Change Detection Within Pipeline ROWs: Environmental Change Analysis Using High Resolution Satellite Imagery

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otto Huisman ◽  
Arash Gharibi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Comparison Method ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Change Analysis ◽  
High Resolution Satellite Images

One of the major concerns for pipeline operators is to efficiently monitor the events happening over the pipeline corridor, or right-of-way (ROW). Monitoring of the ROW is an important part of ensuring the safe and efficient transportation of oil and gas. Events occurring within this zone require rapid assessment and, if necessary, mitigation. These events could be physical intrusions such as encroachment from growing settlements, impact of vegetation, pipeline leakage or geo-environmental hazards. Analysis of satellite imagery can provide an efficient and low cost solution to access and quantify change across the ROW. Examining these events over a periodic interval requires implementation of specific methods that can support the on-going monitoring and decision making practices. In this context, satellite remote sensing images can provide a low cost and efficient solution for monitoring the physical and environmental impacts over the ROW of pipeline system. This paper reports on the development of a methodological approach for environmental change analysis using high resolution satellite images that can help decision making in pipeline systems. Analysis results and maps produced during this work provide an insight into landcover change over the study area and expected to support in on-going pipeline management practices. Two methods, Vegetation index differencing and post classification comparison have been implemented to identify change areas in the Taranaki region of the North Island of New Zealand. Vegetation index differencing with NDVI shows increase or decrease of overall vegetation within the study area. Special focus was given on large area increase and decrease with area threshold value above 0.2 hectare. Detailed analysis of change was conducted with post classification comparison method that uses land cover classification results of year 2010 and 2013. An overall change of 10% has been observed throughout the study area with large area change of approximately 5%. Results obtained from post classification comparison method were further analyzed with 6 focus areas and compared with the existing soil data and rainfall data. The methods adopted during this study are expected to provide a base for environmental change analysis in similar pipeline corridors to support decision making.

scholarly journals TOWARDS AN AUTOMATED FLOOD AREA EXTRACTION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIII-B3-2020 ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
R. G. C. J. Kapilaratne ◽  
S. Kaneta
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Flood Events ◽  
Large Area ◽  
High Resolution Satellite Images ◽  
Catastrophic Impact

Abstract. Flooding is considered as one of the most devastated natural disasters due to its adverse effect on human lives as well as economy. Since more population concentrate towards flood prone areas and frequent occurrence of flood events due to global climate change, there is an urgent need in remote sensing community for faster and reliable inundation mapping technologies to increase the preparedness of population and reduce the catastrophic impact. With the recent advancement in remote sensing technologies and integration capability of deep learning algorithms with remote sensing data makes faster mapping of large area is feasible. Therefore, this study attempted to explore a faster and low cost solution for flood area extraction by integrating convolution neural networks (CNNs) with high resolution (1.5 m) SPOT satellite images. By consider the system requirement as a measure of cost, capabilities (speed and accuracy) of a deeper (ResNet101) and a shallower (MobileNetV2) CNNs on flood mapping were examined and compared. The models were trained and tested with satellite images captured during several flood events occurred in Japan. It is observed from the results that ResNet101 obtained better flood area mapping accuracy than MobileNetV2. Whereas, MobileNetV2 is having much higher capabilities in faster mapping in 0.3 s/km2 with a competitive accuracy and minimal system requirements than ResNet101.

scholarly journals Vehicle Detection and Classification from High Resolution Satellite Images

2014 ◽  
Vol II-1 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Abraham ◽  
M. Sasikumar
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Weather Forecasting ◽  
Vehicle Detection ◽  
Satellite Imaging ◽  
Suitable Alternative ◽  
High Resolution Satellite Images ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
High Resolution Satellite Imagery

In the past decades satellite imagery has been used successfully for weather forecasting, geographical and geological applications. Low resolution satellite images are sufficient for these sorts of applications. But the technological developments in the field of satellite imaging provide high resolution sensors which expands its field of application. Thus the High Resolution Satellite Imagery (HRSI) proved to be a suitable alternative to aerial photogrammetric data to provide a new data source for object detection. Since the traffic rates in developing countries are enormously increasing, vehicle detection from satellite data will be a better choice for automating such systems. In this work, a novel technique for vehicle detection from the images obtained from high resolution sensors is proposed. Though we are using high resolution images, vehicles are seen only as tiny spots, difficult to distinguish from the background. But we are able to obtain a detection rate not less than 0.9. Thereafter we classify the detected vehicles into cars and trucks and find the count of them.

scholarly journals High-Resolution Urban Land Mapping in China from Sentinel 1A/2 Imagery Based on Google Earth Engine

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 752 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongchang Sun ◽  
Ru Xu ◽  
Wenjie Du ◽  
Lei Wang ◽  
Dengsheng Lu
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Optical Data ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Google Earth Engine ◽  
Sar Data ◽  
Sentinel 2

