The quantification of remote sensing

The paper firstly defined the remote sensing information quantification, analyzed the necessity of developing remote sensing quantification, figured out the application guidelines requirement, and pointed out the importance of quantification research. Then taking the remote sensing application research of CBERS-02 data quantification as the example, the paper described the whole quantification system of “remotely sensed digital signal-radiation information-field parameter inversion”. Finally the paper gave the prospect for the development trend of the quantitative remote sensing.     

遥感数据时空融合技术在农作物监测中的适应性研究

受卫星回访周期及云的影响,大范围研究区同一时期的Landsat卫星数据很难获取,因而国内外学者提出了遥感影像时空融合技术。以石河子为实验区,利用STARFM(Spatial and Temporal Adaptive Reflectance Fusion Model)模型融合生成了高时空分辨率TM影像,对不同作物类型真实反射率与融合影像反射率作相关性分析,分析了遥感数据时空融合技术在新疆农作物监测中的适用性。结果表明:利用STARFM模型模拟得到的融合影像与真实影像间的相关性较高,但当地物类型发生变化时,融合影像与真实影像间将存在明显的差异。地物类型变化作物融合影像反射率与真实影像反射率间的相关性较小。     

A Cellular Automata Based Rainfall-Runoff Model for Urban Inundation Analysis Under Different Land Uses

Recently many runoff models based on cellular automaton (CA) have been developed to simulate floods; however, the existing models cannot be readily applied to complex urban environments. This study proposes a novel rainfall-runoff model based on CA (RRCA) to simulate inundation. Its main contributions include a fine runoff generation process that considers 12 urban scenarios rather than a single land use type and the confluence process determined by the new transition rules considering water supply and demand (WS-WD transition rules). RRCA was compared with another CA based flood model (E2DCA). With the benchmark model, the results showed that there was good agreement, with an R-squared greater than 0.9, and that RRCA was more sensitive to waterlogging levels than E2DCA. Furthermore, the simulated vegetation interception, infiltration and drainage processes had varying degrees of impact on waterlogging. Corresponding measures can be taken in urban flood management according to the identification of areas experiencing drainage difficulties.

     

A graph-based semi-supervised approach to classification learning in digital geographies

As the distinction between online and physical spaces rapidly degrades, social media have now become an integral component of how many people's everyday experiences are mediated. As such, increasing interest has emerged in exploring how the content shared through those online platforms comes to contribute to the collaborative creation of places in physical space at the urban scale. Exploring digital geographies of social media data using methods such as qualitative coding (i.e., content labelling) is a flexible but complex task, commonly limited to small samples due to its impracticality over large datasets. In this paper, we propose a new tool for studies in digital geographies, bridging qualitative and quantitative approaches, able to learn a set of arbitrary labels (qualitative codes) on a small, manually-created sample and apply the same labels on a larger set. We introduce a semi-supervised, deep neural network approach to classify geo-located social media posts based on their textual and image content, as well as geographical and temporal aspects. Our innovative approach is rooted in our understanding of social media posts as augmentations of the time-space configurations that places are, and it comprises a stacked multi-modal autoencoder neural network to create joint representations of text and images, and a spatio-temporal graph convolution neural network for semi-supervised classification. The results presented in this paper show that our approach performs the classification of social media content with higher accuracy than traditional machine learning models as well as two state-of-art deep learning frameworks.     

Automatic inpainting by removing fence-like structures in RGBD images

Recent inpainting techniques usually require human interactions which are labor intensive and dependent on the user experiences. In this paper, we introduce an automatic inpainting technique to remove undesired fence-like structures from images. Specifically, the proposed technique works on the RGBD images which have recently become cheaper and easier to obtain using the Microsoft Kinect. The basic idea is to segment and remove the undesired fence-like structures by using both depth and color information, and then adapt an existing inpainting algorithm to fill the holes resulting from the structure removal. We found that it is difficult to achieve a satisfactory segmentation of such structures by only using the depth channel. In this paper, we use the depth information to help identify a set of foreground and background strokes, with which we apply a graph-cut algorithm on the color channels to obtain a more accurate segmentation for inpainting. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique by experiments on a set of Kinect images.     

