This work addresses the topic of flow direction and flow accumulation simulations in urban areas over digital surface models derived from lightdetection and ranging (LiDAR) data and multispectral high-resolution imag...
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This work addresses the topic of flow direction and flow accumulation simulations in urban areas over digital surface models derived from lightdetection and ranging (LiDAR) data and multispectral high-resolution imagery. LiDAR data are very dense point clouds that include many objects that, in a 2 1/2-dimensional model, may become false obstacles for runoff, such as power lines or treetops. The presence of such obstacles is a problem for the flow paths simulation, especially in urban areas. We describe a methodology to produce a surface model more suitable for runoff modeling, by filtering objects that are above the surface and should not influence the flow paths. In a first step, thin obstacles are suppressed by applying mathematical morphology to a raster surface model. In a second step, satellite multispectral data and LiDAR data are classified using a support vector machine to identify trees, which are also removed from the digital model, and produce a more coherent surface model for runoff simulation. To simulate and evaluate the results, the flow-routing algorithm Dinfinity was used. The results show that the filtering is necessary to achieve a better characterization of runoff paths and allows identifying places where runoff may accumulate, causing floods or other problems. (C) 2014 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
The main aim of this paper is to propose a statistical indicator for wind shear prediction from lightdetection and ranging (LIDAR) observational data. Accurate warning signal of wind shear is particularly important f...
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The main aim of this paper is to propose a statistical indicator for wind shear prediction from lightdetection and ranging (LIDAR) observational data. Accurate warning signal of wind shear is particularly important for aviation safety. The main challenges are that wind shear may result from a sustained change of the headwind and the possible velocity of wind shear may have a wide range. Traditionally, aviation models based on terrain-induced setting are used to detect wind shear phenomena. Different from traditional methods, we study a statistical indicator which is used to measure the variation of headwinds from multiple headwind profiles. Because the indicator value is nonnegative, a decision rule based on one-side normal distribution is employed to distinguish wind shear cases and non-wind shear cases. Experimental results based on real data sets obtained at Hong Kong International Airport runway are presented to demonstrate that the proposed indicator is quite effective. The prediction performance of the proposed method is better than that by the supervised learning methods (LDA, KNN, SVM, and logistic regression). This model would also provide more accurate warnings of wind shear for pilots and improve the performance of Wind shear and Turbulence Warning System.
LiDAR is an efficient optical remote sensing technology that has application in geography, forestry, and defense. The effectiveness is often limited by signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Geiger mode avalanche photodiode (AP...
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LiDAR is an efficient optical remote sensing technology that has application in geography, forestry, and defense. The effectiveness is often limited by signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Geiger mode avalanche photodiode (APD) detectors are able to operate above critical voltage, and a single photoelectron can initiate the current surge, making the device very sensitive. These advantages come at the expense of requiring computationally intensive noise filtering techniques. Noise is a problem which affects the imaging system and reduces the capability. Common noise-reduction algorithms have drawbacks such as over aggressive filtering, or decimating in order to improve quality and performance. In recent years, there has been growing interest on GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) for their ability to perform powerful massive parallel processing. In this paper, we leverage this capability to reduce the processing latency. The Point Spread Function (PSF) filter algorithm is a local spatial measure that has been GPGPU accelerated. The idea is to use a kernel density estimation technique for point clustering. We associate a local likelihood measure with every point of the input data capturing the probability that a 3D point is true target-return photons or noise (background photons, dark-current). This process suppresses noise and allows for detection of outliers. We apply this approach to the LiDAR noise filtering problem for which we have recognized a speed-up factor of 30-50 times compared to traditional sequential CPU implementation.
A novel use of Felzenszwalb's graph based efficient image segmentation algorithm* is proposed for segmenting 3D volumetric foliage penetrating (FOPEN) lightdetection and ranging (LiDAR) data for automated target ...
