingos, Rafael Kenji Horota, J. G. Motta, D. Zanotta, C. Cazarin, L. Gonzaga, M. Veronez","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9553232","url":null,"abstract":"Fractures affect the intrinsic properties of permeability and porosity of reservoir geobodies, making its network characterization an important task for fluid flow modeling. Direct acquisition of data on reservoirs is labor-intensive and generally produces sparse information. Thus, the study of analogue outcrops with similar characteristics is often carried out by using unmanned aerial vehicle image acquisition and digital photogrammetry. However, the accurate automatic recognition of the fractures network over the outcrop images remains a challenge. Image segmentation methods based on convolution neural networks (CNNs) were successfully applied in medicine, biology, and other areas, however, not yet in geological fracture detection. This work proposes the validation of two popular CNNs - Segnet and Unet - for pixel-to-pixel segmentation targeting fracture detection. Initial results showed acceptable scores of the metrics mean intersection over union (mIoU) and dice intersection (F1) in both CNNs.","PeriodicalId":315312,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126083174","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}