scholarly journals Using Landsat 8 Images Along with Google Earth Engine for Investigation the Location of the Crashed Aircrafts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azad Rasul
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Landsat Images ◽  
Green Area ◽  
Google Earth Engine ◽  
Index Value ◽  
Research Period

Remote sensing data and techniques utilized for various purposes including natural disasters such as earthquake as well as flood. The research aims to consume liberates Landsat 8 images for investigating crashed airplanes such as MH370. Overall approximately 300 Landsat images with less than 10% clouds utilized in addition processed through Google Engine Platform. Due to the materials as well as the color of airplane body different from the area which is a plane crashed there, moreover, it should be the characteristics of the plane shapefile different in terms of albedo, temperature as well as vegetation index value. The research observed Landsat 8 data as well as methods utilized in this research, especially, NDVI, albedo in addition to band 4, capable to distinguish between the plane and its surrounding green area. Therefore, our result confirms during the research period, there was no plane on the location as well as MH370 not crashed in this site.

scholarly journals Vegetation Types Mapping Using Multi-Temporal Landsat Images in the Google Earth Engine Platform

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 4683
Author(s):  
Masoumeh Aghababaei ◽  
Ataollah Ebrahimi ◽  
Ali Asghar Naghipour ◽  
Esmaeil Asadi ◽  
Jochem Verrelst
Keyword(s):  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Optimal Time ◽  
Quantitative Detection ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Vegetation Types ◽  
Landsat Images ◽  
Multi Temporal ◽  
Google Earth Engine ◽  
Land Covers

Vegetation Types (VTs) are important managerial units, and their identification serves as essential tools for the conservation of land covers. Despite a long history of Earth observation applications to assess and monitor land covers, the quantitative detection of sparse VTs remains problematic, especially in arid and semiarid areas. This research aimed to identify appropriate multi-temporal datasets to improve the accuracy of VTs classification in a heterogeneous landscape in Central Zagros, Iran. To do so, first the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) temporal profile of each VT was identified in the study area for the period of 2018, 2019, and 2020. This data revealed strong seasonal phenological patterns and key periods of VTs separation. It led us to select the optimal time series images to be used in the VTs classification. We then compared single-date and multi-temporal datasets of Landsat 8 images within the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform as the input to the Random Forest classifier for VTs detection. The single-date classification gave a median Overall Kappa (OK) and Overall Accuracy (OA) of 51% and 64%, respectively. Instead, using multi-temporal images led to an overall kappa accuracy of 74% and an overall accuracy of 81%. Thus, the exploitation of multi-temporal datasets favored accurate VTs classification. In addition, the presented results underline that available open access cloud-computing platforms such as the GEE facilitates identifying optimal periods and multitemporal imagery for VTs classification.

Effect of Locust Invasion and Mitigation Using Remote Sensing Techniques: A Case Study of North Sindh Pakistan

2022 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nasar Ahmad ◽  
Zhenfeng Shao ◽  
Orhan Altan
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Abrupt Decrease ◽  
Computing Platform ◽  
Remote Sensing Techniques ◽  
Processing Techniques

This study comprises the identification of the locust outbreak that happened in February 2020. It is not possible to conduct ground-based surveys to monitor such huge disasters in a timely and adequate manner. Therefore, we used a combination of automatic and manual remote sensing data processing techniques to find out the aftereffects of locust attack effectively. We processed MODIS -normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI ) manually on ENVI and Landsat 8 NDVI using the Google Earth Engine (GEE ) cloud computing platform. We found from the results that, (a) NDVI computation on GEE is more effective, prompt, and reliable compared with the results of manual NDVI computations; (b) there is a high effect of locust disasters in the northern part of Sindh, Thul, Ghari Khairo, Garhi Yaseen, Jacobabad, and Ubauro, which are more vulnerable; and (c) NDVI value suddenly decreased to 0.68 from 0.92 in 2020 using Landsat NDVI and from 0.81 to 0.65 using MODIS satellite imagery. Results clearly indicate an abrupt decrease in vegetation in 2020 due to a locust disaster. That is a big threat to crop yield and food production because it provides a major portion of food chain and gross domestic product for Sindh, Pakistan.

