Review of Spectral Indices for Urban Remote Sensing

2021 ◽  
Vol 87 (7) ◽  
pp. 513-524
Author(s):  
Akib Javed ◽  
Qimin Cheng ◽  
Hao Peng ◽  
Orhan Altan ◽  
Yan Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Spectral Indices ◽  
Urban Dynamics ◽  
Spectral Bands ◽  
Search Terms ◽  
Nighttime Lights ◽  
Urban Remote Sensing

Urban spectral indices have made promising improvements in the last two decades in urban land use land cover studies through mapping, estimation, change detection, time-series analyzing, urban dynamics, monitoring, modeling, and so on. Remote sensing spectral indices are unsupervised, unbiased, rapid, scalable, and quantitative in information extraction. Hence, we aimed to summarize the most relevant urban spectral indices by focusing on multispectral, thermal, and nighttime lights indices. We use the search terms "urban index", "built-up index", "normalized difference built-up area (NDBI )", "impervious surface index", and "spectral urban index" to collect relevant literature from the "Web of Science Core Collection" database. We found that all urban spectral indices developed since 2003, except NDBI. This review will help understand the applications of urban spectral indices, the selection of indices based on available spectral bands, and their merits and demerits.

Reviewing the Pertinence of Sentinel-1 SAR for Urban Land Use Land Cover Classification

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 529-535
Author(s):  
Dan Abudu ◽  
Nigar Sultana Parvin ◽  
Geoffrey Andogah
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Land Cover Classification ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Sensing Technology

Conventional approaches for urban land use land cover classification and quantification of land use changes have often relied on the ground surveys and urban censuses of urban surface properties. Advent of Remote Sensing technology supporting metric to centimetric spatial resolutions with simultaneous wide coverage, significantly reduced huge operational costs previously encountered using ground surveys. Weather, sensor’s spatial resolution and the complex compositions of urban areas comprising concrete, metallic, water, bare- and vegetation-covers, limits Remote Sensing ability to accurately discriminate urban features. The launch of Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar, which operates at metric resolution and microwave frequencies evades the weather limitations and has been reported to accurately quantify urban compositions. This paper assessed the feasibility of Sentinel-1 SAR data for urban land use land cover classification by reviewing research papers that utilised these data. The review found that since 2014, 11 studies have specifically utilised the datasets.

scholarly journals Detailed Urban Land Use Land Cover Classification at the Metropolitan Scale Using a Three-Layer Classification Scheme

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (14) ◽  
pp. 3120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoyin Cai ◽  
Huiqun Ren ◽  
Liuzhong Yang ◽  
Ning Zhang ◽  
Mingyi Du ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Classification Scheme ◽  
Urban Land Use ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Large Urban Area ◽  
Object Based ◽  
Medium Resolution ◽  
Very High

Urban Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) information is essential for urban and environmental management. It is, however, very difficult to automatically extract detailed urban LULC information from remote sensing imagery, especially for a large urban area. Medium resolution imagery, such as Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data, cannot uncover detailed LULC information. Further, very high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery, such as IKONOS and QuickBird data, can only be applied to a small area, largely due to the data unavailability and high computation cost. As a result, little research has been conducted to extract detailed urban LULC information for a large urban area. This study, therefore, developed a three-layer classification scheme for deriving detailedurban LULC information by integrating newly launched Chinese GF-1 (medium resolution) and GF-2 (very high resolution) satellite imagery and synthetically incorporating geometry, texture, and spectral information through multi-resolution image segmentation and object-based image classification (OBIA). Homogeneous urban LULC types such as water bodies or large areas of vegetation could be derived from GF-1 imagery with 16 m and 8 m spatial resolutions, while heterogeneous urban LULC types such as industrial buildings, residential buildings, and roads could be extracted from GF-2 imagery with 3.2 m and 0.8 m spatial resolutions. The multi-resolution segmentation method and a random forest algorithm were employed to perform image segmentation and object-based image classification, respectively. An analysis of the results suggests an overall accuracy of 0.89 and 0.87 were achieved for the second and third level urban LULC classification maps, respectively. Therefore, the three-layer classification scheme has the potential to derive high accuracy urban LULC information through integrating medium and high-resolution remote sensing imagery.

