Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2023.2237591
Jianjun Huang, Jindong Xu, Qianpeng Chong, Ziyi Li
{"title":"Black and Odorous Water Detection of Remote Sensing Images Based on Improved Deep Learning","authors":"Jianjun Huang, Jindong Xu, Qianpeng Chong, Ziyi Li","doi":"10.1080/07038992.2023.2237591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07038992.2023.2237591","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48843,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44945997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2023.2216312
Jurjen van der Sluijs, D. Peddle, R. Hall
{"title":"Characterizing Tree Species in Northern Boreal Forests Using Multiple-Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis and Multi-Temporal Satellite Imagery","authors":"Jurjen van der Sluijs, D. Peddle, R. Hall","doi":"10.1080/07038992.2023.2216312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07038992.2023.2216312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48843,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47316362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2023.2215333
Amir M. Chegoonian, Nima Pahlevan, Kiana Zolfaghari, Peter R. Leavitt, John-Mark Davies, Helen M. Baulch, Claude R. Duguay
Remote retrieval of near-surface chlorophyll-a (Chla) concentration in small inland waters is challenging due to substantial optical interferences of various water constituents and uncertainties in the atmospheric correction (AC) process. Although various algorithms have been developed to estimate Chla from moderate-resolution terrestrial missions (∼10–60 m), the production of both accurate distribution maps and time series of Chla has proven challenging, limiting the use of remote analyses for lake monitoring. Here, we develop a support vector regression (SVR) model, which uses satellite-derived remote-sensing reflectance spectra (Rrsδ) from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 images as input for Chla retrieval in a representative eutrophic prairie lake, Buffalo Pound Lake (BPL), Saskatchewan, Canada. Validated against in situ Chla from seven ice-free seasons (N ∼ 200; 2014–2020), the SVR model outperformed both locally tuned, Rrsδ-fed empirical models (Normalized Difference Chlorophyll Index, 2- and 3-band, and OC3) and Mixture Density Networks (MDNs) by 15–65%, while exhibiting comparable performance to a locally trained MDN, with an error of ∼35%. Comparison of Chla retrieval models, AC processors (iCOR, ACOLITE), and radiometric products (Rayleigh-corrected, surface, and top-of-atmosphere reflectance) showed that the best Chla maps and optimal time series (up to 100 mg m−3) were produced using a coupled SVR-iCOR system.
{"title":"Comparative Analysis of Empirical and Machine Learning Models for Chl<i>a</i> Extraction Using Sentinel-2 and Landsat OLI Data: Opportunities, Limitations, and Challenges","authors":"Amir M. Chegoonian, Nima Pahlevan, Kiana Zolfaghari, Peter R. Leavitt, John-Mark Davies, Helen M. Baulch, Claude R. Duguay","doi":"10.1080/07038992.2023.2215333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07038992.2023.2215333","url":null,"abstract":"Remote retrieval of near-surface chlorophyll-a (Chla) concentration in small inland waters is challenging due to substantial optical interferences of various water constituents and uncertainties in the atmospheric correction (AC) process. Although various algorithms have been developed to estimate Chla from moderate-resolution terrestrial missions (∼10–60 m), the production of both accurate distribution maps and time series of Chla has proven challenging, limiting the use of remote analyses for lake monitoring. Here, we develop a support vector regression (SVR) model, which uses satellite-derived remote-sensing reflectance spectra (Rrsδ) from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 images as input for Chla retrieval in a representative eutrophic prairie lake, Buffalo Pound Lake (BPL), Saskatchewan, Canada. Validated against in situ Chla from seven ice-free seasons (N ∼ 200; 2014–2020), the SVR model outperformed both locally tuned, Rrsδ-fed empirical models (Normalized Difference Chlorophyll Index, 2- and 3-band, and OC3) and Mixture Density Networks (MDNs) by 15–65%, while exhibiting comparable performance to a locally trained MDN, with an error of ∼35%. Comparison of Chla retrieval models, AC processors (iCOR, ACOLITE), and radiometric products (Rayleigh-corrected, surface, and top-of-atmosphere reflectance) showed that the best Chla maps and optimal time series (up to 100 mg m−3) were produced using a coupled SVR-iCOR system.","PeriodicalId":48843,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135655526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2023.2226220
D. Isleifson, Madison L. Harasyn, D. Landry, D. Babb, Elvis Asihene
