Mojtaba Akhoundi Khezrabad; Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej; alireza safdari nezhad
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Due to the wide applications of hyperspectral images, economical and innovative imaging systems are developed to acquire such images. In order to use hyperspectral images, it is necessary to establish an accurate relation between the ground space and the image space, which needs numerous Ground Control ...
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Due to the wide applications of hyperspectral images, economical and innovative imaging systems are developed to acquire such images. In order to use hyperspectral images, it is necessary to establish an accurate relation between the ground space and the image space, which needs numerous Ground Control Points (GCPs). This fact highlights the need for developing geometric corrections methods for any camera design. BaySpec OCI-F (400-1000 nm) is one of the innovative cameras that acquires pushbroom hyperspectral images. In addition to the pushbroom sensor, the camera uses a frame sensor that acquires images at the same time as the pushbroom sensor and with the same temporal rate. In this article, a geometric correction method for pushbroom images of OCI-F camera is proposed. Based on the camera’s imaging design, the first step of the method determines a set of calibration parameters which geometrically relates the pushbroom and the frame sensors. Then using this relation and the geometric relations among consecutive frames, the pixels of the pushbroom scene are rearranged and form the corrected image. The proposed method determines the relation among the consecutive images via Least Square Matching (LSM) method. The results show that the correction method has decreased the geometric distortions of the raw pushbroom scene by 62.2% on average. Such a reduction causes the average accuracies of two-dimensional and three-dimensional generic models which relate image space and ground space together, to increase by 34.1% and 39.9% respectively.
Alireza Taheri Dehkordi; Mohammad Javad Valadanzouj; Alireza Safdarinezhad
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Map of croplands is one of the information layers required in the efficient management of these lands. Having such maps makes it possible to monitor agricultural fields during the growing season continuously. In this study, a solution to produce map of Shahrekord’s agricultural lands in two agricultural ...
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Map of croplands is one of the information layers required in the efficient management of these lands. Having such maps makes it possible to monitor agricultural fields during the growing season continuously. In this study, a solution to produce map of Shahrekord’s agricultural lands in two agricultural and non-agricultural classes is presented using the time series of different extracted indices from Sentinel-2 images. Since the use of large data sources is one of the obstacles to the development of methods based on the time series of satellite images, the Google Earth engine processing platform has been used in this study. The proposed method is based on integrating supervised pixel-based classification results with segmentation results. First, training data of supervised classification is provided in a rigorous refining process without the need of collected data from field surveys or interpretation of high-resolution satellite images. Then, by calculating the separability of the two target classes in the time series of each index, the optimal indices are selected. Finally, by combining the results of segmentation and classification methods based on the votes obtained from the classification results, agricultural or non-agricultural class is assigned to each of the image segments. In addition to incorporating spatial information including edges and spatial proximity, this method has been able to improve the noise and porous results of pixel-based classification and has increased the overall accuracy of the final map from 90.7% to 96.05%. Also, user accuracy of both agricultural and non-agricultural classes show an improvement of 3.27 and 7.97%, respectively.
Maryam Teimouri; Mehdi Mokhtarzade; Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej
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In this study, the SAR data is used as a supplementary data to overcome the limitations of the multispectral (MS) image in building detection. Therefore, the proposed method utilizes a multisensor data fusion to take the advantages of both MS and SAR data together. In addition, two different filter-based ...
