Hyperspectral vegetation identification utilizing polynomial fitting for dimensionality reduction

John D. van der Laan; Brian J. Redman; Dylan Z. Anderson; R. Derek West; David Yocky

doi:10.1117/12.2558172

15 May 2020 Hyperspectral vegetation identification utilizing polynomial fitting for dimensionality reduction

John D. van der Laan, Brian J. Redman, Dylan Z. Anderson, R. Derek West, David Yocky

Proceedings Volume 11416, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Sensing XXI; 114160S (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2558172
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

Identification of vegetation species and type is important in many chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive sensing applications. For instance, emergence of non-climax species in an area may be indicative of anthropogenic activity which can complement prompt signatures for underground nuclear explosion detection and localization. To explore signatures of underground nuclear explosions, we collected high spatial resolution (10 cm) hyperspectral data from an unmanned aerial system at a legacy underground nuclear explosion test site and its surrounds. These data consist of 274 visible and near-infrared wavebands over 4.3 km² of high desert terrain along with high spatial resolution (2.5 cm) RGB context imagery. Previous work has shown that a vegetation spectral derivative can be more indicative of species than the measured value of each band. However, applying a spectral derivative amplifies any noise in the spectrum and reduces the benefit of the derivative analysis. Fitting the spectra with a polynomial can provide the slope information (derivative) without amplifying noise. In this work, we simultaneously capture slope and curvature information and reduce the dimensionality of remotely sensed hyperspectral imaging data. This is performed by employing a 2^nd order polynomial fit across spectral bands of interest. We then compare the classification accuracy of a support vector machine classifier fit to the polynomial dimensionality reduction technique and the same support vector machine fit to the same number of components from principle component analysis.

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John D. van der Laan, Brian J. Redman, Dylan Z. Anderson, R. Derek West, and David Yocky "Hyperspectral vegetation identification utilizing polynomial fitting for dimensionality reduction", Proc. SPIE 11416, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives (CBRNE) Sensing XXI, 114160S (15 May 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2558172

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Vegetation

Principal component analysis

Image segmentation

Hyperspectral imaging

Scene classification

Spatial resolution

Near infrared

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