基于时序Landsat数据的三江平原植被地表类型变化遥感探测研究

Landsat 卫星遥感数据具有分辨率较高,数据积累时间长的特点,在探测地表覆盖变化和地物分类中得到广泛应用。首先,对获取的Landsat TM/ETM+时间序列数据进行了定量化处理,获取了三江平原七台河市1989~2012年时间序列Landsat地表反射率图像。其次,设计了林地指数和湿地指数,提取了三江平原七台河区域地物光谱和时序特征,同时设计构建了地表覆盖分类和植被地表类型变化探测的决策树算法,实现了1989~2012年七台河区域的植被地表覆盖变化的动态监测,提取了森林覆盖变化的空间分布与变化时间。最后,对七台河区域地表覆盖与植被地表类型变化进行了精度检验,分类总体精度达到90.04%,Kappa系数达0.88。研究结果表明:基于定量化的Landsat时间序列数据的分类算法能克服单时相影像分类的缺陷,实现区域地物自动分类和地表覆盖变化的动态监测。
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CBERS与TM遥感影像湿地覆被分类对比分析

为了对比CBERS与TM两种遥感影像在地表覆被信息提取中的具体性能,验证基于CBERS遥感影像进行湿地覆被分类的可行性,以典型内陆淡水湿地区为对象,基于CBERS与TM遥感影像,针对各波段进行信息量统计及光谱特性分析,获取了各波段覆被探测性能的初步认识;运用非监督、监督与面向对象三种代表性分类方法进行分类实验,通过精度误差矩阵对比分类结果,分析了两种遥感影像在湿地覆被分类中的准确程度差异;基于分类结果,通过景观格局指数计算,对比分析了两种影像在湿地覆被信息提取结果上的空间差异和特性。     

面向对象的黑河下游河岸林植被覆盖信息分类!

地表植被覆盖是描述区域生态系统的基础数据,也是全球及区域陆面过程、生态与水文众多模型中所需的重要地表参数。对于黑河下游额济纳绿洲,以Landsat 30m分辨率为主的遥感影像难以真实提取下游绿洲河岸林植被覆盖信息,而高分辨率影像目标地物轮廓清晰、空间细节信息丰富,有利于干旱背景下景观破碎、异质性强的植被覆盖信息分类。基于黑河下游额济纳绿洲QuickBird影像,通过面向对象的分类方法提取耕地、胡杨、柽柳、草地和裸地等主要植被覆盖类型,分类总体精度和Kappa系数分别为84.71%和0.7986。结果表明:利用面向对象分类方法对高分辨率影像进行植被覆盖信息分类,分类结果较好,能够满足精度要求。     

基于Radarsat-2全极化数据的高原牧草覆盖地表土壤水分反演

大面积土壤水分反演对于青海湖流域草场的管理和保护具有重要的意义。利用C波段全极化的Radarsat-2 合成孔径雷达(SAR)影像数据,开展了青海湖流域刚察县附近草场的土壤水分反演研究,在“水-云”模型和Chen模型的基础上,发展了一种新的土壤水分反演算法。该算法消除了植被覆盖以及地表粗糙度对雷达后向散射系数的影响。实验结果表明:预测结果能够与实测数据很好地吻合,R²、RMSE和RPD分别达到0.71\,3.77%和1.64,反演精度较高,能够满足研究区土壤水分的反演精度要求。如果能够更细致地刻画植被层以及地表粗糙度对雷达后向散射系数的影响,土壤水分反演精度有望得到进一步提高。
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遥感监测东北地区典型湖泊湿地变化的方法研究

湖泊湿地生态脆弱,易受环境因子的影响。近十年来,东北地区湖泊湿地的时空格局发生了显著变化。如何简单、有效地提取湿地变化范围进而确定其变化类型是湿地变化检测中最需要解决的问题。基于2006~2016年30 m空间分辨率的Landsat-TM/OLI影像数据,水体、植被和土壤等生态因子的动态变化率被用于提取东北地区湖泊湿地变化范围;多维特征数据集的湿地分类方案确定湿地的变化类型。另外,湿地变化检测类型分为转出类型（湿地减少）,转入类型（湿地增加）和湿地间转换类型（湿地相对稳定）。最终基于动态变化率计算方法,松嫩平原湿地、兴凯湖湿地和呼伦湖湖泊湿地变化结果的正检率均高于90%。同时,利用年内多时相数据和综合多维生态指数共同表征地表的状态变化,实验区的湖泊湿地分类结果的整体分类精度和 Kappa 系数分别达到 84.31%和0.788。湖泊湿地变化检测方法具有很好的检测精度,可以代表研究区湖泊湿地类型的实际变化,是湿地资源调查与遥感监测技术研究的有益补充,为进一步深化与拓宽地表生态质量评价及其动态变化检测的方法研究提供理论基础。     

