Zhihai Gao, Bin Sun, G. Barrio, Xiaosong Li, Hongyan Wang, L. Bai, Bengyu Wang, Wangfei Zhang
{"title":"Land degradation assessment by applying relative rue in Inner Mongolia, China, 2001–2010","authors":"Zhihai Gao, Bin Sun, G. Barrio, Xiaosong Li, Hongyan Wang, L. Bai, Bengyu Wang, Wangfei Zhang","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946709","url":null,"abstract":"Land degradation in Inner Mongolia, China is much severe. Remote sensing application on land degradation assessment can provide scientific basis for land degradation prevention in the study area. In this paper, land degradation was assessed by applying two improved relative Rain Use Efficiency (RUE) indicators based on time series MODIS NDVI data and high-resolution meteorological data from 2001 to 2010. The results show that 76.74% land of the whole study area with good or unusually good condition, it indicates that the most areas have normal or good vegetation production capacity. The unusually degraded and degraded lands account for 11.94% of the study area, especially they are less degraded lands distributing in Beijing and Tianjin sandstorm source region within the Inner Mongolia, it indicates that some ecological engineering projects implemented in this area have achieved significantly for restoration of degraded ecosystems in recent 10 years.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"125 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":"114594039","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":"Retrieval of 2-D tropospheric water vapour fields by using a constellation of co-rotating LEO satellites","authors":"A. Lapini, F. Cuccoli, F. Argenti, L. Facheris","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947617","url":null,"abstract":"The normalised differential spectral attenuation (NDSA) approach has been recently introduced to retrieve integrated water vapour (IWV) content information from attenuation measurements over microwave links between two low earth orbit (LEO) satellites. In the original formulation, two counter-rotating satellites were considered in order to achieve vertical profiles of water vapour. In this paper, an extension of the method to the case of a constellation of co-rotating LEO satellites is proposed. Simulation results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach to retrieve 2-D maps of the atmospheric water vapour content from IWV measurements.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"29 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":"121988864","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":"Pan-sharpening: Use of difference of Gaussians","authors":"Kishor P. Upla, M. Joshi, P. Gajjar","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947599","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a fast method for pan-sharpening based on difference of Gaussians (DoGs). The Panchromatic (Pan) and the multi-spectral (MS) images are used to obtain a pan-sharpened image having both high spectral and spatial resolutions. The method is based on two level DoG on the Pan image. First, the Pan image is convolved with Gaussian kernel to obtain a blurred version and the high frequency details are extracted as the first level DoGs by subtracting the blurred image from the original. In order to get the second level DoG, same steps are repeated on the blurred Pan image. The extracted details at both DoGs are added to MS image to obtain the final pan-sharpened image. Experiments have been conducted with different values of standard deviation of Gaussian blur with images captured from different satellite sensors such as Ikonos-2, Quickbird and Worlview-2. A relatively new quality measure with no reference (QNR) index along with the other traditional measures are evaluated to check the efficacy of the proposed algorithm. The subjective and the quantitative assessment show that the proposed technique performs better, fast and less complex when compared to recently proposed state of the art techniques.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"5 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":"122000550","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}
Jiancheng Shi, Xiaolong Dong, T. Zhao, Jinyang Du, Lingmei Jiang, Yang Du, Hao Liu, Zhenzhan Wang, Dabin Ji, C. Xiong
{"title":"WCOM: The science scenario and objectives of a global water cycle observation mission","authors":"Jiancheng Shi, Xiaolong Dong, T. Zhao, Jinyang Du, Lingmei Jiang, Yang Du, Hao Liu, Zhenzhan Wang, Dabin Ji, C. Xiong","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947273","url":null,"abstract":"Earth observation satellites play a critical role in providing information for understanding the global water cycle, which dominates the Earth-climate system. However, limitations in observations will restrict our current ability to reduce the uncertainties in the information used to make decisions regarding to water use and management. Under the support of “Strategic Priority Research Program for Space Sciences” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a new satellite concept of global Water Cycle Observation Mission (WCOM) is proposed, aiming to provide higher accuracy and consistent measurements of key elements of water cycle from space, including soil moisture, ocean salinity, freeze-thaw, snow water equivalent and etc. The expected more consistent and accurate datasets would be used to refine existing long-time series of satellite measurements, to constrain hydrological model projections and to detect the trends necessary for global change studies.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"56 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":"122165174","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. Pelich, N. Longépé, G. Mercier, G. Hajduch, R. Garello
{"title":"Ship detection in SAR medium resolution imagery for maritime surveillance: Algorithm validation using AIS data","authors":"R. Pelich, N. Longépé, G. Mercier, G. Hajduch, R. Garello","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947284","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper paper we address performances of ship detection algorithms in medium resolution SAR imagery. An automatic validation approach based on coastal AIS data allows to evaluate detectors efficiency. Detection capabilities remain sensitive to dataset features such as SAR imaging characteristics, meteorological conditions or vessel size. The influence of this different key parameters is fully assessed in this study. This analysis is valuable for operational services, allowing to select the most appropriate type of data for different applications in maritime surveillance.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"24 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":"116736835","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}
