Hazardous Noxious Substance Detection Based on Ground Experiment and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

With an increase in the overseas maritime transport of hazardous and noxious substances (HNSs), HNS-related spill accidents are on the rise. Thus, there is a need to completely understand the physical and chemical properties of HNSs. This can be achieved through establishing a library of spectral characteristics with respect to wavelengths from visible and near-infrared (VNIR) bands to shortwave infrared (SWIR) wavelengths. In this study, a ground HNS measurement experiment was conducted for artificially spilled HNS by using two hyperspectral cameras at VNIR and SWIR wavelengths. Representative HNSs such as styrene and toluene were spilled into an outdoor pool and their spectral characteristics were obtained. The relative ratio of HNS to seawater decreased and increased at 550 nm and showed different constant ratios at the SWIR wavelength. Noise removal and dimensional compression procedures were conducted by applying principal component analysis on HNS hyperspectral images. Pure HNS and seawater endmember spectra were extracted using four spectral mixture techniques—N-FINDR, pixel purity index (PPI), independent component analysis (ICA), and vertex component analysis (VCA). The accuracy of detection values of styrene and toluene through the comparison of the abundance fraction were 99.42% and 99.56%, respectively. The results of this study are useful for spectrum-based HNS detection in marine HNS accidents.

Application of Spectral Mixture Analysis to Vessel Monitoring Using Airborne Hyperspectral Data

As marine transportation has increased in coastal regions, maritime accidents associated with vessels have steadily increased. Remotely sensed satellite or airborne images can aid rapid vessel monitoring over wide areas at high resolutions. In this study, airborne hyperspectral experiments were performed to detect marine vessels mainly including fishing boat and yacht by applying pixel-based mixture techniques and to estimate the size of the vessels through an objective ellipse fitting method. Various spectral libraries of marine objects and seawaters were constructed through in-situ experiments for spectral analysis of the internal structures of vessels. The hyperspectral images were dimensionally reduced through principal component analysis. Several hyperspectral mixture algorithms, such as N-FINDR, pixel purity index (PPI), independent component analysis (ICA), and vertex component analysis (VCA), were used for the detection of vessels. The N-FINDR and VCA techniques presented a total of 14 vessels, the ICA technique detected seven vessels, and the PPI technique detected two vessels. The pixel-based probability of detection (POD) and false alarm ratio (FAR) for all 14 vessels were 96.40% and 4.30%, respectively. The sizes of the vessels were estimated by extracting the boundaries of the vessels through a two-dimensional gradient and applying the ellipse fitting method. Compared with the digital mapping camera (DMC) images with resolutions of 0.10 m, the root-mean-square errors of the length and width of the vessels were approximately 1.19 m and 0.81 m, respectively. The application of spectral mixing methods provided a high probability of detecting the objects, as well as the overall structures of the decks of the vessels.

ASSESSING AND COMPARING THE PERFORMANCE OF ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION METHODS IN MULTIPLE CHANGE DETECTION USING HYPERSPECTRAL DATA

Endmember extraction is a process to identify the hidden pure source signals from the mixture. Endmember finding has become increasingly important in hyperspectral data exploitation because endmembers can be used to specify unknown particular spectral classes. This paper evaluates the change detection problem in bi-temporal hyperspectral remote sensing images using the unmixing process. A complete spectral unmixing process contains estimating the number of endmembers, endmember extraction and abundance estimation. Endmember extraction is a vital step in spectral unmixing of hyperspectral images. Hyperspectral change detection by unmixing has the potential to provide subpixel information from hyperspectral images. In this study, four methods including Simplex Identification via variable Splitting and Augmented Lagrangian (SISAL), N-finder algorithm (N-FINDR), Vertex Component Analysis (VCA), and Fast algorithm for linearly Unmixing (FUN) are used to produce multiple change detection maps. This paper explores and compares the performance of these methods in multiple change detection. The empirical results reveal the superiority of the FUN method in providing multiple change map with an overall accuracy of 87% and a kappa coefficient of 0.70.