适用于多目标遥感自动解译的最佳专题指数筛选

专题指数对遥感影像自动解译至关重要,现有研究多针对单目标信息提取来筛选专题指数,无法得到适用于多目标遥感自动解译的最佳专题指数。以德州市城区及周边地区为例,采用Landsat 5TM影像提取了2个植被、3个水体和3个建筑用地专题指数,基于面向对象分类方法,分析了单个专题指数、指数组合、指数数量对同时提取植被、水体和不透水层信息的精度影响。结果表明:(1)3类地物的最小分类精度基本上随着专题指数增加而增大;(2)从单个专题指数来看,不透水层和植被提取的最佳指数分别是建筑物指数和土壤调整植被指数,而新型水体指数则能显著提高总体分类精度;(3)从专题指数的组合来看,植被分类精度随所用的植被指数数量增加而下降;建筑用地指数越多,不透水层和总体分类效果越好;随着水体指数数量增加,水体分类精度有所提高,而不透水层和总体分类精度则随之下降。     

基于遥感影像时间序列的冬小麦种植监测最佳时相选择研究

遥感影像植被分类的最佳时相对作物种植面积遥感监测非常重要。根据2005~2006年北京冬小麦不同物候期的Landsat TM影像和2006年Spot\|2影像,计算了各时期影像中主要植被类型的光谱可分性距离,分析了北京郊区主要植被物候差异和光谱可分性;对各生育期的遥感影像及其主要组合进行了监督分类,采用总体精度和分类效率指标两个参数,结合地面GPS调查数据,对分类结果进行了精度评价。结果表明：北京地区小麦监测最佳时相是4月上旬,影像分类的总体精度为92.9％,明显优于其它单时相影像的分类结果;发现北京郊区冬小麦光谱分类的最佳时相组合为4月上旬(起身期)和5月下旬(灌浆期),分类总体精度为94％。     

基于光谱归一化的变组分光谱混合分析(NMESMA)方法及其应用

混合像元问题在低、中分辨率遥感图像中尤为突出,混合像元的存在不仅会影响地物识别和图像分类精度,也是遥感科学向定量化发展的主要障碍之一。因此,遥感图像混合像元分解及其地表覆盖信息的定量提取是近年来研究的热点。针对城市土地覆盖信息的定量提取问题,利用中等分辨率遥感图像(Landsat TM),集成光谱归一化与变组分光谱混合分析(NMESMA)的方法,基于植被-非渗透表面-土壤(V\|I\|S)模型,定量提取研究区植被、土壤和非渗透表面3类土地覆盖的定量信息,并与固定组分的光谱混合分析(LSMA)分解结果进行对比分析。结果表明:基于光谱归一化的变组分光谱混合分析(NMESMA)方法获得的精度高于传统固定组分的光谱混合分析(LSMA)结果,可有效解决光谱异质性较高的城市区域的混合像元问题,为有效提取城市地表覆盖信息,研究城市生态环境变化和模拟分析,提供了有效的信息提取方法。     

基于Landsat 8卫星影像的北京地区土地覆盖分类

目的 土地覆盖分类能为生态系统模型、水资源模型和气候模型等提供重要信息,遥感技术运用于土地覆盖分类具有诸多优势。作为区域性土地覆盖分类应用的重要数据源,Landsat 5/7的TM和ETM+等数据已逐渐失效,Landsat 8陆地成像仪(OLI)较TM和ETM+增加了新的特性,利用Landsat 8数据进行北京地区土地覆盖分类研究,探讨处理方法的适用性。方法 首先,确定研究区域内土地覆盖分类系统,并对Landsat 8多光谱数据进行预处理,包括大气校正、地形校正、影像拼接及裁剪;然后,利用灰度共生矩阵提取全色波段纹理信息,与多光谱数据进行融合;最后,使用支持向量机(SVM)进行分类,获得土地覆盖分类结果。结果 经过精度评价和分析发现,6S模型大气校正和C模型地形校正预处理提高了不同类别之间的可分性,多光谱数据结合全色波段纹理特征能有效提高部分地物的土地覆盖分类精度,总体精度提高2.8%。结论 相对于Landsat TM/ETM+数据,Landsat 8 OLI数据新增特性有利于土地覆盖分类精度的提高。本文方法适用于Landsat 8 OLI数据土地覆盖分类研究与应用,能够满足大区域土地覆盖分类应用需求。     

