{"title":"Situation-aware GeoVisualization considering applied logic and extensibility: a new architecture and mechanism for intelligent GeoWeb","authors":"Xuelin He, C. Gold","doi":"10.1117/12.873492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873492","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have witnessed the emerging Virtual Globe technology which has been increasingly exhibiting powerful features and capabilities. However, the current technical architecture for geovisualization is still the traditional data- viewer mode, i.e. KML-Geobrowser. Current KML is basically an encoding format for wrapping static snapshots of information frozen at discrete time points, and a geobrowser is virtually a data renderer for geovisualization. In the real world spatial-temporal objects and elements possess specific semantics, applied logic and operational rules, naturally or socially, which need to be considered and to be executed when corresponding data is integrated or visualized in a visual geocontext. However, currently there is no a way to express and execute this kind of applied logic and control rules within the current geobrowsing architecture. This paper proposes a novel architecture by originating a new mechanism, DKML, and implementing a DKML-supporting prototype geobrowser. Embedded programming script within KML files can express applied logic, control conditions, situation-aware analysis utilities and special functionality, to achieve intelligent, controllable and applied logic-conformant geovisualization, and to flexibly extend and customize the DKMLsupporting geobrowser. Benefiting from the mechanism developed in this research, geobrowsers can truly evolve into powerful multi-purpose GeoWeb platforms with promising potential and prospects.","PeriodicalId":417031,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Digital Earth","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127081344","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 vegetation cover change using time series of remote sensing data in Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, China","authors":"Linlin Lu, Huadong Guo, W. Fu","doi":"10.1117/12.873254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873254","url":null,"abstract":"Time series of remote sensing data is widely used in vegetation change monitoring in regions of great environmental changes. In this paper, GIMMS dataset is used to extract temporal and spatial patterns of vegetation cover change in Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, China from 1993 to 2006. The results indicate that the total vegetation is increasing in this region. But the changing trend has spatial variations with some part improving and others deteriorating. The vegetation cover changed due to both human practices and climate changes.","PeriodicalId":417031,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Digital Earth","volume":"7841 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128986735","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":"Forest fire autonomous decision system based on fuzzy logic","authors":"Z. Lei, J. Lu","doi":"10.1117/12.872682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872682","url":null,"abstract":"The proposed system integrates GPS / pseudolite / IMU and thermal camera in order to autonomously process the graphs by identification, extraction, tracking of forest fire or hot spots. The airborne detection platform, the graph-based algorithms and the signal processing frame are analyzed detailed; especially the rules of the decision function are expressed in terms of fuzzy logic, which is an appropriate method to express imprecise knowledge. The membership function and weights of the rules are fixed through a supervised learning process. The perception system in this paper is based on a network of sensorial stations and central stations. The sensorial stations collect data including infrared and visual images and meteorological information. The central stations exchange data to perform distributed analysis. The experiment results show that working procedure of detection system is reasonable and can accurately output the detection alarm and the computation of infrared oscillations.","PeriodicalId":417031,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Digital Earth","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124736741","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}
Bingfeng Yang, Qiao Wang, G. Lv, Yipeng Yang, Changzuo Wang, Li Zhu, Huawei Wan, Xiaomang Liu, Jing Li
{"title":"A method of terrain correction coupling with atmospheric correction","authors":"Bingfeng Yang, Qiao Wang, G. Lv, Yipeng Yang, Changzuo Wang, Li Zhu, Huawei Wan, Xiaomang Liu, Jing Li","doi":"10.1117/12.873156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873156","url":null,"abstract":"Topographic effects and atmospheric effects are two main obstacles to further application of satellite imagery. In this paper, a new method has been developed in order to extract the surface reflectance over mountainous terrain. Three diffuse subcomponents are used to approximate the solar diffuse irradiance: circumsolar, horizon brightening, and isotropic diffuse flux. Topographic adjacency irradiance is calculated using a fit model. A digital elevation model is used to obtain information about surface elevation, slope, and orientation. And the atmospheric parameters such as water vapor content, aerosol optical depth are retrieved from MODIS data. Taking the rugged area in the southern section of Gao-Li-Gong Mountain for test, the result shows that the method has robust topographic and atmospheric correction ability.","PeriodicalId":417031,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Digital Earth","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130362521","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}
