The modern optical satellite sensors capture images in stereo and tri-stereo acquisition modes. This allows reconstruction of high-resolution (30-70 cm) topography from the satellite data. However, numerous areas on the Earth exhibit complex topography with a lot of “discontinuities”. One case is tectonic fault sites, which form steep topographic escarpments enclosing narrow, deep corridors that mask parts of the ground. Built with common approaches (stereo or tri-stereo), a digital surface model (DSM) would not recover the topography in these masked zones. In this work, we have settled on a new methodology, based on the combination of multiple satellite Pleiades images taken with different geometries of acquisition (pitch and roll angles), with the purpose to generate fully-resolved DSMs at very high-resolution (50 cm). We have explored which configurations of satellites (i.e., number of images and ranges of pitch and roll angles) allow to best measure the topography inside deep and narrow canyons. We have collected seventeen Pleiades Images with different configurations over the Valley of Fire fault zone, USA, where the fault topography is complex. We have also measured sixteen ground control points (GCPs) in the zone. From all possible combinations of 2 to 17 Pleiades images, we have selected 150 combinations and have generated the corresponding DSMs. The calculations are done by solving an energy minimization problem that searches for a disparity map minimizing the energy, which depends on the likelihood for pixels to belong to a unique point in 3D as well as regularization terms. We have statistically studied which combinations of images deliver DSMs with the best surface coverage, as well as the lowest uncertainties on geolocalisation and elevation measures, by using the GCPs. Our first results suggest that an exceeding time between our acquisitions leads to DSM with a low covered area. We conclude that Stereo and Tri-Stereo acquisition in one-single pass of the satellite will systematically generate a better DSM than multidate acquisition. We also conclude that in some cases, multi-date acquisitions with 7-8 images can improve the DSM robustness compared to multi-date acquisitions with fewer images.
In this paper, we cover a decade of research in the field of spectral-spatial classification in hyperspectral remote
sensing. While the very rich spectral information is usually used through pixel-wise classification in order to
recognize the physical properties of the sensed material, the spatial information, with a constantly increasing
resolution, provides insightful features to analyze the geometrical structures present in the picture. This is
especially important for the analysis of urban areas, while this helps reducing the classification noise in other
cases. The very high dimension of hyperspectral data is a very challenging issue when it comes to classification.
Support Vector Machines are nowadays widely aknowledged as a first choice solution. In parallel, catching the
spatial information is also very challenging. Mathematical morphology provides adequate tools: granulometries
(the morphological profile) for feature extraction, advanced filters for the definition of adaptive neighborhoods,
the following natural step being an actual segmentation of the data. In order to merge spectral and spatial
information, different strategies can be designed: data fusion at the feature level or decision fusion combining
the results of a segmentation on the one hand and the result of a pixel wise classification on the other hand.
Conference Committee Involvement (11)
High-Performance Computing in Geoscience and Remote Sensing
13 September 2018 | Berlin, Germany
Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing
10 September 2018 | Berlin, Germany
High-Performance Computing in Geoscience and Remote Sensing
12 September 2017 | Warsaw, Poland
High-Performance Computing in Geoscience and Remote Sensing
28 September 2016 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom
High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing
21 September 2015 | Toulouse, France
High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing
22 September 2014 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing III
25 September 2013 | Dresden, Germany
Satellite Data Compression, Communications, and Processing IX
26 August 2013 | San Diego, California, United States
High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing
26 September 2012 | Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Satellite Data Compression, Communications, and Processing VIII
12 August 2012 | San Diego, California, United States
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