基于ALOS影像的盐城海滨湿地遥感信息分类方法研究

盐城海滨湿地类型丰富多样,湿地植物覆被类型之间的生态交错带十分明显,如何更为准确地获得海滨湿地覆盖信息,对湿地研究具有重要价值和意义。以ALOS影像为数据源,江苏盐城海滨湿地核心区为试验区,开展湿地信息遥感分类研究。在对研究区进行非监督分类,分析其限制分类精度原因基础上,针对研究区域的特点提出适合的分类精度改进方法。以非监督分类后的结果为模板,借助分区分层分类方法的思想,通过分析遥感影像光谱信息、纹理信息、主成分变换信息,得到知识规则,以基于知识规则修改的方法对芦苇、米草和盐蒿3种植被交错带进行修正。然后以基于GIS规则的方法对剩余区域进行修正。通过GPS数据进行精度检验,分类精度达到92.6829%,Kappa系数为0.9098。实验证明基于GIS规则和知识规则的分区分层分类法是提高海滨湿地遥感分类精度的有效方法。     

Envisat-ASAR数据的特点及其在多云多雨地区的应用前景

Envisat是由欧空局发射的一颗先进的极轨对地观测卫星,载有10种传感器,其中有先进的合成孔径雷达ASAR(Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar)。ASAR工作在C波段,具有主动相控天线系统,5种成像模式,7种成像条带及交替极化成像功能。以获得的广东肇庆地区的ASAR交替极化模式精确分辨率图像为实例,介绍了ASAR数据的特点,分析ASAR图像中建筑物、河流、农田、船舶、林地等几种典型地物的后向散射系数值。结果表明ASAR数据可以广泛应用于多云多雨地区的土地覆盖分类,农作物估产,船只探测和海洋等领域。     

Dual-season mapping of wetland inundation and vegetation for the central Amazon basin

Wetland extent was mapped for the central Amazon region, using mosaicked L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery acquired by the Japanese Earth Resources Satellite-1. For the wetland portion of the 18×8° study area, dual-season radar mosaics were used to map inundation extent and vegetation under both low-water and high-water conditions at 100-m resolution, producing the first high-resolution wetlands map for the region. Thematic accuracy of the mapping was assessed using high-resolution digital videography acquired during two aerial surveys of the Brazilian Amazon. A polygon-based segmentation and clustering was used to delineate wetland extent with an accuracy of 95%. A pixel-based classifier was used to map wetland vegetation and flooding state based on backscattering coefficients of two-season class combinations. Producer's accuracy for flooded and nonflooded forest classes ranged from 78% to 91%, with lower accuracy (63-65%) for flooded herbaceous vegetation. Seventeen percent of the study quadrat was occupied by wetlands, which were 96% inundated at high water and 26% inundated at low water. Flooded forest constituted nearly 70% of the entire wetland area at high water, but there are large regional variations in the proportions of wetland habitats. The SAR-based mapping provides a basis for improved estimates of the contribution of wetlands to biogeochemical and hydrological processes in the Amazon basin, a key question in the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazônia.     

Integration of multitemporal/polarization C‐band SAR data sets for land‐cover classification

This paper investigates the potential of multitemporal/polarization C‐band SAR data for land‐cover classification. Multitemporal Radarsat‐1 data with HH polarization and ENVISAT ASAR data with VV polarization acquired in the Yedang plain, Korea are used for the classification of typical five land‐cover classes in an agricultural area. The presented methodologies consist of two analytical stages: one for feature extraction and the other for classification based on the combination of features. Both a traditional SAR signal property analysis‐based approach and principal‐component analysis (PCA) are applied in the feature extraction stage. Special concerns are in the interpretation of each principal component by using principal‐component loading. The tau model applied as a decision‐level fusion methodology can provide a formal framework in which the posteriori probabilities derived from different sensor data can be combined. From the case study results, the combination of PCA‐based features showed improved classification accuracy for both Radarsat‐1 and ENVISAT ASAR data, as compared with the traditional SAR signal property analysis‐based approach. The integration of PCA‐based features based on multiple polarization (i.e. HH from Radarsat‐1, and both VV and VH from ENVISAT ASAR) and different incidence angles contributed to a significant improvement of discrimination capability for dry fields which could not be properly classified by using only Radarsat‐1 or ENVISAT ASAR data, and thus showed the best classification accuracy. The results of this case study indicate that the use of multiple polarization SAR data with a proper feature extraction stage would improve classification accuracy in multitemporal SAR data classification, although further consideration should be given to the polarization and incidence angle dependency of complex land‐cover classes through more experiments.     