Accurate and timely urban land mapping is fundamental to supporting large area environmental and socio-economic research. Most of the available large-area urban land products are limited to a spatial resolution of 30 m. The fusion of optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data for large-area high-resolution urban land mapping has not yet been widely explored. In this study, we propose a fast and effective urban land extraction method using ascending/descending orbits of Sentinel-1A SAR data and Sentinel-2 MSI (MultiSpectral Instrument, Level 1C) optical data acquired from 1 January 2015 to 30 June 2016. Potential urban land (PUL) was identified first through logical operations on yearly mean and standard deviation composites from a time series of ascending/descending orbits of SAR data. A Yearly Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) maximum and modified Normalized Difference Water Index (MNDWI) mean composite were generated from Sentinel-2 imagery. The slope image derived from SRTM DEM data was used to mask mountain pixels and reduce the false positives in SAR data over these regions. We applied a region-specific threshold on PUL to extract the target urban land (TUL) and a global threshold on the MNDWI mean, and slope image to extract water bodies and high-slope regions. A majority filter with a three by three window was applied on previously extracted results and the main processing was carried out on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform. China was chosen as the testing region to validate the accuracy and robustness of our proposed method through 224,000 validation points randomly selected from high-resolution Google Earth imagery. Additionally, a total of 735 blocks with a size of 900 × 900 m were randomly selected and used to compare our product’s accuracy with the global human settlement layer (GHSL, 2014), GlobeLand30 (2010), and Liu (2015) products. Our method demonstrated the effectiveness of using a fusion of optical and SAR data for large area urban land extraction especially in areas where optical data fail to distinguish urban land from spectrally similar objects. Results show that the average overall, producer’s and user’s accuracies are 88.03%, 94.50% and 82.22%, respectively.

A Novel Region-Based Approach for Automatic Road Extraction from High Resolution Satellite Images

2013 ◽  
Vol 284-287 ◽  
pp. 2998-3003
Author(s):  
Young Gi Byun
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Satellite Image ◽  
Road Surface ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Support Vector Data Description ◽  
Road Extraction ◽  
High Resolution Satellite Images ◽  
High Resolution Satellite Imagery ◽  
One Class Classification

With the constantly increasing public availability of high resolution satellite imagery, interest in automatic road extraction from this imagery has recently increased. Road extraction from high resolution satellite imagery refers to reliable road surface extraction instead of road line extraction because roads in the imagery mostly correspond to an elongated region with a locally constant spectral signature rather than traditional thin lines. This paper proposes a novel automatic road extraction approach that is based on a combination of image segmentation and one-class classification and consists of two main steps. First, the image is segmented using a modified previous segmentation algorithm to achieve more reliable segmentation for road extraction. The key road objects are then automatically extracted from the segmented image to obtain road training samples. Then one-class classification, based on a support vector data description classifier, is carried out to extract the road surface area from the image. The experimental results from a pan-sharpened KOMPSAT-2 satellite image demonstrate the correctness and efficiency of the proposed method for its application to road extraction from high resolution satellite image.

scholarly journals ALGORITHM AND APPLICATION OF GCP-INDEPENDENT BLOCK ADJUSTMENT FOR SUPER LARGE-SCALE DOMESTIC HIGH RESOLUTION OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGERY

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-3 ◽  
pp. 1607-1615
Author(s):  
Y. S. Sun ◽  
L. Zhang ◽  
B. Xu ◽  
Y. Zhang
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Satellite Image ◽  
Optimization Method ◽  
Adjustment Process ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Rank Defect ◽  
And Performance

The accurate positioning of optical satellite image without control is the precondition for remote sensing application and small/medium scale mapping in large abroad areas or with large-scale images. In this paper, aiming at the geometric features of optical satellite image, based on a widely used optimization method of constraint problem which is called Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) and RFM least-squares block adjustment, we propose a GCP independent block adjustment method for the large-scale domestic high resolution optical satellite image – GISIBA (GCP-Independent Satellite Imagery Block Adjustment), which is easy to parallelize and highly efficient. In this method, the virtual "average" control points are built to solve the rank defect problem and qualitative and quantitative analysis in block adjustment without control. The test results prove that the horizontal and vertical accuracy of multi-covered and multi-temporal satellite images are better than 10 m and 6 m. Meanwhile the mosaic problem of the adjacent areas in large area DOM production can be solved if the public geographic information data is introduced as horizontal and vertical constraints in the block adjustment process. Finally, through the experiments by using GF-1 and ZY-3 satellite images over several typical test areas, the reliability, accuracy and performance of our developed procedure will be presented and studied in this paper.

scholarly journals High-Resolution Satellite Imagery to Assess Sargassum Inundation Impacts to Coastal Areas

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Hernandez ◽  
Julio M. Morell ◽  
Roy A. Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Change Detection ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ◽  
Unconsolidated Sediments ◽  
Coastal Vegetation ◽  
Atmospheric Effects ◽  
True Color ◽  
Benthic Composition

