{"title":"Analogy based similarity mining for geo-ontology matching","authors":"Ujwala Bharambe, S. Durbha","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947491","url":null,"abstract":"Recently an emerging area that focuses on mining data across domains is Cross Domain Similarity Mining and analogical reasoning for data analysis. Geospatial domain is highly interdisciplinary with methods that incorporate multiple other domains; this research focuses on analogy reasoning using geo-ontology matching. Here a framework is proposed for analogy reasoning. Using an example of road networks, it is explained how analogy can be formulated and transferable and learnable patterns are generated.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"26 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121001370","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}
Yingying Dong, Jinkai Zhang, Zhijie Wang, K. Staenz, C. Coburn, W. Xu, Xiaodong Yang, Jihua Wang
{"title":"Method to speed up LUT-based crop canopy parameter mapping","authors":"Yingying Dong, Jinkai Zhang, Zhijie Wang, K. Staenz, C. Coburn, W. Xu, Xiaodong Yang, Jihua Wang","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946874","url":null,"abstract":"Estimation of canopy biophysical and biochemical parameters using remote sensing data is important for regional crop-growth condition monitoring and yield assessment. The inversion of the radiative transfer model PROSAIL based on the look-up table (LUT) approach is widely used for this purpose, taking remotely sensed reflectance as input. For the LUT-based parameter mapping, the main part is searching for the optimal solution from a large LUT. Due to the computational complexity of the sorting algorithm and size of the LUT for the solution search, a substantial amount of time is normally needed for estimation. In order to speed up the mapping of parameters using remote sensing observations, a faster method is developed for searching the LUT by introducing a binary search algorithm. The results of the experiments based on SPOT-5 imagery show that the proposed method can increase the mapping speed by about 70 times compared to the sorting algorithm.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121127533","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}
Changfeng Jing, Mingyi Du, Peipei Dai, Haiyang Wei, Hui Liu
{"title":"Research on accuracy assessment of urban rainfall spatial interpolation from gauges data","authors":"Changfeng Jing, Mingyi Du, Peipei Dai, Haiyang Wei, Hui Liu","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947138","url":null,"abstract":"Rainfall data is useful in many fields such as urban management, agriculture, and so on. Spatial interpolation is widely used to interpolation continue rainfall data from discrete rainfall gauges. The uncertainty in spatial interpolation is change in different region. Paper focus on urban small area of Beijing city, Xicheng District and analyses uncertainty of spatial interpolation from four aspects: rainfall gauge number, density, position, spatial interpolation methods. RMSE and cross-validation is adopted to evaluate the accuracy of interpolation and the lowest RMSE is taken as optimal. The results suggest that more gauges can get a good performance with low error compared to little stations; and dense gauges network gets high accuracy than sparse station. Ordinary kriging is simple than other method and has a good estimation (except co-kriging) in small area spatial interpolation. Co-kriging has a high accuracy in interpolation but complex in computation and must be considering in the other variables.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121216543","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":"Implementation of a new automatic stratification method using geospatial cropland data layers in NASS area frame construction","authors":"C. Boryan, Zhengwei Yang","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946882","url":null,"abstract":"A new automatic stratification method utilizing USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) geospatial Cropland Data Layers (CDLs) was recently implemented in NASS operations. Recent research findings indicated that using the CDL stratification method rather than visual interpretation of satellite imagery and aerial photography (traditional method) to define percent cultivation of land areas resulted in Area Sampling Frames (ASF) constructed with improved accuracy, objectivity and efficiency at reduced cost [3]. This paper describes an operational ASF construction process that integrates the automated CDL stratification results with traditional editing/review procedures, a hybrid approach. New 2013/2014 ASFs for South Dakota and Oklahoma were successfully built using the new operational process and illustrated significant improvements in frame accuracy, operational efficiency, and cost.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121251192","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 assurance plan for China collection 2.0 aerosol datasets","authors":"L. She, Yong Xue, J. Guang, Xingwei He, Chi Li","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947404","url":null,"abstract":"The inversion of atmospheric aerosol optical depth (AOD) using satellite data has always been a challenge topic in atmospheric research. In order to solve the aerosol retrieval problem over bright land surface, the Synergetic Retrieval of Aerosol Properties (SRAP) algorithm has been developed based on the synergetic using of the MODIS data of TERRA and AQUA satellites [1, 2]. In this paper we describe, in details, the quality assessment or quality assurance (QA) plan for AOD products derived using the SRAP algorithm. The pixel-based QA plan is to give a QA flag to every step of the process in the AOD retrieval. The quality assessment procedures include three common aspects: 1) input data resource flags, 2) retrieval processing flags, 3) product quality flags [3]. Besides, all AOD products are assigned a QA `confidence' flag (QAC) that represents the aggregation of all the individual QA flags. This QAC value ranges from 3 to 0, with QA = 3 indicating the retrievals of highest confidence and QA = 2/QA = 1 progressively lower confidence [4], and 0 means `bad' quality. These QA (QAC) flags indicate how the particular retrieval process should be considered. It is also used as a filter for expected quantitative value of the retrieval, or to provide weighting for aggregating/averaging computations [5]. All of the QA flags are stored as a \"bit flag\" scientific dataset array in which QA flags of each step are stored in particular bit positions.