{"title":"An Optimization Algorithm of Moving Targets Refocusing Via Parameter Estimation Dependence of Maximum Sharpness Principle After BP Integral","authors":"Xuyao Tong, M. Xing, Guangcai Sun","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324306","url":null,"abstract":"Refocusing moving targets in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images is a challenging task Because of the unknown motion parameters of the targets. Thus, exact parameter estimation is required in the moving targets reconstructed. In order to solve the question, this paper proposed an optimization algorithm of moving targets refocusing via parameter estimation dependence of maximum sharpness principle after back projection (BP) integral. This method consists of three groups: Firstly, moving targets is detected and extracted from SAR images dependence of BP algorithm. Then, the extra phase brought by the motion parameters are obtained by driving exact function of target's 2-D wavenumber spectrum. Finally, based on the maximum sharpness principle, the motion parameters are optimized by iteratively compensating the extra phase. Moving targets can be focused well by removing the extra phase via the estimated parameters. Both simulation data and real data processing is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123766560","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}
Xiuzhen Han, F. Weng, Yang Han, He Huang, Shengqi Li
{"title":"Vegetation Indices Derived from FengYun-3D MERSI-II Data","authors":"Xiuzhen Han, F. Weng, Yang Han, He Huang, Shengqi Li","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324123","url":null,"abstract":"The MEdium Resolution Spectral Imager-II (MERSI-II) onboard FY-3D satellite is used to retrieve surface vegetation parameters. MERSI TOA reflectances are corrected to surface reflectance and then used to compute normalized differential vegetation index (NDVI) and enhanced vegetation index (EVI) at the canopy levels. MERSI-II VI products are also compared with MODIS data and show a good consistency.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125265187","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":"Strong Potential for the Detection of Refrozen Ice Layers in Greenland's Firn by Airborne Radar Sounding","authors":"R. Culberg, D. Schroeder","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324268","url":null,"abstract":"The formation of impermeable ice layers within Greenland's firn can significantly increase surface meltwater runoff by capping percolation, thus increasing the continent's immediate contributions to sea level rise. Detection of these layers by airborne radar sounding would permit large scale assessment of their spatial coverage and temporal evolution. We present an electromagnetic forward model for radar scattering in dry firn, as well as a statistical model of firn density profiles, which together allow us to robustly simulate airborne radar sounding measurements in the ice sheet near-surface. We use these models to simulate the response of the University of Kansas Accumulation Radar to refrozen ice layers thinner than the radar vertical resolution. Our results suggest that continuous ice layers are detectable as anomalously bright reflections within the firn, so long as the background density does not exceed 0.72 g/cm3. We find that approximately 81% of single ice layers thicker than 2 cm are detectable, as well as over 90% of all multi-layer configurations. This suggests that the Accumulation Radar is an effective tool for studying the spatial and temporal coverage of thin ice layers in Greenland's firn, but such a survey would likely still underestimate the total areal extent.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125320459","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}
Rongfang Wang, Fan Ding, Jiawei Chen, L. Jiao, Liang Wang
{"title":"A Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network for Bitemporal Image Change Detection","authors":"Rongfang Wang, Fan Ding, Jiawei Chen, L. Jiao, Liang Wang","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323964","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323964","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, many convolution neural networks have been successfully employed in bitemporal SAR image change detection. However, most of those networks are too heavy where large memory are necessary for storage and calculation. To reduce the computational and spatial complexity and facilitate the change detection on edge devices, in this paper, we propose a lightweight neural network for bitemporal SAR image change detection. In the proposed network, we replace the regular convolutional layers with bottlenecks, which will not increase the number of channels. Furthermore, we employ dilated convolutional kernels with a few non-zero entries which reduces the FLOPs in convlutional operators. Comparing with traditional neural network, our lightweight neural network will be faster, less FLOPs and parameters. We verify our lightweight neural network on two sets of bitemporal SAR images. The experimental results show that the proposed network can obtain the comparable performance with those heavy-weight neural network.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125355580","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}
Qianqian Zhang, Zheng-Shu Zhou, P. Caccetta, J. Simons, Li Li
{"title":"Sentinel-1 Imagery Incorporating Machine Learning for Dryland Salinity Monitoring: A Case Study in Esperance, Western Australia","authors":"Qianqian Zhang, Zheng-Shu Zhou, P. Caccetta, J. Simons, Li Li","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323426","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the lack of a suitable theoretical model for simulating radar backscatter of soil based on salt content, we investigated a new method to exploit Sentinel-1 radar backscatters and polarimetric decomposition information for dryland soil salinity monitoring. Soil electrical conductivity (EC) was estimated using Sentinel-1 SAR imagery and field survey data combined with five machine learning models in Esperance, located in the southwest of Western Australia (SWWA). The performance of the five machine learning models was assessed and compared using the root-mean-square error (RMSE), the mean absolute error (MAE), and the correlation coefficient ($r$). The results revealed that the Random Forest Regression model (RFR) yielded the highest prediction performance ($text{RMSE}=2.89 S/m, text{MAE}=1.90 S/m$, and $mathrm{r}=0.81$) and outperformed the other models. It can be concluded that the intensity images of VV and VH polarization of SAR imagery have the potential to predict EC of soils in SWWA.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125386693","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}