{"title":"Observations of Thin First Year Sea Ice Using a Suite of Surface Radar, LiDAR, and Drone Sensors","authors":"D. Isleifson, Madison L. Harasyn, D. Landry, D. Babb, Elvis Asihene","doi":"10.1080/07038992.2023.2226220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07038992.2023.2226220","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48843,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44865887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2023.2236226
E. LeDrew, R. Ryerson
{"title":"The Evolution of Remote Sensing Education in Canada’s Universities and Colleges: Decades of Innovation and Expansion","authors":"E. LeDrew, R. Ryerson","doi":"10.1080/07038992.2023.2236226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07038992.2023.2236226","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48843,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44267951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2023.2246158
Jianshang Liao, Liguo Wang, Genping Zhao
Gabor filter is widely used to extract spatial texture features of hyperspectral images (HSI) for HSI classification; however, a single Gabor filter cannot obtain the complete image features. In the paper, we propose an HSI classification method that combines the Gabor filter (GF) and domain-transformation standard convolution (DTNC) filter. First, we use the Gabor filter to extract spatial texture features from the first two principal components of the dimensionality-reduction HSI with PCA. Second, we use the DTNC filter to extract spatial correlation features from HSI in all bands. Finally, the Large Margin Distribution Machine (LDM) uses the linear fusion of the two kinds of spatial features to classify HSI. The experimental results show that the classification accuracy of Indian Pines, Pavia University, and Kennedy Space Center data sets is 96.64, 98.23, and 98.95% with only 4, 3, and 6% training samples, respectively; and these accuracies are 2–20% higher than the other tested methods. Compared with the hyperspectral information based on SVM, EPF, IFRF, PCA-EPFs, LDM-FL, and GFDN method, the proposed method, GFDTNCLDM, significantly improves the accuracy of HSI classification.
{"title":"Hyperspectral Image Classification Based on the Gabor Feature with Correlation Information","authors":"Jianshang Liao, Liguo Wang, Genping Zhao","doi":"10.1080/07038992.2023.2246158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07038992.2023.2246158","url":null,"abstract":"Gabor filter is widely used to extract spatial texture features of hyperspectral images (HSI) for HSI classification; however, a single Gabor filter cannot obtain the complete image features. In the paper, we propose an HSI classification method that combines the Gabor filter (GF) and domain-transformation standard convolution (DTNC) filter. First, we use the Gabor filter to extract spatial texture features from the first two principal components of the dimensionality-reduction HSI with PCA. Second, we use the DTNC filter to extract spatial correlation features from HSI in all bands. Finally, the Large Margin Distribution Machine (LDM) uses the linear fusion of the two kinds of spatial features to classify HSI. The experimental results show that the classification accuracy of Indian Pines, Pavia University, and Kennedy Space Center data sets is 96.64, 98.23, and 98.95% with only 4, 3, and 6% training samples, respectively; and these accuracies are 2–20% higher than the other tested methods. Compared with the hyperspectral information based on SVM, EPF, IFRF, PCA-EPFs, LDM-FL, and GFDN method, the proposed method, GFDTNCLDM, significantly improves the accuracy of HSI classification.","PeriodicalId":48843,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135799624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2023.2255068
Xiaolu Zhang, Zhaoshun Wang, Anlei Wei
As remote sensing images have complex backgrounds and varying object sizes, their semantic segmentation is challenging. This study proposes a multiscale cascaded network (MSCNet) for semantic segmentation. The resolutions employed with respect to the input remote sensing images are 1, 1/2, and 1/4, which represent high, medium, and low resolutions. First, 3 backbone networks extract features with different resolutions. Then, using a multiscale attention network, the fused features are input into the dense atrous spatial pyramid pooling network to obtain multiscale information. The proposed MSCNet introduces multiscale feature extraction and attention mechanism modules suitable for remote sensing land-cover classification. Experiments are performed using the Deepglobe, Vaihingen, and Potsdam datasets; the results are compared with those of the existing classical semantic segmentation networks. The findings indicate that the mean intersection over union (mIoU) of the MSCNet is 4.73% higher than that of DeepLabv3+ with the Deepglobe datasets. For the Vaihingen datasets, the mIoU of the MSCNet is 15.3%, and 6.4% higher than those of a segmented network (SegNet), and DeepLabv3+, respectively. For the Potsdam datasets, the mIoU of the MSCNet is higher than those of a fully convolutional network, Res-U-Net, SegNet, and DeepLabv3+ by 11.18%, 5.89%, 4.78%, and 3.03%, respectively.