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127095697","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":"Joint SAR image compression and coherent change detection","authors":"Miriam Cha, Myra Nam, K. Geyer","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946343","url":null,"abstract":"Fine details revealed by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) coherent change detection (CCD), such as foot prints, require SAR imagery with both high resolution and precision. These large data requirements are at odds with the low bandwidths often available for SAR change detection systems such as those that utilize small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Here we investigate the interplay between SAR data compression and SAR CCD performance. As the data are compressed further, the ability to detect changes decreases. However, there is redundant information contained in SAR imagery that is not necessary for change detection, and removing it makes SAR compression possible. In this paper, we introduce a new model-based compression method that leverages the known distribution of SAR data for a compact storage, while improving change detection performance. We show experimentally that the CCD using the decompressed SAR pair after our proposed method not only yields significant improvement in change detection over the CCD using the decompressed SAR after block adaptive quantization (BAQ) method, but also over the CCD using the original SAR data. Experimental results are presented to show the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithm for SAR compression and change detection.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"271 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127376873","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":"Research of methane emissions of the wetlands with backscattering properties","authors":"Longfei Tan, Yan Chen, L. Tong, Mingquan Jia","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947398","url":null,"abstract":"Methane is an important greenhouse gas (GHG) in the atmosphere. Conventional methods with Optical and infrared technology still have some questioned in large-area and time. With its advantage of acquiring geo-information in timely, speedy, all-day and all-weather over large areas, microwave remote sensing is one powerful approach in monitoring methane emissions to conventional methods. Ground-based scatterometer was employed to multi-wave and multi-polarization measurement to obtain the microwave scattering coefficients. The methane emission was analyzed by the microwave scattering coefficients and the parameters of the vegetation in observation area. Besides, RADARSAT-2 images are ordered to offer data support to the observation of methane emission from large-sized wetlands. Additionally, the comparison of this experiment results and former experiment results of methane emission from paddy land was done. The distinction of the two significant methane emission sources is analyzed in the paper.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125873360","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}
D. Dahanayaka, H. Tonooka, M. Wijeyaratne, A. Minato, S. Ozawa
{"title":"Assessing the potential of satellite and ground spectral data for Chlorophyll-a monitoring in Lake Kasumigaura, Japan","authors":"D. Dahanayaka, H. Tonooka, M. Wijeyaratne, A. Minato, S. Ozawa","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947198","url":null,"abstract":"The suitability of a handheld spectrometer and ASTER satellite data for monitoring Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) in Lake Kasumigaura, Japan was tested in July 2010 to December 2013. ASTER based Chl-a retrieval algorithms were developed support with in-situ Chl-a, MODIS OC3 Chl-a and Kakemaoki and Koshin automated water quality monitoring stations Chl-a. ASTER VNIR band ratio were regressively analyzed with the corrected MODIS Chl-a and automated station values obtained for each ASTER date on a day by day basis. The regression equation of the ASTER band ratio (B1/B2), with highest correlation was used to generate high-resolution Chl-a distribution maps. Significant correlation between the ratio of the reflectance peak at 705 nm and the Chl-a absorption at 678 nm and the in-situ Chl-a content was observed and these reflectance ratios were used to establish spectrometric Chl-a estimation algorithms. Proposed algorithms can be successfully adopted to determine localized environmental effects in the Lake.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126099196","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 novel concept of plane grid resolution for high-resolution SAR imaging systems","authors":"Xin Lin, Tingting Liu, Kaizhi Wang, Xingzhao Liu","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946432","url":null,"abstract":"Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an active microwave sensor which is able to produce high-resolution images with day and night capability. Traditionally, the image quality assessment of the SAR system is described by the response function of an isolated point target. However, some man-made targets which are placed together can not be distinguished clearly. As the point target has the characteristic of the isotropic scattering, the retrieval capability for target structure details and contours by using the point target assessment method cannot be assessed accurately in a practical scene. In this paper, a new image quality assessment method (especially for plane targets) is proposed to solve this problem. The definitions of the plane grid and the plane grid resolution are given to support. After giving the scene construction of the Test Field used for measuring the plane grid resolution (PGR), a corresponding algorithm is also proposed. Experiment results show that the proposed assessment method describes the SAR image quality for man-made targets more accurate than the traditional assessment method in a practical scene.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126157914","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":"Estimating of the total atmospheric precipitable water vapor amount from the Chinese new generation polar orbit FengYun meteorological satellite (FY-3) data","authors":"Shuo Peng, B. Tang, Hua Wu, R. Tang, Z. Li","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947115","url":null,"abstract":"The total atmospheric precipitable water vapor amount (TWV) is a key variable for the study of the Earth's climate. This paper develops an algorithm to estimate the TWV over clear skies from the Medium Resolution Spectral Imager (MERSI) data in the near-IR channels. The MODTRAN 4 code is used to simulate the top of the atmospheric radiances for the MERSI channels. The results show that the proposed algorithm is suitable to estimate TWV form the absorbing channel centered at 0.940 μm and the atmospheric window channels centered at 0.865 μm and centered at 1.030 μm by the radiances over the clear pixels, with relative differences in the range of 10%-15%.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123245194","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}