Target detection based on a dynamic subspace

For hyperspectral target detection, it is usually the case that only part of the targets pixels can be used as target signatures, so can we use them to construct the most proper background subspace for detecting all the probable targets? In this paper, a dynamic subspace detection (DSD) method which establishes a multiple detection framework is proposed. In each detection procedure, blocks of pixels are calculated by the random selection and the succeeding detection performance distribution analysis. Manifold analysis is further used to eliminate the probable anomalous pixels and purify the subspace datasets, and the remaining pixels construct the subspace for each detection procedure. The final detection results are then enhanced by the fusion of target occurrence frequencies in all the detection procedures. Experiments with both synthetic and real hyperspectral images (HSI) evaluate the validation of our proposed DSD method by using several different state-of-the-art methods as the basic detectors. With several other single detectors and multiple detection methods as comparable methods, improved receiver operating characteristic curves and better separability between targets and backgrounds by the DSD methods are illustrated. The DSD methods also perform well with the covariance-based detectors, showing their efficiency in selecting covariance information for detection.     

Recent climate variability and its impact on precipitation,temperature, and vegetation dynamics in the Lancang River headwater area of China

The alpine ecosystem is one of the most fragile ecosystems threatened by global climate change. The impact of climate variability on the vegetation dynamics of alpine ecosystems has become important in global change studies. In this study, spatially explicit gridded data, including the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land-surface temperature (LST) product (MOD11A1/A2), the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) rainfall product (3B43), and MODIS net primary productivity (NPP) product (MOD17A3), together with meteorological observation data, were used to explore the spatio-temporal pattern of climate variability and its impact on vegetation dynamics from 2000 to 2012 in the Lancang River headwater area. We found that the variation patterns of LST, precipitation, and NPP in the study area showed remarkable spatial differences. From the northwest to the southeast the spatial variation of average annual LST exhibited a decreasing–increasing–decreasing–increasing pattern. At the same time, most of the study area exhibited an increasing LST during the growing season. The annual precipitation increased in the semi-arid northern part, whereas it decreased in the semi-humid southern part. The precipitation variability during the growing season has a pattern similar to the annual precipitation variability. Although the majority of the regions have seen an NPP increase from 2000 to 2012, the responses of the vegetation to the varied climate factors were spatially heterogeneous. The alpine–subalpine meadows in the high-altitude areas were more sensitive to climate variability in the growing season. It is argued that satellite remote-sensing products have great potential in investigating the impact of climate variability on vegetation dynamics at the finer scale, especially for the Lancang River headwater area with complex surface heterogeneity.     

自适应的三维分形地形重建算法研究*

针对常规三维分形地形重建算法具有的速度慢、插值点分布不均匀、参数设置复杂等缺点,提出自适应的三维分形地形重建算法。该算法根据地形的起伏特征自动确定垂直压缩因子,根据子域面积进行均匀插值。实验结果表明,该方法插值效率更高,所获得的插值曲面更加真实,与常规分形插值相比具有一定的优越性。     

Down-scaling LUCC based on the histo-variogram

In remote sensing applications, accurate extraction of land type area after classification is very important. But for images of land use/cover change (LUCC) obtained from the special spatial resolution remote sensing data, it will be of great significance to obtain the land type area information with higher resolution by making use of spatial distribution characteristcs information of the land type itself first and further scaling-down in a given scale threshold on the basis of the existing spatial resolution data. An explicit expression of the relationship between the measurement scale, global fractal dimension and the land type area corresponding to different measurement scales is obtained on the research basis of the authors’ histo-variogram using the standardized area index (SAI). A good attempt has been made to obtain the land type area information with higher resolution by merely using the spatial distribution characteristcs information of the land type in the image itself and further scaling-down in a given scale threshold on the basis of the existing spatial resolution data. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40601068), the National Basic Research Program of China (“973” Project) (Grant No. 2007CB714402) and the Key Science and Technology R&D Program of Qinghai Province (Grant No. 2006-6-160-01)