{"title":"Multiscale Cascaded Network for the Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images","authors":"Xiaolu Zhang, Zhaoshun Wang, Anlei Wei","doi":"10.1080/07038992.2023.2255068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07038992.2023.2255068","url":null,"abstract":"As remote sensing images have complex backgrounds and varying object sizes, their semantic segmentation is challenging. This study proposes a multiscale cascaded network (MSCNet) for semantic segmentation. The resolutions employed with respect to the input remote sensing images are 1, 1/2, and 1/4, which represent high, medium, and low resolutions. First, 3 backbone networks extract features with different resolutions. Then, using a multiscale attention network, the fused features are input into the dense atrous spatial pyramid pooling network to obtain multiscale information. The proposed MSCNet introduces multiscale feature extraction and attention mechanism modules suitable for remote sensing land-cover classification. Experiments are performed using the Deepglobe, Vaihingen, and Potsdam datasets; the results are compared with those of the existing classical semantic segmentation networks. The findings indicate that the mean intersection over union (mIoU) of the MSCNet is 4.73% higher than that of DeepLabv3+ with the Deepglobe datasets. For the Vaihingen datasets, the mIoU of the MSCNet is 15.3%, and 6.4% higher than those of a segmented network (SegNet), and DeepLabv3+, respectively. For the Potsdam datasets, the mIoU of the MSCNet is higher than those of a fully convolutional network, Res-U-Net, SegNet, and DeepLabv3+ by 11.18%, 5.89%, 4.78%, and 3.03%, respectively.","PeriodicalId":48843,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135799633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2022.2154598
Levi Keay, Christopher Mulverhill, N. Coops, G. McCartney
{"title":"Automated Forest Harvest Detection With a Normalized PlanetScope Imagery Time Series","authors":"Levi Keay, Christopher Mulverhill, N. Coops, G. McCartney","doi":"10.1080/07038992.2022.2154598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07038992.2022.2154598","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48843,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43309935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2022.2145460
Rajeev Bhattarai, Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, A. Weiskittel
Abstract Spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana; SBW) outbreaks in the northeastern USA and Canada are recurring phenomena leading to large-scale mortality of spruce (Picea sp.) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) forests as susceptibility to SBW is primarily determined by the availability of host species and their maturity. Our study examined several satellite remote sensing (Sentinel-1 C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), PALSAR L-band SAR, and Sentinel-2 multispectral) and site variables over space and time to develop a method to produce large-scale SBW stand impact types and susceptibility maps in Maine, USA. We used two machine-learning algorithms (Random Forest, RF; Multi-Layer Perceptron, MLP) to map SBW host species where RF produced better results than MLP. Our best model with site (elevation and aspect) and Sentinel-2 data attained an overall accuracy (OA) of 83.4%. However, the addition of SAR variables did not improve the model further. Combining host species data with age data retrieved from Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) products, we demonstrated that SBW susceptibility map (based on stand impact types) could be produced with an OA of 88.3%. The fine spatial resolution (20 m) maps derived from our study provide reliable products for landscape-level SBW interventions in the region.
