scholarly journals Mapping Urban Impervious Surfaces by Using Spectral Mixture Analysis and Spectral Indices

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenliang Li
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Feature Space ◽  
Impervious Surface ◽  
Spectral Mixture Analysis ◽  
Impervious Surfaces ◽  
Spectral Indices ◽  
Mixture Analysis ◽  
Comparable Performance ◽  
Fayette County ◽  
Spectral Mixture

Impervious surface is the major component of urban areas, and it has been widely considered as the key for assessing the degree of urban sprawl. While the effectiveness of applying spectral mixture analysis (SMA) and spectral indices in mapping urban impervious surface has been proved, most studies have relied either on SMA or spectral indices without considering both. In this study, the SMA and spectral indices were integrated together to map impervious surfaces distributions in both Milwaukee County in the Wisconsin State and Fayette County in the Kentucky State. Specifically, spectral indices were used for identifying major land covers. Two-dimensional feature space plots were generated by calculated spectral indices images for endmember selection and extraction. Linear constrained SMA was finally applied to quantify the fractional impervious surfaces. Research results indicate that the proposed method has achieved a promising accuracy, and better performance was achieved in less developed areas than the developed areas. Moreover, a comparative analysis shows that the proposed method performs better than the conventional method in both the whole study area and the developed areas, and a comparable performance has been achieved in the less developed areas.

scholarly journals Extraction of High-Precision Urban Impervious Surfaces from Sentinel-2 Multispectral Imagery via Modified Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudong Xu ◽  
Jin Liu ◽  
Jianhui Xu
Keyword(s):  
High Precision ◽  
Impervious Surface ◽  
Spectral Mixture Analysis ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Impervious Surfaces ◽  
Mixture Analysis ◽  
Spectral Bands ◽  
Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis ◽  
Sentinel 2A ◽  
Spectral Mixture

This study explores the performance of Sentinel-2A Multispectral Instrument (MSI) imagery for extracting urban impervious surface using a modified linear spectral mixture analysis (MLSMA) method. Sentinel-2A MSI provided 10 m red, green, blue, and near-infrared spectral bands, and 20 m shortwave infrared spectral bands, which were used to extract impervious surfaces. We aimed to extract urban impervious surfaces at a spatial resolution of 10 m in the main urban area of Guangzhou, China. In MLSMA, a built-up image was first extracted from the normalized difference built-up index (NDBI) using the Otsu’s method; the high-albedo, low-albedo, vegetation, and soil fractions were then estimated using conventional linear spectral mixture analysis (LSMA). The LSMA results were post-processed to extract high-precision impervious surface, vegetation, and soil fractions by integrating the built-up image and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). The performance of MLSMA was evaluated using Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) imagery. Experimental results revealed that MLSMA can extract the high-precision impervious surface fraction at 10 m with Sentinel-2A imagery. The 10 m impervious surface map of Sentinel-2A is capable of recovering more detail than the 30 m map of Landsat 8. In the Sentinel-2A impervious surface map, continuous roads and the boundaries of buildings in urban environments were clearly identified.

scholarly journals Improving Urban Impervious Surfaces Mapping through Integrating Statistical Methods and Spectral Mixture Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 2474
Author(s):  
Wenliang Li
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Impervious Surface ◽  
New Method ◽  
Spectral Mixture Analysis ◽  
Impervious Surfaces ◽  
Mixture Analysis ◽  
Urban Impervious Surface ◽  
Land Covers ◽  
Spectral Mixture ◽  
Three Components

Impervious surfaces have been widely considered as the key indicator for evaluating urbanization and environmental quality. As one of the most widely applied methods, spectral mixture analysis (SMA) has been commonly used for mapping urban impervious surface fractions. When implementing SMA, the original multispectral remote-sensing reflectance images are served as the foundation and key to successful SMA. However, the limited spectral variances among different land covers from the original reflectance images make it challenging in information extraction and results in unsatisfactory mapping results. To address this issue, a new method has been proposed in this study to improve urban impervious surface mapping through integrating statistical methods and SMA. In particular, two traditional statistical methods, principal component analysis (PCA) and minimum noise fraction rotation (MNF) were applied to highlight the spectral variances among different land covers. Three endmember classes (impervious surface, soil, and vegetation) and corresponding spectra were identified and extracted from the vertices of the 2-D space plots generated by the first three components of each of the statistical analysis methods, PCA and MNF. A new dataset was generated by stacking the first three components of the PCA and MNF (in a total of six components), and a fully constrained linear SMA was implemented to map the fractional impervious surfaces. Results indicate that a promising performance has been achieved by the proposed new method with the systematic error (SE) of −3.45% and mean absolute error (MAE) of 11.52%. Comparative analysis results also show a much better performance achieved by the proposed statistical method-based SMA than the conventional SMA.

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