Jilu Li, B. Camps-Raga, F. Rodríguez‐Morales, D. Gomez-Garcia, J. Paden, C. Leuschen
{"title":"Snow Grain Size Estimates from Airborne Ka-Band Radar Measurements","authors":"Jilu Li, B. Camps-Raga, F. Rodríguez‐Morales, D. Gomez-Garcia, J. Paden, C. Leuschen","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324062","url":null,"abstract":"We designed a Ka-band prototype radar altimeter operated at a center frequency of 35 GHz with a 6 GHz bandwidth. The instrument was intended for fine-resolution verification and validation of space borne altimetry datasets. We installed it onboard the NASA C-130 aircraft in conjunction with two other wideband microwave instruments and collected airborne altimetry data over Greenland land ice and arctic sea ice during the 2015 NASA Operation IceBridge arctic campaign. Apart from the major application of verification and calibration of satellite-based measurements, data from this instrument can be used to derive snow grain size because of the dominant effect of volume scattering in radar signatures. In this paper, we briefly describe the system design and the installation on the NASA C-130, discuss the observed penetration depths of Ka-band signals into the snowpack, present sample results of optical-equivalent snow grain size estimates from radar measurements over the dry snow zone using a simplified snowpack model. We show that the observed penetration depths and the snow grain size estimates from the airborne Ka-band radar retrievals agree well with the model and in-situ snow-pit measurements.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"2014 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":"128237000","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":"Synergic Use of SAR And Optical Data for Estimation of Soil Moisture in Vegetative Region","authors":"Nidhi Verma, P. Mishra, N. Purohit","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323753","url":null,"abstract":"Measuring the spatial distribution of soil moisture in the vegetative area is important for agricultural research and applications. In this paper, we have proposed the soil moisture estimation method in the vegetative area which uses minimum apriori information and low cost in terms of manpower and real-time field survey. For the development of this method, we have used VV backscattering from Sentinel-1 SAR and red band from Sentinel-2 optical images which are freely available worldwide. Along with this, we have also used anisotropy (A) as an intermediate parameter for the estimation of dielectric constant (ε) in the vegetative area. The estimated values of dielectric constant show good correlation with dielectric constant (ε') inverted using ground soil moisture samples. At last, estimated values of dielectric constant (ε) using the proposed method is successfully used for the estimation of surface soil moisture in the vegetative area.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"113 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":"128569504","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":"GNSS Reflectometry from Smartphones: Testing Performance of In-Built Antennas and GNSS Chips","authors":"M. Kurum, A. Gürbüz, M. Farhad","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324124","url":null,"abstract":"Raw Global Navigation Satellites Systems (GNSS) data have been directly accessible from mass-market devices running the Android Nougat (or newer) operating system since late 2016. The availability of GNSS raw data made possible to investigate feasibility of using in-built GNSS chipsets within smartphone devices as passive radar receivers for the purpose of land remote sensing. In this study, we integrate smart-phones into small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to collect reflected GNSS raw data for the purpose of mapping top 5-cm soil moisture. The reflected GNSS signals collected by the smartphones show high correlation with spatial features on the ground such as ponds, crops, and small creeks. To determine the quality of smartphone in-built antenna and chipset, we conducted several experiments. The results show that (1) the radiation pattern of smartphone's GNSS antenna are observed to be highly irregular, but time-invariant, and (2) internal GNSS chip produces observables of sufficient quality when the GNSS smartphone reflected signals are compared with a high quality custom-built dual channel receiver. This paper summarizes the experimental findings and challenges that need to be resolved in order to use the GNSS-Reflectometry (GNSS-R) technique via ubiquitous smartphones from small UASs.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"26 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":"128573303","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":"Radiometric Issues in Biomass Tomographic Imaging","authors":"M. M. d'Alessandro, S. Tebaldini","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323448","url":null,"abstract":"SAR tomography is a powerful tool for analyzing forested environments. ESA seventh Earth Explorer BIOMASS will be the first spaceborne tomographic mission at P-band returning three dimensional reconstruction of the tropical vegetation. The backscattered intensity coming from specific depths inside the forest layer can be effectively related to biophysical parameters as tree height or biomass amount. Biomass estimates are very sensitive to power fluctuations in the measurements that, therefore, have to be minimized. In this work, the tomographic power fluctuations induced by irregular acquisitions and missing images are addressed. Compensation strategies are presented and their effectiveness is demonstrated using real data gathered on tropical forests.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"58 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":"128685611","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":"Railroad Valley Radiometric Calibration Test Site (RadCaTS) as Part of a Global Radiometric Calibration Network (RadCalNet)","authors":"J. Czapla-Myers, K. Thome, B. Wenny, N. Anderson","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323665","url":null,"abstract":"The Radiometric Calibration Network (RadCalNet) is a coordinated multinational effort to provide in situ data that are suitable for the radiometric calibration and validation of Earth observation sensors that operate in the visible to shortwave infrared solar reflective spectral region (400 nm to 1000 nm). The main goals of RadCalNet are to provide top-of-atmosphere reflectance data to the scientific community, standardize data collection protocols for automated test sites, and to document the SI-traceable uncertainty budgets for each automated test site, of which there are currently four. The data available from RadCalNet are suitable for the calibration and validation of spaceborne imaging spectrometers. The work presented here provides a description of RadCalNet as well as a sample of the current results from the Radiometric Calibration Test Site (RadCaTS), which is located at Railroad Valley, Nevada, USA. Selected sensors for comparison include Terra and Aqua MODIS, SNPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS, and Sentinel-3A and −3B OLCI.