N. Pierdicca, L. Pulvirenti, M. Chini, G. Boni, Giuseppe Squicciarino, L. Candela
{"title":"Flood mapping by SAR: Possible approaches to mitigate errors due to ambiguous radar signatures","authors":"N. Pierdicca, L. Pulvirenti, M. Chini, G. Boni, Giuseppe Squicciarino, L. Candela","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947324","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947324","url":null,"abstract":"The latest generation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems allows providing emergency managers with near real time flood maps characterized by a very high spatial resolution. Near real time flood detection algorithms generally search for regions of low backscatter, thus assuming that floodwater appears dark in a SAR image. It is well known that this assumption is not always valid. For instance, in urban areas, the double bounce backscattering involving ground and vertical walls produce high radar return that can be further increased by the presence of the highly reflective floodwater. In addition, even mapping bare or scarcely vegetated inundated terrains, or crops totally submerged by water can turn out to be a difficult task. In fact, in the presence of significant wind that roughens the water surface, floodwater can appear bright in SAR images. This paper proposes possible strategies to cope with flood mapping using SAR data in urban areas and in the presence of significant wind. In particular, the use of the interferometric coherence for floodwater detection in urban areas and the use of an electromagnetic model able to simulate the radar return from shallow water as function of the wind field are proposed.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"34 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":"116812079","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}
Tatsumi Uezato, R. Murphy, A. Melkumyan, A. Chlingaryan, S. Schneider
{"title":"Multiple endmember spectral unmixing within a multi-task framework","authors":"Tatsumi Uezato, R. Murphy, A. Melkumyan, A. Chlingaryan, S. Schneider","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947225","url":null,"abstract":"A novel spectral unmixing technique is presented which addresses the problem of spectral variability within each endmember class and determines endmember types present in each pixel. The proposed unmixing method is a multi-task framework, based on Multi-task Gaussian Process (MTGP). The Unmixing within a MTGP framework (UMTGP) is different to conventional unmixing approaches in that it assumes that spectral variation exists within each endmember class. Using synthetic and real data, the fractional abundances estimated by the UMTGP are compared with conventional methods such as Fully Constrained Least Squares (FCLS) and Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis (MESMA). Hyperspectral data acquired from field-based platforms are used for evaluation because intra-class spectral variability is commonly large in these datasets. The results show that the UMTGP outperforms FCLS in terms of estimating fractional abundance and provides better estimates than MESMA, especially when a small number of endmember spectra for each class are available.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"46 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":"116821227","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. Clewley, J. Whitcomb, M. Moghaddam, K. McDonald, P. Bunting
{"title":"Decadal changes in the type and extent of Wetlands in Alaska using L-band SAR data — A preliminary analysis","authors":"D. Clewley, J. Whitcomb, M. Moghaddam, K. McDonald, P. Bunting","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947323","url":null,"abstract":"Northern peatlands are estimated to hold about 30 % of the total global pool of soil carbon or 13 % of the total terrestrial carbon in the biosphere [1]. The warmer, drier conditions being experienced throughout the Arctic appear to be accelerating both aerobic and anaerobic decomposition of northern peatland soils, thereby increasing emissions of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) [2]. If continued, this trend could cause northern peatlands to become major sources of atmospheric carbon, with existing models predicting large increases in CH4 emissions as CO2 levels continue to rise [3]. To better understand sources, sinks, and net fluxes of atmospheric CO2 and CH4 validated high-resolution maps of the extent and distribution of northern wetlands are needed [4].","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"47 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":"117003709","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":"Thirsty thermal infrared spatial system","authors":"Philippe Crébassol, J. Lagouarde, S. Hook","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947113","url":null,"abstract":"THIRSTY is a joint mission concept study between CNES and NASA that is nearing the end of phase 0 studies. During phase 0 the group has identified the key science objectives the mission will address and begun estimating the feasibility of the mission. As its name implies, this mission concept is devoted to remotely sensing our planet in the thermal infrared (TIR) part of the electromagnetic spectrum, at a high spatial scale (resolution of a few tens of meters) coupled with a high temporal scale (revisit of less than 3 days).","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":"117241105","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}
F. Demontoux, F. Jonard, S. Bircher, S. Razafindratsima, M. Schwank, J. Wigneron, Y. Kerr
{"title":"Integrated approach for effective permittivity estimation of multi-layered soils at L-Band","authors":"F. Demontoux, F. Jonard, S. Bircher, S. Razafindratsima, M. Schwank, J. Wigneron, Y. Kerr","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947162","url":null,"abstract":"Microwave remote sensing instruments are an adequate way to provide soil moisture information at large scale. Microwave remote sensing data are linked to the electromagnetic properties of soil. In that context, the objective of this study is to develop an integrated approach to estimate effective electromagnetic properties of soils layers at different scale using ground-penetrating radar (GPR), L-band radiometer, dielectric laboratory measurements, modelling approaches and in situ measurements of essential state variables.","PeriodicalId":385645,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"2 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":"117268632","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}