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In this study, the SAR data is used as a supplementary data to overcome the limitations of the multispectral (MS) image in building detection. Therefore, the proposed method utilizes a multisensor data fusion to take the advantages of both MS and SAR data together. In addition, two different filter-based feature selection methods, MNF and PCA, are investigated as an alternative scenario when the training data is not accessible. In this respect, the optimum feature vector is selected using MNF, PCA and Genetic methods from MS and SAR data, separately. Thereafter, each selected feature vector is used to classify the images by implementing the support vector machine (SVM) and the artificial neural network classification methods. The experimental result shows that the PCA is able to select the feature vector without the need of training data as well as genetic algorithm. However, the MS classification result is poor where both roofs and streets are covered with asphalt. In this framework, the fusion of SAR and MS images in feature level was utilized to improve the classification results. Finally, to assign a label at the sample, a majority voting is calculated between the used classification methods results. However, according to the noisy result, using the neighborhood information in the form of a moving spatial window in different sizes is examined to determine the label of the central pixel more accurately. According to the experimental results, the overall accuracy and building detection accuracy are obtained 92.82% and 80.14%, respectively, which represent the satisfying performance of the proposed method.
Hamid Jannati; Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej
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Speckle in Synthetic aperture radar images makes grainy effects, because of the coherent imaging system which cause some difficulties in object-oriented processes, like segmentation or classification. Therefore, a lot of methods have been developed for speckle reduction purpose. These methods can be ...
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Speckle in Synthetic aperture radar images makes grainy effects, because of the coherent imaging system which cause some difficulties in object-oriented processes, like segmentation or classification. Therefore, a lot of methods have been developed for speckle reduction purpose. These methods can be classified but not limited in some approaches, like spatial based, transform based and optimization, which mostly suffer from limitations like edge and texture destruction and also regulating parameter dependence. In this paper a new structure has been presented based on adaptive filtering of the amplitude response of the discrete fourier transform of the image in the frequency space, which not only reduces the speckle but also preserves edges and delicate textures. In addition, it has low level of computation and complexity compared to the kernel dependent spatial approaches. The main contribution of the paper is to fit a predefined analytical function to amplitude response of the discrete fourier transform of the image, in order to recover underlying speckle reduced SAR image. Proposed method, improves equivalent number of looks index 50 percent and edge preservation index 50 and 30 percent for real and simulated synthetic aperture radar images, respectively.
Behrooz Moradi; mohammad javad valadan zoej; mojtaba jannati; somayeh yavari
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In the absence of satellite ephemeris data and inner geometry of satellite’s sensor, utilization of Rational Function Models (RFMs) is one of the best approaches to georeferencing satellite images and extracting spatial information from them. However, since RFMs have high number of coefficients, ...
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In the absence of satellite ephemeris data and inner geometry of satellite’s sensor, utilization of Rational Function Models (RFMs) is one of the best approaches to georeferencing satellite images and extracting spatial information from them. However, since RFMs have high number of coefficients, then usually high number of control points is needed for their estimation. In the other hand, RFM terms are uninterpretable and all of them causes over-parametrization error which count as the most important weakness of the terrain-dependent RFMs. Utilization of optimization algorithms is one of the best approaches to eliminate these weaknesses. Therefore, various optimization algorithms have been used to discover the optimal composition of RFM’s terms. Since the mechanism of these algorithms is different, the performance and feature characteristics of these algorithms differ in the discovery of the optimal composition train-dependent RFM’s terms. But the existing differences not comprehensively analyzed. In this paper, in order to comprehensive assessment the abilities of Genetic Optimization Algorithm (GA), Genetic modified Algorithm (GM), and a modified Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) in terms of accuracy, quickness, number of control points required, and reliability of results, are evaluated. These methods are evaluated using for different datasets including a GeoEye-1, an IKONOS-2, a SPOT-3-1A, and a SPOT-3-1B satellite images. In terms of accuracy achieved, difference between these methods was less than 0.4 pixel. In terms of speed of evaluation of parameters, GM was 10 to 12 time more quickly in comparison with two other algorithms. In terms of control points required, degree of freedom of modified PSO was 45.25 percent and 27 percent more than GM and GA respectively, and finally in terms of reliability, the dispersion of RMSE obtained in 10 runs of three algorithms are relatively same. These results indicated that accuracy and reliability of all three methods are almost the same, speed of GM is higher and modified PSO needs less control points to optimize terrain-dependent RFM