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"100 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":"128951488","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 Interferometric W-BAND Radar for Large Structures Monitoring","authors":"M. Pieraccini, L. Miccinesi, F. Morini","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324004","url":null,"abstract":"Interferometric radars are widely used for static and dynamic displacement monitoring of large structures as bridges, culverts, wind turbine towers, chimneys, masonry towers, stays cables, buildings, and monuments. The most of these radars operates in Ku-band (17 GHz). Nevertheless, a higher operative frequency could allow to design smaller and lighter equipment. The aim of this paper is to verify if a commercial 77 GHz radar designed for automotive applications could be used as interferometric radar for static and dynamic monitoring of large structures. The preliminary results obtained in controlled conditions are very promising.","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":"129018861","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}
Jia Su, Haojiang Li, Mingliang Tao, Yifei Fan, Ling Wang, H. Tao
{"title":"Wideband Interference Suppression for SAR by Time-Frequency-Pulse Joint Domain Processing","authors":"Jia Su, Haojiang Li, Mingliang Tao, Yifei Fan, Ling Wang, H. Tao","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323259","url":null,"abstract":"Wide-band interference (WBI) is a critical issue for synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which may severely affect the imaging quality of SAR systems. To suppress WBI effectively, a novel interference suppression algorithm based on robust principal component analysis (RPCA) in time-frequency-pulse (TF-P) domain is proposed. For SAR echoes in TF-P domain, there are two useful properties: 1) The TF characteristic of useful signal in adjacent pulse are similar, indicating that useful signal has low-rank property; 2) Due to its variation of position and sparsely distrusted in TF-P domain, WBI has sparse characteristic. According to these properties, RPCA method is applied to decompose the TF-P matrix into a low-rank matrix (i.e. useful signal) and a sparse matrix (i.e. WBI). Finally, the WBIs can be reconstructed and subtracted from the echoes to realize the interference suppression. The experimental results of simulated data demonstrate that the proposed algorithm not only can suppress interference effectively, but also preserve the useful information as much as possible.","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":"129142092","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}
Fan Li, Yuxia Li, Cunjie Zhang, Yuan Cheng, Yuzhen Li, Lei He
{"title":"A Fuel Moisture Content Monitoring Methodology Based on Optical Remote Sensing","authors":"Fan Li, Yuxia Li, Cunjie Zhang, Yuan Cheng, Yuzhen Li, Lei He","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323353","url":null,"abstract":"Quickly and accurately obtaining fuel moisture content information is of great significance for diagnosing vegetation growth, improving agricultural irrigation efficiency, guiding agricultural production, monitoring the drought conditions of natural communities, and forecasting forest fires. Used the measured fuel moisture content in the southern California sample points and various vegetation indices extracted from MODIS remote sensing satellite images as the dataset for the fuel moisture content retrieving model. In this study, three machine learning methods‐‐extreme learning machine (ELM), gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) were used for the fuel moisture content retrieving model. The results show that these three methods can achieve better accuracy than the traditional machine learning method support vector machine (SVM). The experimental results show that the XGBoost is able to achieve an acceptable accuracy, the average root mean squared error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE) and coefficient of correlation (R) were 0.1552, 0.1243, and 0.7423 respectively, which is much better than the other models.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"30 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":"129327217","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}
Qi Wan, Linbo Luo, Jun Chen, Yong Wang, Donghai Guo
{"title":"Drone Image Stitching Using Local Least Square Alignment","authors":"Qi Wan, Linbo Luo, Jun Chen, Yong Wang, Donghai Guo","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323873","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a strategy for drone image stitching using local least square alignment, which aims to effectively stitch multiple overlapping drone images into a natural panoramic image. Existing traditional methods using simple homography cannot handle the situation that the input drone images have parallax effect, and the mosaic result always suffers from artifacts. In order to achieve natural-looking stitching results without the above limitation, we divide the proposed method into the following two steps, namely, local least square alignment and global similarity constraint. Starting from initial feature sets obtained by traditional feature extraction methods, we construct a robust alignment energy based on parallax errors to adaptively eliminate parallax effects. The energy can be efficiently minimized used least square estimate. Combined with global similarity constraint, our proposed strategy can flexibly improve the naturalness of the results. Experiments show that our stitching strategy can more effectively eliminate parallax effects and achieve natural-looking results compared to other state-of-the-art methods.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"80 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":"124605651","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}
M. Yahia, Tarig Ali, M. Mortula, R. Abdelfattah, S. Elmahdy
{"title":"Infinite Number of Looks Prediction in Polsar Filtering by Linear Regression","authors":"M. Yahia, Tarig Ali, M. Mortula, R. Abdelfattah, S. Elmahdy","doi":"10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323632","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the application of the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) infinite number of looks prediction (INLP) filter is extended to polarimetric SAR (PoISAR) speckle filtering. The scalar linear regression rule has been adapted to PolSAR context in order to preserve the polarimetric information. Experimental results using simulated and airborne PolSAR data show that the proposed approach improved the polarimetric filtering criteria.","PeriodicalId":444267,"journal":{"name":"IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium","volume":"103 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":"124615852","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}