AbstractA change detection analysis utilizing Very High-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery was performed to evaluate the changes in benthic composition and coastal vegetation in La Parguera, southwestern Puerto Rico, attributable to the increased influx of pelagic Sargassum spp and its accumulations in cays, bays, inlets and near-shore environments. Satellite imagery was co-registered, corrected for atmospheric effects, and masked for water and land. A Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and an unsupervised classification scheme were applied to the imagery to evaluate the changes in coastal vegetation and benthic composition. These products were used to calculate the differences from 2010 baseline imagery, to potential hurricane impacts (2018 image), and potential Sargassum impacts (2020 image). Results show a negative trend in Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from 2010 to 2020 for the total pixel area of 24%, or 546,446 m2. These changes were also observed in true color images from 2010 to 2020. Changes in the NDVI negative values from 2018 to 2020 were higher, especially for the Isla Cueva site (97%) and were consistent with the field observations and drone surveys conducted since 2018 in the area. The major changes from 2018 and 2020 occurred mainly in unconsolidated sediments (e.g. sand, mud) and submerged aquatic vegetation (e.g. seagrass, algae), which can have similar spectra limiting the differentiation from multi-spectral imagery. Areas prone to Sargassum accumulation were identified using a combination of 2018 and 2020 true color VHR imagery and drone observations. This approach provides a quantifiable method to evaluate Sargassum impacts to the coastal vegetation and benthic composition using change detection of VHR images, and to separate these effects from other extreme events.

scholarly journals Exploring the Potential of High-Resolution Satellite Imagery for the Detection of Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 1213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad M. Raza ◽  
Chris Harding ◽  
Matt Liebman ◽  
Leonor F. Leandro
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Sudden Death ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Sudden Death Syndrome ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
High Resolution Satellite Imagery ◽  
Soybean Diseases

Sudden death syndrome (SDS) is one of the major yield-limiting soybean diseases in the Midwestern United States. Effective management for SDS requires accurate detection in soybean fields. Since traditional scouting methods are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and often destructive, alternative methods to monitor SDS in large soybean fields are needed. This study explores the potential of using high-resolution (3 m) PlanetScope satellite imagery for detection of SDS using the random forest classification algorithm. Image data from blue, green, red, and near-infrared (NIR) spectral bands, the calculated normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), and crop rotation information were used to detect healthy and SDS-infected quadrats in a soybean field experiment with different rotation treatments, located in Boone County, Iowa. Datasets collected during the 2016, 2017, and 2018 soybean growing seasons were analyzed. The results indicate that spectral features, when combined with ground-based information, can detect areas in soybean plots that are at risk for disease, even before foliar symptoms develop. The classification of healthy and diseased soybean quadrats was >75% accurate and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) was >70%. Our results indicate that high-resolution satellite imagery and random forest analyses have the potential to detect SDS in soybean fields, and that this approach may facilitate large-scale monitoring of SDS (and possibly other economically important soybean diseases). It may also be useful for guiding recommendations for site-specific management in current and future seasons.

scholarly journals Automatic 3-D Building Model Reconstruction from Very High Resolution Stereo Satellite Imagery

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 1660
Author(s):  
Partovi ◽  
Fraundorfer ◽  
Bahmanyar ◽  
Huang ◽  
Reinartz
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Missing Values ◽  
Model Reconstruction ◽  
Large Area ◽  
Building Model ◽  
Building Models ◽  
D Model ◽  
Very High

Recent advances in the availability of very high-resolution (VHR) satellite data together withefficient data acquisition and large area coverage have led to an upward trend in their applicationsfor automatic 3-D building model reconstruction which require large-scale and frequent updates,such as disaster monitoring and urban management. Digital Surface Models (DSMs) generatedfrom stereo satellite imagery suffer from mismatches, missing values, or blunders, resulting inrough building shape representations. To handle 3-D building model reconstruction using suchlow-quality DSMs, we propose a novel automatic multistage hybrid method using DSMs togetherwith orthorectified panchromatic (PAN) and pansharpened data (PS) of multispectral (MS) satelliteimagery. The algorithm consists of multiple steps including building boundary extraction anddecomposition, image-based roof type classification, and initial roof parameter computation whichare prior knowledge for the 3-D model fitting step. To fit 3-D models to the normalized DSM(nDSM) and to select the best one, a parameter optimization method based on exhaustive searchis used sequentially in 2-D and 3-D. Finally, the neighboring building models in a building blockare intersected to reconstruct the 3-D model of connecting roofs. All corresponding experimentsare conducted on a dataset including four different areas of Munich city containing 208 buildingswith different degrees of complexity. The results are evaluated both qualitatively and quantitatively.According to the results, the proposed approach can reliably reconstruct 3-D building models, eventhe complex ones with several inner yards and multiple orientations. Furthermore, the proposedapproach provides a high level of automation by limiting the number of primitive roof types and byperforming automatic parameter initialization.

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