Jinghui Fan, Pengfei Tu, Xiaofang Guo, Yi Wang, D. Ge, Guang Liu
{"title":"Monitoring the deformation of a landslide with differential SAR interferometry using corner reflectors","authors":"Jinghui Fan, Pengfei Tu, Xiaofang Guo, Yi Wang, D. Ge, Guang Liu","doi":"10.1117/12.873272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873272","url":null,"abstract":"In order to monitor the surface deformation of Shuping landslide in the Yangtze River Three Gorges area, the method of differential SAR interferometry (DInSAR) using corner reflectors (CR) was applied. 12 CR, including 10 pyramidal corner reflectors (PCR) and 2 asymmetrical cubic corner reflectors (ACCR), were designed, made, and deployed on Shuping landslide. Based on the numerical test and the preliminary analyses of 5 ENVISAT ASAR images, we concluded that: 1) ACCR can provide strong response signal even without the best SAR look angle and is especially fit for the multi-angle applications of DInSAR; 2) given a simple phase model, the least square (LS) method can be used to analyze the CR's differential phase and get the accumulative deformation value.","PeriodicalId":417031,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Digital Earth","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130409513","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 a synchronized cooperative GIS system based on message","authors":"Yaqin Sun, Peijun Du, Liangchen Zhou","doi":"10.1117/12.872683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872683","url":null,"abstract":"In traditional electronic government GIS (E-gov GIS), spatial data evaluation, examination and approval are dealt with by individuals, and the results are shared among collaborators in asynchronous mode. In order to improve the collaborative ability of E-gov GIS, a message-based synchronized cooperative GIS system (MSCGIS) is proposed in this paper. MSCGIS abstracts collaborators' GIS operations and encapsulates them into GIS command messages. And then the GIS command messages are passed and executed among related collaborators. Based on messaging, MSCGIS can realize the GIS synchronized cooperation of group. Some key issues are investigated in detail, such as the design scheme of MSCGIS, the encoding specification of GIS command message based on XML, and the interface and the collaborative process of prototype system. In a word, the construction idea of MSCGIS is sharing the GIS functions through passing collaborators' operations, rather than sharing spatial data among collaborators in traditional modes.","PeriodicalId":417031,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Digital Earth","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130511616","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":"Spatial distribution characteristics of surface sediment grain-size parameters in intertidal flat using hyperspectral remote sensing data","authors":"Xiaodan Zheng, Ying Zhang, Dong Zhang, Huan Li","doi":"10.1117/12.873207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873207","url":null,"abstract":"Among totally 242 spectral bands ranging from 400 to 2500 nm of Hyperion hyperspectral remote sensing data, it was found that two bands with reflectance of 1215 and 2133 nm had relatively good correlation with sediment grain-size parameters of mean diameter(Mz), skewness(Sk), medium diameter(Md) and sorting coefficient(So). And further more, the combination of band reflectance had a significant linear correlation with Mz, So, Sk and Md. Then linear regression models were established and applied to get spatial distribution characteristics of grain-size parameters at intertidal flat near the Sheyang River Estuary in Jiangsu Province. Verification by independent samples showed that the mean relative precision and the mean absolute precision exceeded 75.70% and 72.17%, respectively. Spatial distribution pattern of grain-size parameters indicated that in the direction from north to south that parallel to the coastal line, grain diameters became finer, sorting characteristics became worse and skewness moved from near symmetry to positive deviation. While at the direction from the land phase to the sea that perpendicular to coastal line, grain diameters changed coarser, sorting characteristics became better and skewness moved from positive to near symmetry. These variation trends were in accordance with hydrodynamic environments and sediments sources well.","PeriodicalId":417031,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Digital Earth","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121149400","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 into the method for construction of interactive virtual reality scenes based on Ajax technology: a case study","authors":"Jing Deng, Xin-qi Zheng","doi":"10.1117/12.872843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.872843","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, the development of Digital Earth has made a tremendous impact on all aspects of human social life, and a series of effective work around Digital Earth, which attracted wide attention, have been carried out by people