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A novel use of Felzenszwalb's graph based efficient image segmentation algorithm* is proposed for segmenting 3D volumetric foliage penetrating (FOPEN) lightdetection and ranging (LiDAR) data for automated target detection. The authors propose using an approximate nearest neighbors algorithm to establish neighbors of points in 3D and thus form the graph for segmentation. Following graph formation, the angular difference in the points' estimated normal vectors is proposed for the graph edge weights. Then the LiDAR data is segmented, in 3D, and metrics are calculated from the segments to determine their geometrical characteristics and thus likelihood of being a target. Finally, the bare earth within the scene is automatically identified to avoid confusion of flat bare earth with flat targets. The segmentation, the calculated metrics, and the bare earth all culminate in a target detection system deployed for FOPEN LiDAR. General purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) are leveraged to reduce processing times for the approximate nearest neighbors and point normal estimation algorithms such that the application can be run in near real time. Results are presented on several data sets. Felzenszwalb, P. F. and D. P. Huttenlocher, "Efficient Graph Based Image Segmentation", International Journal of Computer Vision, 59( 2), September 2004
Accurate tree species classification is essential for forest resource management and biodiversity assessment. However, classifying tree species becomes challenging in natural secondary forests due to the difficulties ...
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Accurate tree species classification is essential for forest resource management and biodiversity assessment. However, classifying tree species becomes challenging in natural secondary forests due to the difficulties in outlining the tree crown boundary. In this study, an object -based framework for tree species classification in the Experimental Forestry Farm of Northeast Forestry University, located in Heilongjiang Province, China, was developed based on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hyperspectral images (HSIs) and UAV lightdetection and ranging (LiDAR) data using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The study area was characterized by representative natural secondary forests that encompass diverse tree species, such as Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis Sieb. et Zucc.), White birch (Betula platyphylla Suk.), Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila L.), and Manchurian ash (Fraxinus mandshurica Rupr.). This study included two key processes: (1) the u -shaped network (U -net) algorithm was employed with the simple linear iterative clustering (SLIC) algorithm, that is, the U-SLIC algorithm, for individual tree crown delineation (ITCD), and (2) the performances of one-dimensional CNN (1D -CNN), twodimensional CNN (2D -CNN), and three-dimensional CNN (3D -CNN) models for tree species classification were compared while investigating the role of an attention mechanism (convolutional block attention module, CBAM) added to CNN models (1D -/2D -/3D -CNN + CBAM). The results showed that the U-SLIC algorithm obtained a satisfactory accuracy for the ITCD procedure, with a recall of 0.92, precision of 0.79, and F -score of 0.85. The feature selection effectively enhanced the CNN models' performances for tree species classification. Furthermore, adding the CBAM resulted in overall accuracy (OA) improvements of 0.08, 0.11, and 0.09 for the 1D -CNN, 2DCNN, and 3D -CNN, respectively. The 1D -CNN + CBAM model performed best with an OA of 0.83 when utilizing the selected HSI and LiDAR features. This
Transformers are increasingly popular in computer vision, which treat an image as a sequence of image patches and learn robust global features from the sequence. However, pure transformers are not entirely suitable fo...
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Transformers are increasingly popular in computer vision, which treat an image as a sequence of image patches and learn robust global features from the sequence. However, pure transformers are not entirely suitable for hyperspectral and lightdetection and ranging (LiDAR) image classification because image classification requires both robust global features and discriminative local features. Therefore, this article introduces a novel convolution interaction transformer network (CITNet) for jointly classifying hyperspectral and LiDAR images. The process begins with a carefully designed multiscale asymmetric depthwise convolution (MADC) module that exploits the local-global correlations of shallow features. On this basis, a novel local-global transformer (LGTM) is equipped with a local-global feed-forward (LGF) network to extract in-depth local-global joint features from the multimodal data. Then, an optimization convolution cross-attention (OCA) module, incorporating a convolutional layer, is developed to simulate the spatial relationships of semantic tokens. Finally, extensive experiments are conducted on the well-known Trento (TR), Augsburg (AU), MUUFL (MU), and Houston2013 (HU) datasets. The overall accuracy (OA) reaches 99.76%, 97.40%, 91.06%, and 99.90%, respectively, which are 0.2%-1.66%, 0.32%-7.37%, 1.52%-12.71%, and 0.14%-93.79% higher than the state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods, demonstrating the effectiveness of CITNet in improving the joint classification accuracy of hyperspectral and LiDAR images.
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