S. Nag, M. Moghaddam, Daniel Selva, J. Frank, V. Ravindra, R. Levinson, Amir Azemati, Alan Aguilar, Alan S. Li, R. Akbar
{"title":"D-SHIELD: DISTRIBUTED SPACECRAFT WITH HEURISTIC INTELLIGENCE TO ENABLE LOGISTICAL DECISIONS","authors":"S. Nag, M. Moghaddam, Daniel Selva, J. Frank, V. Ravindra, R. Levinson, Amir Azemati, Alan Aguilar, Alan S. Li, R. Akbar","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323248","url":null,"abstract":"D-SHIELD is a suite of scalable software tools that helps schedule payload operations of a large constellation, with multiple payloads per and across spacecraft, such that the collection of observational data and their downlink, constrained by the constellation constraints (orbital mechanics), resources (e.g., power) and subsystems (e.g., attitude control), results in maximum science value for a selected use case. Constellation topology, spacecraft and ground network characteristics can be imported from design tools or existing constellations and can serve as elements of an operations design tool. D-SHIELD will include a science simulator to inform the scheduler of the predictive value of observations or operational decisions. Autonomous, realtime re-scheduling based on past observations needs improved data assimilation methods within the simulator.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125552664","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-Spectral Smooth Graph Convolutional Network for Multispectral Point Cloud Classification","authors":"Qingwang Wang, Xiangrong Zhang, Yanfeng Gu","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324584","url":null,"abstract":"Multispectral point cloud, as a new type of data containing both spectrum and spatial geometry, opens the door to three-dimensional (3D) land cover classification at a finer scale. In this paper, we model the multispectral point cloud as a spatial-spectral graph and propose a smooth graph convolutional network for multispectral point cloud classification, abbreviated 3SGCN. We construct the spectral graph and spatial graph respectively to mine patterns in spectral and spatial geometric domains. Then, the multispectral point cloud graph is generated by combining the spatial and spectral graphs. For remote sensing scene classification tasks, it is usually desirable to make the classification map relatively smooth and avoid salt and pepper noise. Heat operator is introduced to enhance the low- frequency filters and enforce the smoothness in the graph signal. Further, a graph -based smoothness prior is deployed in our loss function. Experiments are conducted on real multispectral point cloud. The experimental results demonstrate that 3 SGCN can achieve significant improvements in comparison with several state-of-the art algori thms.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125672002","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}
Wei Hu, Ben Alexander, Wendell Cathcart, Atsushi Hu, Varun Nair, Lin Zuo, Jordan M. Malof, L. Collins, Kyle Bradbury
{"title":"Mapping Electric Transmission Line Infrastructure from Aerial Imagery with Deep Learning","authors":"Wei Hu, Ben Alexander, Wendell Cathcart, Atsushi Hu, Varun Nair, Lin Zuo, Jordan M. Malof, L. Collins, Kyle Bradbury","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323851","url":null,"abstract":"Access to electricity positively correlates with many beneficial socioeconomic outcomes in the developing world including improvements in education, health, and poverty. Efficient planning for electricity access requires information on the location of existing electric transmission and distribution infrastructure; however, the data on existing infrastructure is often unavailable or expensive. We propose a deep learning based method to automatically detect electric transmission infrastructure from aerial imagery and quantify those results with traditional object detection performance metrics. In addition, we explore two challenges to applying these techniques at scale: (1) how models trained on particular geographies generalize to other locations and (2) how the spatial resolution of imagery impacts infrastructure detection accuracy. Our approach results in object detection performance with an F1 score of 0.53 (0.47 precision and 0.60 recall). Using training data that includes more diverse geographies improves performance across the 4 geographies that we examined. Image resolution significantly impacts object detection performance and decreases precipitously as the image resolution decreases.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125682452","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}
I. Pfeil, F. Reuß, M. Vreugdenhil, C. Navacchi, W. Wagner
{"title":"Classification of Wheat and Barley Fields Using Sentinel-1 Backscatter","authors":"I. Pfeil, F. Reuß, M. Vreugdenhil, C. Navacchi, W. Wagner","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323560","url":null,"abstract":"The knowledge of the distribution of crop types is of great importance to numerous applications at regional to global scales. Different techniques, including microwave remote sensing methods, have been developed for automatized, accurate crop mapping, however, the discrimination of crops with similar morphology and phenology remains a challenge. In this study, we investigate how to distinguish wheat and barley fields by applying statistical methods and a long-short term memory network to backscatter observed by the C-band SAR instrument onboard the Sentinel-1 satellite.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126641731","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. Zeng, Xiaoguang Xu, Jun Wang, Yi Wang, Xi Chen, Zhen Lu, O. Torres, J. Reid, S. Miller
{"title":"Detecting Layer Height of Smoke and Dust Aerosols Over Vegetated Land and Water Surfaces via Oxygen Absorption Bands","authors":"J. Zeng, Xiaoguang Xu, Jun Wang, Yi Wang, Xi Chen, Zhen Lu, O. Torres, J. Reid, S. Miller","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323130","url":null,"abstract":"We present an algorithm for retrieving aerosol layer height (ALH) and aerosol optical depth (AOD) for smoke and dust over vegetated land and water surfaces from measurements of the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) onboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). Our algorithm uses EPIC atmospheric window bands to determine AOD and then takes advantage of oxygen A and B bands to derive ALH. We applied this algorithm on several dust and smoke events. Validation shows our results are of high accuracy.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126730255","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}