scholarly journals Estimation of Total Suspended Sediment Solid in Porong River Waters Using Multitemporal Satellite Imagery

2021 ◽  
Vol 936 (1) ◽  
pp. 012006
Author(s):  
Z N Ghuvita Hadi ◽  
T Hariyanto ◽  
N Hayati
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Suspended Sediment ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
River Estuary ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Sample Point ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Google Earth Engine

Abstract Monitoring the concentration of Total Suspended Solid (TSS) is one method to determine water quality, because a high TSS value indicates a high level of pollution. Remote sensing data can be used effectively in generating suspended sediment concentrations. Nowdays, Google Earth Engine platform has provided a large collection of remote sensing data. Therefore, this study uses Google Earth Engine which is processed for free and aims to calculate the TSS value in the Kali Porong area. This research was conducted multitemporal in the last ten years, namely from 2013-2021 using multitemporal satellite imagery landsat-8 and sentinel-2 by applying empirical algorithms for calculating TSS. The results of this study are the value of TSS concentration at each sample point and a multitemporal TSS concentration distribution map. The year 2016, 2017, and 2021, the distribution of TSS concentration values was higher than in other years. At the sample point, the lowest TSS concentration value was 16.55 mg/L in 2013. Meanwhile, the highest TSS concentration value of 266.33 mg/L occurred in 2014 precisely in the Porong River estuary area which is the border area between land and water. the sea so that a lot of TSS material is concentrated in the area due to waves and ocean currents.

scholarly journals Assessing the Effect of Training Sampling Design on the Performance of Machine Learning Classifiers for Land Cover Mapping Using Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing Data and Google Earth Engine

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1433
Author(s):  
Shobitha Shetty ◽  
Prasun Kumar Gupta ◽  
Mariana Belgiu ◽  
S. K. Srivastav
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Design ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Machine Learning Classifiers ◽  
Learning Classifiers ◽  
Multi Temporal ◽  
Google Earth Engine

Machine learning classifiers are being increasingly used nowadays for Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) mapping from remote sensing images. However, arriving at the right choice of classifier requires understanding the main factors influencing their performance. The present study investigated firstly the effect of training sampling design on the classification results obtained by Random Forest (RF) classifier and, secondly, it compared its performance with other machine learning classifiers for LULC mapping using multi-temporal satellite remote sensing data and the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform. We evaluated the impact of three sampling methods, namely Stratified Equal Random Sampling (SRS(Eq)), Stratified Proportional Random Sampling (SRS(Prop)), and Stratified Systematic Sampling (SSS) upon the classification results obtained by the RF trained LULC model. Our results showed that the SRS(Prop) method favors major classes while achieving good overall accuracy. The SRS(Eq) method provides good class-level accuracies, even for minority classes, whereas the SSS method performs well for areas with large intra-class variability. Toward evaluating the performance of machine learning classifiers, RF outperformed Classification and Regression Trees (CART), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Relevance Vector Machine (RVM) with a >95% confidence level. The performance of CART and SVM classifiers were found to be similar. RVM achieved good classification results with a limited number of training samples.

Assessment of the State of the Territories of Closed Waste Disposal Facilities by Vegetation Indices

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 30-37
Author(s):  
N.N. Sliusar ◽  
A.P. Belousova ◽  
G.M. Batrakova ◽  
R.D. Garifzyanov ◽  
M. Huber-Humer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Vegetation Cover ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Vegetation Indices ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
The State ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
The Earth

The possibilities of using remote sensing of the Earth data to assess the formation of phytocenoses at reclaimed dumps and landfills are presented. The objects of study are landfills and dumps in the Perm Territory, which differed from each other in the types and timing of reclamation work. The state of the vegetation cover on the reclaimed and self-overgrowing objects was compared with the reference plots with naturally formed herbage of zonal meadow vegetation. The process of reclamation of the territory of closed landfills was assessed by the presence and homogeneity of the vegetation layer and by the values of the vegetation index NDVI. To identify the dynamics of changes in the vegetation cover, we used multi-temporal satellite images from the open resources of Google Earth and images in the visible and infrared ranges of the Landsat-5/TM and Landsat-8/OLI satellites. It is shown that the data of remote sensing of the Earth, in particular the analysis of vegetation indices, can be used to assess the dynamics of overgrowing of territories of reclaimed waste disposal facilities, as well as an additional and cost-effective method for monitoring the restoration of previously disturbed territories.