ASAR polarimetric, multi-incidence angle and multitemporal characterization of Doñana wetlands for flood extent monitoring

Doñana National Park wetlands, in South West Spain, undergo yearly cycles of inundation and drying out. During the hydrological year 2006-2007, 43 ASAR/Envisat images of Doñana, mostly in HH and VV polarizations, were acquired with the aim to monitor the flood extent evolution during an entire flooding cycle. The images were ordered in the seven ASAR incidence angles, also referred to as swaths, to achieve high observation frequency.In this study, backscattering temporal signatures of the main land cover types in Doñana were obtained for the different incidence angles and polarizations. Plots showing the σ⁰HH/σ⁰VV ratio behavior were also produced. The signatures were analyzed with the aid of miscellaneous site data in order to identify the effect of the flooding on the backscattering. Conclusions on the feasibility to discriminate emerged versus flooded land are derived for the different incidence angles, land cover types and phenological stages: intermediate incidence angles (ASAR IS3 and IS4) came up as the most appropriate single swaths to discriminate open water surface from smooth bare soil in the marshland deepest areas. Flood mapping in pasture lands, the most elevated regions, is feasible at steep to mid incidence angles (ASAR IS1 to IS4). In the medium elevation zones, colonized by large helophytes, shallow incidence angles (ASAR IS6 and IS7) enable more accurate flood delineation during the vegetation growing phase.Since Doñana land covers require different observation swaths for flood detection, the composition of different incidence angle images close in time provides the optimum flood mapping. Such composition is possible four times per ASAR 35-day orbit cycle, using pairs of 12-h apart IS1/IS6 and IS2/IS5 Doñana images.     

Predicting winter wheat condition,grain yield and protein content using multi‐temporal EnviSat‐ASAR and Landsat TM satellite images

Since optical and microwave sensors respond to very different target characteristics, their role in crop monitoring can be viewed as complementary. In particular, the all‐weather capability of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensors can ensure that data gaps that often exist during monitoring with optical sensors are filled. There were three Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) satellite images and three Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) satellite images acquired from reviving stage to milking stage of winter wheat. These data were successfully used to monitor crop condition and forecast grain yield and protein content. Results from this study indicated that both multi‐temporal Envisat ASAR and Landsat TM imagery could provide accurate information about crop conditions. First, bivariate correlation results based on the linear regression of crop variables against backscatter suggested that the sensitivity of ASAR C‐HH backscatter image to crop or soil condition variation depends on growth stage and time of image acquisition. At the reviving stage, crop variables, such as biomass, Leaf Area Index (LAI) and plant water content (PWC), were significantly positively correlated with C‐HH backscatter (r = 0.65, 0.67 and 0.70, respectively), and soil water content at 5 cm, 10 cm and 20 cm depths were correlated significantly with C‐VV backscatter (r = 0.44, 0.49 and 0.46, respectively). At booting stage, only a significant and negative correlation was observed between biomass and C‐HH backscatter (r = ?0.44), and a saturation of the SAR signal to canopy LAI could explain the poor correlation between crop variables and C‐HH backscatter. Furthermore, C‐HH backscatter was correlated significantly with soil water content at booting and milking stage. Compared with ASAR backscatter data, the multi‐spectral Landsat TM images were more sensitive to crop variables. Secondly, a significant and negative correlation between grain yield and ASAR C‐HH & C‐VV backscatter at winter wheat booting stage was observed (r = ?0.73 and ?0.55, respectively) and a yield prediction model with a correlation coefficient of 0.91 was built based on the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) data from Landsat TM on 17 April and ASAR C‐HH backscatter on 27 April. Finally, grain protein content was found to be correlated significantly with ASAR C‐HH backscatter at milking stage (r = ?0.61) and with Structure Insensitive Pigment Index (SIPI) data from Landsat TM at grain‐filling stage (r = 0.53), and a grain protein content prediction model with a correlation coefficient of 0.75 was built based on the C‐HH backscatter and SIPI data.     