with different background. Meantime, exploitation of the popularized technology is constantly being mature with the development of Google Earth. However, users still have many difficulties in constructing and operating 3D scenes on web, because of the limitation of network speed. This paper aims to provide a more convenient method for the client users to interact with the 3D models, thus to promote popularization of Digital Earth technology and apply it in many aspects of social life. In this research, Ajax was utilized as a newly emerged network technology, since it could provide a good solution for application in developing of virtual reality technology based on Web. This paper analyzed the principles and key technologies of Ajax, explored how Ajax can be used in construction of interactive virtual reality scenes through case study, in order to enhance access speed of virtual scenes on Web page, and increase the authenticity, interactivity and extensibility of virtual scenes. This paper introduced the whole process of virtual model construction and proposed an efficient way to achieve interactive scene. The results showed that the combination of SAI (Scene Access Interface) method and Ajax technology could effectively save network bandwidth and enhance user experience, which laid the foundation for the development of virtual reality technology based on Web and the popularization of Digital Earth technology.","PeriodicalId":417031,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Digital Earth","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124496512","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 experimental study on the feasibility of monitoring petroleum-polluted waters with remote sensing technology","authors":"Miao-fen Huang, Q. Song, Xu-feng Xing, Jun-wu Tang, Wuyi Yu, Yimin Zhang","doi":"10.1117/12.873279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873279","url":null,"abstract":"An experimental study was carried out in order to prove the feasibility of monitoring petroluem-polluted waters with remote sensing technology. The field data was collected in the rivers threatened by petroleum pollution. The measured items mainly included (1) the absorption coefficients of yellow substance, de-pigmented particles and phytoplankton pigments; (2) the backscattering coefficients data of water; (3) water quality parameters; (4) in-situ fine water spectral data. First, absorption spectral features and backscattering coefficients of petroleum-polluted water were analyzed. Secondly, the field spectral data were processed as corresponding bands of ENVISAT/MERIS using the spectral respond function of ENVISAT/MERIS in order to probe into the contribution of the various constituent concentrations in waters on the leaving-water radiation and remote sensing reflectance. The results showed that (1) with the increase of the petroleum pollution concentration, the absorption coefficients of petroleum-polluted water are also increased; (2) the spectra slope of exponential function of petroleum-polluted water is larger than that of petroleum-unpolluted water; (3) Emulsificated oil and decomposed oil in water can be absorbed by suspended particles and influence the scattering properties of the particles. Moreover it will change the spectral model of the inorganic particles backscattering coefficient with petroleum-polluted water; (4) the correlation between petroleum pollution concentration and remote sensing reflectance based on ENVISAT/MERIS is negative. These features of inherent optical parameters and apparent optical parameters obtained from the experiment provide the feasibility for monitoring petroleum-polluted waters with remote sensing technology.","PeriodicalId":417031,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Digital Earth","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125974414","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 study on the urban spatial expansion in Fuzhou, Fujian Province of China, using the SLEUTH model","authors":"Pingli Wu, Senlin Li, Xuewen Wu","doi":"10.1117/12.873343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1117/12.873343","url":null,"abstract":"To better understand the environmental and social problems accompanying the rapid urban growth, the SLEUTH urban growth prototype model was moved from UNIX based into Windows based to simulate the urban growth patterns in the Fuzhou metropolitan area during 1989 to 2003, and then to predict the future growth by 2020. The historic datasets required for the model were derived from the remote sensing images (Landsat TM data in 1989 and 1996, ETM+ data in 2000; and SOPT data in 2003) by using remote sensing and Geographic Information System technologies. Two specific scenarios of different urban growth policies were designed to simulate the spatial patterns of urban growth. The first scenario represents a growth with restriction only on water bodies. The second scenario depicts a controlled growth with additional protections on grass-covered lands and agriculture area. The results show that in contrast to the first scenario, the second scenario well controls the built-up area under the area planned in current urban development policies, and is predicted to lead to more sustainable urban development with less loss of resource lands.","PeriodicalId":417031,"journal":{"name":"International Symposium on Digital Earth","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115739947","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}