scholarly journals A Soft Computing Approach for Selecting and Combining Spectral Bands

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 2267
Author(s):  
Juan F. H. Albarracín ◽  
Rafael S. Oliveira ◽  
Marina Hirota ◽  
Jefersson A. dos Santos ◽  
Ricardo da S. Torres
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Soft Computing ◽  
Optimization Problems ◽  
Multispectral Images ◽  
Spectral Indices ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Classification Problems ◽  
Spectral Bands ◽  
Classification Tasks ◽  
Computing Approach

We introduce a soft computing approach for automatically selecting and combining indices from remote sensing multispectral images that can be used for classification tasks. The proposed approach is based on a Genetic-Programming (GP) framework, a technique successfully used in a wide variety of optimization problems. Through GP, it is possible to learn indices that maximize the separability of samples from two different classes. Once the indices specialized for all the pairs of classes are obtained, they are used in pixelwise classification tasks. We used the GP-based solution to evaluate complex classification problems, such as those that are related to the discrimination of vegetation types within and between tropical biomes. Using time series defined in terms of the learned spectral indices, we show that the GP framework leads to superior results than other indices that are used to discriminate and classify tropical biomes.

scholarly journals Monitoring the Foliar Nutrients Status of Mango Using Spectroscopy-Based Spectral Indices and PLSR-Combined Machine Learning Models

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 641
Author(s):  
Gopal Ramdas Mahajan ◽  
Bappa Das ◽  
Dayesh Murgaokar ◽  
Ittai Herrmann ◽  
Katja Berger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Partial Least Square Regression ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Spectral Indices ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Leaf Nutrients ◽  
Machine Learning Models

Conventional methods of plant nutrient estimation for nutrient management need a huge number of leaf or tissue samples and extensive chemical analysis, which is time-consuming and expensive. Remote sensing is a viable tool to estimate the plant’s nutritional status to determine the appropriate amounts of fertilizer inputs. The aim of the study was to use remote sensing to characterize the foliar nutrient status of mango through the development of spectral indices, multivariate analysis, chemometrics, and machine learning modeling of the spectral data. A spectral database within the 350–1050 nm wavelength range of the leaf samples and leaf nutrients were analyzed for the development of spectral indices and multivariate model development. The normalized difference and ratio spectral indices and multivariate models–partial least square regression (PLSR), principal component regression, and support vector regression (SVR) were ineffective in predicting any of the leaf nutrients. An approach of using PLSR-combined machine learning models was found to be the best to predict most of the nutrients. Based on the independent validation performance and summed ranks, the best performing models were cubist (R2 ≥ 0.91, the ratio of performance to deviation (RPD) ≥ 3.3, and the ratio of performance to interquartile distance (RPIQ) ≥ 3.71) for nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc, SVR (R2 ≥ 0.88, RPD ≥ 2.73, RPIQ ≥ 3.31) for calcium, iron, copper, boron, and elastic net (R2 ≥ 0.95, RPD ≥ 4.47, RPIQ ≥ 6.11) for magnesium and sulfur. The results of the study revealed the potential of using hyperspectral remote sensing data for non-destructive estimation of mango leaf macro- and micro-nutrients. The developed approach is suggested to be employed within operational retrieval workflows for precision management of mango orchard nutrients.

scholarly journals Land use land cover change in Kashmir Himalaya: Linking remote sensing with an indicator based DPSIR approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 107447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rehana Rasool ◽  
Abida Fayaz ◽  
Mifta ul Shafiq ◽  
Harmeet Singh ◽  
Pervez Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Land Cover Change ◽  
Land Use Land Cover ◽  
Kashmir Himalaya ◽  
Dpsir Approach
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