85 research outputs found

    FUSING OF OPTICAL AND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) REMOTE SENSING DATA: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW (SLR)

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    Remote sensing and image fusion have recognized many important improvements throughout the recent years, especially fusion of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR), there are so many published papers that worked on fusing optical and SAR data which used in many application fields in remote sensing such as Land use Mapping and monitoring. The goal of this survey paper is to summarize and synthesize the published articles from 2013 to 2018 which focused on the fusion of Optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing data in a systematic literature review (SLR), based on the pre-published articles on indexed database related to this subject and outlining the latest techniques as well as the most used methods. In addition this paper highlights the most popular image fusion methods in this blending type. After conducting many researches in the indexed databases by using different key words related to the topic “fusion Optical and SAR in remote sensing”, among 705 articles, chosen 83 articles, which match our inclusion criteria and research questions as results ,all the systematic study ‘ questions have been answered and discussed

    The roles of textural images in improving land-cover classification in the Brazilian Amazon.

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    Texture has long been recognized as valuable in improving land-cover classification, but how data from different sensors with varying spatial resolutions affect the selection of textural images is poorly understood. This research examines textural images from the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM), ALOS (Advanced Land Observing Satellite) PALSAR (Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar), the SPOT (Satellite Pour l?Observation de la Terre) high-resolution geometric (HRG) instrument, and the QuickBird satellite, which have pixel sizes of 30, 12.5, 10/5, and 0.6 m, respectively, for land-cover classification in the Brazilian Amazon. GLCM (grey-level co-occurrence matrix)-based texture measures with various sizes of moving windows are used to extract textural images from the aforementioned sensor data. An index based on standard deviations and correlation coefficients is used to identify the best texture combination following separability analysis of land-cover types based on training sample plots. A maximum likelihood classifier is used to conduct the land-cover classification, and the results are evaluated using field survey data. This research shows the importance of textural images in improving land-cover classification, and the importance becomes more significant as the pixel size improved. It is also shown that texture is especially important in the case of the ALOS PALSAR and QuickBird data. Overall, textural images have less capability in distinguishing land-cover types than spectral signatures, especially for Landsat TM imagery, but incorporation of textures into radiometric data is valuable for improving landcover classification. The classification accuracy can be improved by 5.2?13.4% as the pixel size changes from 30 to 0.6 m

    Monitoring of Tsunami/Earthquake Damages by Polarimetric Microwave Remote Sensing Technique

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    Polarization characterizes the vector state of EM wave. When interacting with polarized wave, rough natural surface often induces dominant surface scattering; building also presents dominant double-bounce scattering. Tsunami/earthquake causes serious destruction just by inundating the land surface and destroying the building. By analyzing the change of surface and double-bounce scattering before and after disaster, we can achieve a monitoring of damages. This constitutes one basic principle of polarimetric microwave remote sensing of tsunami/earthquake. The extraction of surface and double-bounce scattering from coherency matrix is achieved by model-based decomposition. The general four-component scattering power decomposition with unitary transformation (G4U) has been widely used in the remote sensing of tsunami/earthquake to identify surface and double-bounce scattering because it can adaptively enhance surface or double-bounce scattering. Nonetheless, the strict derivation in this chapter conveys that G4U cannot always strengthen the double-bounce scattering in urban area nor strengthen the surface scattering in water or land area unless we adaptively combine G4U and its duality for an extended G4U (EG4U). Experiment on the ALOS-PALSAR datasets of 2011 great Tohoku tsunami/earthquake demonstrates not only the outperformance of EG4U but also the effectiveness of polarimetric remote sensing in the qualitative monitoring and quantitative evaluation of tsunami/earthquake damages

    Integrated non-invasive remote-sensing techniques and field survey for the geoarchaeological study of the Sud Lípez mining district, Bolivia