{"title":"Multi-Source Mapping of Forest Susceptibility to Spruce Budworm Defoliation Based on Stand Age and Composition across a Complex Landscape in Maine, USA","authors":"Rajeev Bhattarai, Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, A. Weiskittel","doi":"10.1080/07038992.2022.2145460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07038992.2022.2145460","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana; SBW) outbreaks in the northeastern USA and Canada are recurring phenomena leading to large-scale mortality of spruce (Picea sp.) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) forests as susceptibility to SBW is primarily determined by the availability of host species and their maturity. Our study examined several satellite remote sensing (Sentinel-1 C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), PALSAR L-band SAR, and Sentinel-2 multispectral) and site variables over space and time to develop a method to produce large-scale SBW stand impact types and susceptibility maps in Maine, USA. We used two machine-learning algorithms (Random Forest, RF; Multi-Layer Perceptron, MLP) to map SBW host species where RF produced better results than MLP. Our best model with site (elevation and aspect) and Sentinel-2 data attained an overall accuracy (OA) of 83.4%. However, the addition of SAR variables did not improve the model further. Combining host species data with age data retrieved from Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) products, we demonstrated that SBW susceptibility map (based on stand impact types) could be produced with an OA of 88.3%. The fine spatial resolution (20 m) maps derived from our study provide reliable products for landscape-level SBW interventions in the region.","PeriodicalId":48843,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing","volume":"48 1","pages":"873 - 893"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47743832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2022.2144179
Julie Lovitt, Galen Richardson, K. Rajaratnam, Wen-jia Chen, S. Leblanc, Liming He, S. Nielsen, Ashley Hillman, Isabelle Schmelzer, A. Arsenault
Abstract High-quality ground-truth data are critical for developing reliable Earth Observation (EO) based geospatial products. Conventional methods of collecting these data are either subject to an unknown amount of human error and bias or require extended time in the field to complete (i.e., point-intercept assessments). Digital photograph classification (DPC) may address these drawbacks. In this study, we first assess the performance of a DPC method developed through licensed software to estimate ground cover percentage (%) of bright lichens, a critical caribou forage in fall and winter when other food resources are scarce. We then evaluate the feasibility of replicating this workflow in an open-source environment with a modified U-net model to improve processing time and scalability. Our results indicate that DPC is appropriate for generating ground-truth data in support of large-scale EO-based lichen mapping within the boreal forests of eastern Canada. Our final open-sourced classification model, Lichen Convolutional Neural Network (LiCNN), is comparably accurate yet more efficient than the licensed workflow. Therefore, the LiCNN approach successfully addresses the mentioned shortcomings of conventional ground-truth data collection methods efficiently and without the need for specialized software.
{"title":"A New U-Net Based Convolutional Neural Network for Estimating Caribou Lichen Ground Cover from Field-Level RGB Images","authors":"Julie Lovitt, Galen Richardson, K. Rajaratnam, Wen-jia Chen, S. Leblanc, Liming He, S. Nielsen, Ashley Hillman, Isabelle Schmelzer, A. Arsenault","doi":"10.1080/07038992.2022.2144179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07038992.2022.2144179","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract High-quality ground-truth data are critical for developing reliable Earth Observation (EO) based geospatial products. Conventional methods of collecting these data are either subject to an unknown amount of human error and bias or require extended time in the field to complete (i.e., point-intercept assessments). Digital photograph classification (DPC) may address these drawbacks. In this study, we first assess the performance of a DPC method developed through licensed software to estimate ground cover percentage (%) of bright lichens, a critical caribou forage in fall and winter when other food resources are scarce. We then evaluate the feasibility of replicating this workflow in an open-source environment with a modified U-net model to improve processing time and scalability. Our results indicate that DPC is appropriate for generating ground-truth data in support of large-scale EO-based lichen mapping within the boreal forests of eastern Canada. Our final open-sourced classification model, Lichen Convolutional Neural Network (LiCNN), is comparably accurate yet more efficient than the licensed workflow. Therefore, the LiCNN approach successfully addresses the mentioned shortcomings of conventional ground-truth data collection methods efficiently and without the need for specialized software.","PeriodicalId":48843,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing","volume":"48 1","pages":"849 - 872"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43781737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}