scholarly journals Garlic and Winter Wheat Identification Based on Active and Passive Satellite Imagery and the Google Earth Engine in Northern China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 3539
Author(s):  
Haifeng Tian ◽  
Jie Pei ◽  
Jianxi Huang ◽  
Xuecao Li ◽  
Jian Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Winter Wheat ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Kappa Coefficient ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Winter Crops ◽  
Sentinel 2

Garlic and winter wheat are major economic and grain crops in China, and their boundaries have increased substantially in recent decades. Updated and accurate garlic and winter wheat maps are critical for assessing their impacts on society and the environment. Remote sensing imagery can be used to monitor spatial and temporal changes in croplands such as winter wheat and maize. However, to our knowledge, few studies are focusing on garlic area mapping. Here, we proposed a method for coupling active and passive satellite imagery for the identification of both garlic and winter wheat in Northern China. First, we used passive satellite imagery (Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 images) to extract winter crops (garlic and winter wheat) with high accuracy. Second, we applied active satellite imagery (Sentinel-1 images) to distinguish garlic from winter wheat. Third, we generated a map of the garlic and winter wheat by coupling the above two classification results. For the evaluation of classification, the overall accuracy was 95.97%, with a kappa coefficient of 0.94 by eighteen validation quadrats (3 km by 3 km). The user’s and producer’s accuracies of garlic are 95.83% and 95.85%, respectively; and for the winter wheat, these two accuracies are 97.20% and 97.45%, respectively. This study provides a practical exploration of targeted crop identification in mixed planting areas using multisource remote sensing data.

scholarly journals Google Earth Engine for the Detection of Soiling on Photovoltaic Solar Panels in Arid Environments

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitesh Supe ◽  
Ram Avtar ◽  
Deepak Singh ◽  
Ankita Gupta ◽  
Ali P. Yunus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Surface ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Bare Soil ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Arid Environments ◽  
Solar Panels ◽  
Google Earth Engine ◽  
Sand Deposition

The soiling of solar panels from dry deposition affects the overall efficiency of power output from solar power plants. This study focuses on the detection and monitoring of sand deposition (wind-blown dust) on photovoltaic (PV) solar panels in arid regions using multitemporal remote sensing data. The study area is located in Bhadla solar park of Rajasthan, India which receives numerous sandstorms every year, carried by westerly and north-westerly winds. This study aims to use Google Earth Engine (GEE) in monitoring the soiling phenomenon on PV panels. Optical imageries archived in the GEE platform were processed for the generation of various sand indices such as the normalized differential sand index (NDSI), the ratio normalized differential soil index (RNDSI), and the dry bare soil index (DBSI). Land surface temperature (LST) derived from Landsat 8 thermal bands were also used to correlate with sand indices and to observe the pattern of sand accumulation in the target region. Additionally, high-resolution PlanetScope images were used to quantitatively validate the sand indices. Our study suggests that the use of freely available satellite data with semiautomated processing on GEE can be a useful alternative to manual methods. The developed method can provide near real-time monitoring of soiling on PV panels cost-effectively. This study concludes that the DBSI method has a comparatively higher potential (89.6% Accuracy, 0.77 Kappa) in the detection of sand deposition on PV panels as compared to other indices. The findings of this study can be useful to solar energy companies in the development of an operational plan for the cleaning of PV panels regularly.

scholarly journals Modeling regional evaporation through ANFIS incorporated solely with remote sensing data

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 6153-6192
Author(s):  
F.-J. Chang ◽  
W. Sun
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Surface ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Data Allocation ◽  
Remotely Sensed Data ◽  
Estimation Model ◽  
Landsat Images ◽  
Inference System ◽  
Sensing Data