Analysis of multi-frequency and multi-polarization SAR data for wetland mapping in Hamoun-e-Hirmand wetland

ABSTRACT

The complex, dynamic and narrow boundaries between vegetation types make wetland mapping challenging. Hereafter the case study of the Hamoun-e-Hirmand wetland is considered by analysing eight Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Images acquired in dry and wet periods with three wavelengths (X-band ~ 3 cm, C-band ~ 6 cm, and L-band ~ 25 cm), three polarizations (HH, VV and VH), and four incidence angles (22°, 30°, 34° and 53°). Then, the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification method was applied to classify TerraSAR-X, Sentinel-1, and ALOS-PALSAR images. The final wetland land cover map was created by combining the classification results obtained from each sensor. In the case in question, results show that TerraSAR-X (X-band, HH-53°) and Sentinel-1 data (C-band, VV-34°) were useful for determining the flooded vegetation area in the wet period. This is crucial for the conservation of water bird habitats since flooded vegetation is an ideal environment for the nesting and feeding of water birds. PALSAR data (L-band in both HH and VH polarizations, 30°) were capable of separating the classes of vegetation density in the wetland. In the dry period, Sentinel-1 (VV and VH, 34°) and TerraSAR-X (HH, 22° and 53°) had higher potential in land cover mapping than PALSAR (HH and VH, 30°). Based on these results, Sentinel-1 in VV and VH provides the highest ability to discriminate between dry and green plants. TerraSAR-X is better for separating meadow and bare land. The results obtained in this paper can reduce the ambiguity in selecting satellite data for wetland studies. The results can also be used to produce more accurate data from satellite images and to facilitate wetland investigation, conservation and restoration.     

Research on Glacier Change Monitoring in Nianchu River Basin

This study extracted the local glacier information over the Nianchu river basin in the Tibet in 1996 and 2005 by using ice index,snow index and water index of Landsat TM\|5 multi\|spectral images,and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)intensity and coherence information of ERS\|1/2 and Envisat ASAR.The optimized features were determined by their classification accuracies based on Support Vector Machine (SVM)classifier.The result showed that the composition of multi\|spectral and SAR features could effectively discriminate the water and ice from other types,with overall accuracies of 84% and 85% in 1996 and 2005,respectively.Based on the thematic information of these two years,the changes of the local glacial area and boundary were detected.The result showed that the glacial area of the Nianchu river basin was reduced by 154.7 km²,which mainly caused by the climate warming.     

The contribution of ALOS/PALSAR-1 multi-temporal data to map permanently and temporarily flooded coastal wetlands

ABSTRACT

Although regional wetland mapping studies have mostly relied on optical sensors, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors are being increasingly applied. The aim of this study is to analyse the ability of the Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar on board of the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS/PALSAR-1) data to identify, delineate and monitor wetlands, and to evaluate the importance of scene selection in a highly unpredictable wetland. Three SAR scene sets (Year A, Year B and Inter-annual) were built for this purpose, considering the intra-annual and inter-annual hydrologic variability and the phenologic variability of the studied coastal wetland. Seven land cover types were defined, including three permanently flooded wetland classes, three temporarily flooded wetland classes and one non-wetland class. An object-based unsupervised classification approach was applied on each multi-temporal set. The obtained clusters were characterized by a temporal signature and assigned to the seven land cover types using a decision tree with user-defined thresholds. The accuracy assessment of each product was performed using a set of 258 data sites, including field collected data and data retrieved from Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) imagery acquired during the dates of the field campaign. The Year B set showed the best accuracy (83.4% overall, 75% Kappa coefficient (κ)) and the lowest omission and commission mean errors (16.6% and 16.1% respectively). The classes that were best differentiated are permanently flooded wetlands (PFW) and non-wetlands (NW) in all sets.     

Mapping of flooded vegetation by means of polarimetric Sentinel-1 and ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 imagery

This article presents for the first time the combination of dual-polarimetric C-band Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and quad-polarimetric L-band ALOS-2/PALSAR-2 imagery for mapping of flooded areas with a special focus on flooded vegetation. L-band SAR data is well suited for mapping of flooded vegetation, while C-band enables an accurate extraction open water areas. Polarimetric decomposition-based unsupervised Wishart classification is combined with object-based post-classification refinement and the integration of spatial contextual information and global auxiliary data. In eight different scenarios, focusing on single datasets or fusion of classification results of several ones, respectively, different polarimetric decomposition and classification principles, including the entropy/anisotropy/alpha and the Freeman–Durden–Wishart classification, were investigated. The helix scattering component of the Yamaguchi decomposition, derived from ALOS-2 imagery, showed high suitability to refine the Sentinel-1-based detection of flooded vegetation. A test site at the Evros River (Greek/Turkish border region) was chosen, which was affected by a flooding event that occurred in spring 2015. The validation was based on high spatial resolution optical WorldView-2 imagery acquired with short temporal delay to the SAR data.