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    New investigations have been carried out in the framework of a joint French-Argentine project dealing with the mineral resources and the metal production in the Andean plateau from the 10th to the 18th century. Geoarchaeology of the Sud Lípez, southern Bolivia, is revisited using multisource remote-sensing data including archive data from the 1960s and recent very high resolution (VHR) data simultaneously acquired with field work. The detailed geological mapping of the area is allowed by the field survey complemented by the multispectral and VHR data. The emphasis is on integrating all the geological features such as morphologies, petrology of the volcanics, lithology of the volcano-sedimentary rocks, regional and local faulting, veins, hydrothermally altered rocks, etc. GeoEye-1, which features the most advanced technology ever used in a civilian remote-sensing system, allows the detailed mapping of the archaeological remains that are particularly numerous at San Antonio de Lípez, with shallow pits, shafts connected in depth with adits, and large slag areas. Particularly, the plan of three old miners' villages has been drawn and its accuracy has been evaluated.Fil: Deroin, Jean Paul. Universite de Reims-Champagne Ardenne; FranciaFil: Téreygeol, Florian. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; FranciaFil: Cruz, Pablo. Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación. Dirección Nacional de Cultura y Museos. Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Guillot, Ivan. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; FranciaFil: Méaudre, Jean Charles. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Franci

    A Study of Types of Sensors used in Remote Sensing

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    Of late, the science of Remote Sensing has been gaining a lot of interest and attention due to its wide variety of applications. Remotely sensed data can be used in various fields such as medicine, agriculture, engineering, weather forecasting, military tactics, disaster management etc. only to name a few. This article presents a study of the two categories of sensors namely optical and microwave which are used for remotely sensing the occurrence of disasters such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, avalanches, tropical cyclones and suspicious movements. The remotely sensed data acquired either through satellites or through ground based- synthetic aperture radar systems could be used to avert or mitigate a disaster or to perform a post-disaster analysis

    Remote sensing for biodiversity monitoring: a review of methods for biodiversity indicator extraction and assessment of progress towards international targets

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    Recognizing the imperative need for biodiversity protection, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has recently established new targets towards 2020, the so-called Aichi targets, and updated proposed sets of indicators to quantitatively monitor the progress towards these targets. Remote sensing has been increasingly contributing to timely, accurate, and cost-effective assessment of biodiversity-related characteristics and functions during the last years. However, most relevant studies constitute individual research efforts, rarely related with the extraction of widely adopted CBD biodiversity indicators. Furthermore, systematic operational use of remote sensing data by managing authorities has still been limited. In this study, the Aichi targets and the related CBD indicators whose monitoring can be facilitated by remote sensing are identified. For each headline indicator a number of recent remote sensing approaches able for the extraction of related properties are reviewed. Methods cover a wide range of fields, including: habitat extent and condition monitoring; species distribution; pressures from unsustainable management, pollution and climate change; ecosystem service monitoring; and conservation status assessment of protected areas. The advantages and limitations of different remote sensing data and algorithms are discussed. Sorting of the methods based on their reported accuracies is attempted, when possible. The extensive literature survey aims at reviewing highly performing methods that can be used for large-area, effective, and timely biodiversity assessment, to encourage the more systematic use of remote sensing solutions in monitoring progress towards the Aichi targets, and to decrease the gaps between the remote sensing and management communities

    Aplicación de imágenes de satélite y de sistemas UAV para la producción de guayaba en la provincia de Vélez, Santander

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    El presente artículo muestra el acercamiento de imágenes provenientes de sensores remotos tales como imágenes de satéliteo imágenes tomadas en sistemas de Vehículos Aéreos No Tripulados (UAV, por sus siglas en inglés), aplicadas a la producciónde la guayaba. El Centro de Gestión Agroempresarial de Oriente (CGAO), perteneciente al Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje(SENA), generó productos de escala regional para la provinciade Vélez con imágenes Landsat 8 TIRS como lo son mapas deíndices de vegetación diferencialmente normalizados y ajustadosal suelo (NDVI, SAVI), Mapas de Índices Foliares (IAF, por sussiglas en inglés) y mapas de temperatura. El Modelo Digital deElevación (MDE) para la provincia se generó a partir de imágenesdel sensor ALOS PALSAR; los productos generados a escala localpara los cultivos en diversas etapas de la producción (en funciónde la poda) corresponden a ortofotomosaicos, ortofotomapas,Modelos Digitales de Elevación (MDE) con imágenes capturadas por sistemas UAV. Las resoluciones de los diversos sensoresutilizados facilitan al estudio encontrar una correlación entre lascaracterísticas locales y regionales que afectan directa e indirectamente la producción de la guayaba en la zon
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