Abstract. The study aims to model regional evaporation that possesses the ability to present the spatial distribution of evaporation across the whole Taiwan by the adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) based solely on remote sensing data. The remote sensing data used in this study consist of Landsat image products including Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) and land surface temperature (LST). The model construction is designed through two types of data allocation (temporal and spatial) driven with the same ten-year data of EVI and LST derived from Landsat images. Evidences indicate the estimation model based solely on remotely sensed data can effectively detect the spatial variation of evaporation and appropriately capture the evaporation trend with acceptable errors of about 1 mm day−1. The results also demonstrate the composite of EVI and LST input to the proposed estimation model improves the accuracy of estimated evaporation values as compared with the model using LST as the only input, which reveals EVI indeed benefits the estimation process. The results suggest Model-T (temporal input allocation) is suitable for making island-wide evaporation estimation while Model-S (spatial input allocation) is suitable for making evaporation estimation at ungauged sites. An island-wide evaporation map for the whole study area (Taiwan Island) is then derived. It concludes the proposed ANFIS model incorporated solely with remote sensing data can reasonably well generate evaporation estimation and is reliable as well as easily applicable for operational estimation of evaporation over large areas where the network of ground-based meteorological gauging stations is not dense enough or readily available.

scholarly journals The NDVI algorithm utilization on the google earth engine platform to monitor changes in forest density in mining area

2021 ◽  
Vol 886 (1) ◽  
pp. 012100
Author(s):  
Munajat Nursaputra ◽  
Siti Halimah Larekeng ◽  
Nasri ◽  
Andi Siady Hamzah
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Aerial Images ◽  
Forest Monitoring ◽  
Forest Density ◽  
Google Earth Engine

Abstract Periodic forest monitoring needs to be done to avoid forest degradation. In general, forest monitoring can be conducted manually (field surveys) or using technological innovations such as remote sensing data derived from aerial images (drone results) or cloud computing-based image processing. Currently, remote sensing technology provides large-scale forest monitoring using multispectral sensors and various vegetation index processing algorithms. This study aimed to evaluate the use of the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform, a geospatial dataset platform, in the Vale Indonesia mining concession area to improve accountable forest monitoring. This platform integrates a set of programming methods with a publicly accessible time-series database of satellite imaging services. The method used is NDVI processing on Landsat multispectral images in time series format, which allows for the description of changes in forest density levels over time. The results of this NDVI study conducted on the GEE platform have the potential to be used as a tool and additional supporting data for monitoring forest conditions and improvement in mining regions.

scholarly journals A Classification of Tidal Flat Wetland Vegetation Combining Phenological Features with Google Earth Engine

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 443
Author(s):  
Nan Wu ◽  
Runhe Shi ◽  
Wei Zhuo ◽  
Chao Zhang ◽  
Bingchan Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tidal Flat ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Wetland Vegetation ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Harmonic Model ◽  
Temporal Features ◽  
Google Earth Engine ◽  
Time Series Images

The composition and distribution of wetland vegetation is critical for ecosystem diversity and sustainable development. However, tidal flat wetland environments are complex, and obtaining effective satellite imagery is challenging due to the high cloud coverage. Moreover, it is difficult to acquire phenological feature data and extract species-level wetland vegetation information by using only spectral data or individual images. To solve these limitations, statistical features, temporal features, and phenological features of multiple Landsat 8 time-series images obtained via the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform were compared to extract species-level wetland vegetation information from Chongming Island, China. The results indicated that (1) a harmonic model obtained the phenological characteristics of wetland vegetation better than the raw vegetation index (VI) and the Savitzky–Golay (SG) smoothing method; (2) classification based on the combination of the three features provided the highest overall accuracy (85.54%), and the phenological features (represented by the amplitude and phase of the harmonic model) had the greatest impact on the classification; and (3) the classification result from the senescence period was more accurate than that from the green period, but the annual mapping result on all seasons was the most accurate. The method described in this study can be applied to overcome the impacts of the complex environment in tidal flat wetlands and to effectively classify wetland vegetation species using GEE. This study could be used as a reference for the analysis of the phenological features of other areas or vegetation types.

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