Hyperspectral Endmember Extraction Using Spatially Weighted Simplex Strategy

Spatial information is increasingly becoming a vital factor in the field of hyperspectral endmember extraction, since it takes into consideration the spatial correlation of pixels, which generally involves jointing spectral information for preprocessing and/or endmember extraction in hyperspectral imagery (HSI). Generally, simplex-based endmember extraction algorithms (EEAs) identify endmembers without considering spatial attributes, and the spatial preprocessing strategy is an independently executed module that can provide spatial information for the endmember search process. Despite this interest, to the best of our knowledge, no one has studied the integration framework of the spatial information-embedded simplex for hyperspectral endmember extraction. In this paper, we propose a spatially weighted simplex strategy, called SWSS, for hyperspectral endmember extraction that investigates a novel integration framework of the spatial information-embedded simplex for identifying endmember. Specifically, the SWSS generates the spatial weight scalar of each pixel by determining its corresponding spatial neighborhood correlations for weighting itself within the simplex framework to regularize the selection of the endmembers. The SWSS could be implemented in the traditional simplex-based EEAs, such as vertex component analysis (VCA), to introduce spatial information into the data simplex framework without the computational complexity excessively increasing or endmember extraction accuracy loss. Based on spectral angle distance (SAD) and root-mean-square-error (RMSE) evaluation criteria, experimental results on both synthetic and C u p r i t e real hyperspectral datasets indicate that the simplex-based EEA re-implemented by the SWSS has a significant improvement on endmember extraction performance over the techniques on their own and without re-implementing.

Application of spatially related MRF model in NMF hyperspectral unmixing

Aiming at Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF)’s problem of initialization and "local minima" in hyperspectral unmixing, a NMF linear unmixing algorithm with spatial correlation constrains (SCNMF) based on Markov Random Field (MRF) was proposed. Firstly, Hyperspectral Signal identification by minimum error (HySime) method was adopted to estimate the number of endmembers, initialized endmember matrix and abundance matrix by Vertex Component Analysis (VCA) and Fully Constrained Least Squares (FCLS) respectively. then established energy function to depict the spatial distribution characteristics of ground objects by MRF model. Finally, spatial correlation constraint based on MRF model and NMF standard objective function were combined in the form of altemating iteration to estimate endmember spectrum and abundance of hyperspectral image. Theoretical analysis and experimental results indicated that, the endmember decomposition precision of SCNMF is 10.6% higher than that of Minimum Volume Constrained NMF (MVC-NMF), 12.3% higher than that of Piecewise Smoothness NMF with Sparseness Constraints(PSNMFSC), 14.1% higher than that of NMF with Alternating Projected Subgradients(APS-NMF); the abundance decomposition precision of SCNMF is 14.4% higher than that of MVC-NMF, 15.9% higher than that of PSNMFSC, 15.3% higher than that of APS-NMF.The proposed SCNMF can remedy NMF's deficiency in describing spatial correlation characteristics, and decrease spatial energy distribution error.

Mimicking Multimodal Contrast with Vertex Component Analysis of Hyperspectral CARS Images

We show the applicability of vertex component analysis (VCA) of hyperspectral CARS images in generating a similar contrast profile to that obtained in “multimodal imaging” that uses signals from three separate nonlinear optical techniques. Using an atherosclerotic rabbit aorta test image, we show that the VCA algorithm provides pseudocolor contrast that is comparable to multimodal imaging, thus suggesting that under certain conditions much of the information gleaned from a multimodal nonlinear optical approach can be sufficiently extracted from the CARS hyperspectral stack itself. This is useful for unsupervised contrast generation on hyperspectral CARS implementations such as multiplex CARS that may not have multimodal capabilities. The utility of VCA as a quantitative analysis tool in CARS is also addressed.