Multi-resolution analysis of MODIS and ASTER satellite data for water classification

Corina Alecu; Simona Oancea; Emily Bryant

doi:10.1117/12.649848

31 October 2005 Multi-resolution analysis of MODIS and ASTER satellite data for water classification

Corina Alecu, Simona Oancea, Emily Bryant

Proceedings Volume 5983, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology V; 59831Z (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.649848
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2005, Bruges, Belgium

Abstract

In Romania there are many areas flooded every year. The estimation of the surfaces covered by water in the post-crisis periods is of real use for the decision makers at all levels. Due to the constraint that high spatial resolution satellite images are low temporal resolution, there exists a need for a reliable method to obtain accurate information from medium resolution data, for example, MODIS satellite images. The overall goal of this paper is to classify MODIS data to get an estimate of water surface area. To develop the classification technique, the strategy was to obtain MODIS and ASTER data acquired at the same time over the same location, and use the ASTER data as "ground truth". For this study, two lakes in the Bihor County of Romania were chosen and MODIS and ASTER data from October 31, 2002 were utilized. The ASTER data were used to create a detailed water mask to be used as ground truth for the MODIS water classification. The percent water image derived from ASTER was superimposed on the MODIS image. A supervised classification for water was performed on the 3-band MODIS image using the feature space algorithm. The water surface area as measured from the MODIS classification was about 16% more than the ASTER ground truth-value. This approach provided useful information concerning the water classification from different resolution data that could help in the estimation of water surface area from MODIS imagery.

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Corina Alecu, Simona Oancea, and Emily Bryant "Multi-resolution analysis of MODIS and ASTER satellite data for water classification", Proc. SPIE 5983, Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring, GIS Applications, and Geology V, 59831Z (31 October 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.649848

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