this is an introductory presentation on hyperspectral remote sensing, which essential deals with the distinguishing features, imaging spectrometers and its types, and some of the geological applications of hyperspectral remote sensing.
A remote sensing system uses a detector to sense the reflected or emitted energy from the earth's surface, perhaps modified by the intervening atmosphere. The sensor can be on a satellite, aircraft, or drone. The sensor turns the energy into a voltage, which an analog to digital converter turns into a single integer value (called the Digital Number, or DN) for the energy. Alternatively a digital detector can store the DN directly. We can then display this value with an appropriate color to build up an image of the region sensed by the system. The DN represents the energy sensed by the sensor in a particular part of the electromagnetic spectrum, emitted or reflected from a particular region. The principles can also be applied to sonar imagery, especially useful in water where sound penetrates readily whereas electromagnetic energy attenuates rapidly.
Definitions,
Remote sensing systems can be active or passive: active systems put out their own source of energy (a large "flash bulb") whereas passive systems use solar energy reflected from the surface or thermal energy emitted by the surface. Active systems can achieve higher resolution.
Satellite resolution considers four things: spatial, spectral, radiometric, and temporal resolution.
Electromagnetic radiation and the atmosphere control many aspects of a remote sensing system.
Satellite orbits determine many characteristics of the imagery, what the satellite sees, and how often it revisits an area.
The signal to noise ratio is important for the design of remote sensing systems.
Satellite band tradeoffs.
Interpreting satellite reflectance patterns and images uses various statistical measures to assess surface properties in the image.
The colors used on the display are gray shading for single bands, and RGB for multi-band composites. We can also perform image merge and sharpening to combine the advantages of both panchromatic (higher spatial resolution) and color imagery (better differentiation of surface materials).
Keys for image analysis
Hyperspectral imagery
Spectral reflectance library--different materials reflect radiation differently
A remote sensing system uses a detector to sense the reflected or emitted energy from the earth's surface, perhaps modified by the intervening atmosphere. The sensor can be on a satellite, aircraft, or drone. The sensor turns the energy into a voltage, which an analog to digital converter turns into a single integer value (called the Digital Number, or DN) for the energy. Alternatively a digital detector can store the DN directly. We can then display this value with an appropriate color to build up an image of the region sensed by the system. The DN represents the energy sensed by the sensor in a particular part of the electromagnetic spectrum, emitted or reflected from a particular region. The principles can also be applied to sonar imagery, especially useful in water where sound penetrates readily whereas electromagnetic energy attenuates rapidly.
Definitions,
Remote sensing systems can be active or passive: active systems put out their own source of energy (a large "flash bulb") whereas passive systems use solar energy reflected from the surface or thermal energy emitted by the surface. Active systems can achieve higher resolution.
Satellite resolution considers four things: spatial, spectral, radiometric, and temporal resolution.
Electromagnetic radiation and the atmosphere control many aspects of a remote sensing system.
Satellite orbits determine many characteristics of the imagery, what the satellite sees, and how often it revisits an area.
The signal to noise ratio is important for the design of remote sensing systems.
Satellite band tradeoffs.
Interpreting satellite reflectance patterns and images uses various statistical measures to assess surface properties in the image.
The colors used on the display are gray shading for single bands, and RGB for multi-band composites. We can also perform image merge and sharpening to combine the advantages of both panchromatic (higher spatial resolution) and color imagery (better differentiation of surface materials).
Keys for image analysis
Hyperspectral imagery
Spectral reflectance library--different materials reflect radiation differently
Application of Basic Remote Sensing in GeologyUzair Khan
Application of basic remote sensing in Geology. This presentation tries to discriminate the lithology in the Landsat-7 scene located Karachi West. Although other enhanced methodology available to discriminate the rock types, here just a band ratios and simple band combination used for lithology identification.
Multispectral remote sensors such as the Landsat Thematic Mapper and SPOT XS produce
images with a few relatively broad wavelength bands. Hyperspectral remote sensors, on the
other hand, collect image data simultaneously in dozens or hundreds of narrow, adjacent
spectral bands. These measurements make it possible to derive a continuous spectrum for each
image cell, as shown in the illustration below. After adjustments for sensor, atmospheric, and
terrain effects are applied, these image spectra can be compared with field or laboratory
reflectance spectra in order to recognize and map surface materials such as particular types of
vegetation or diagnostic minerals associated with ore deposits.
Hyperspectral Imagery for Environmental Mapping and MonitoringDominique BUFFET
Hyperspectral Imagery for Environmental Mapping and Monitoring: Case Study of Grassland in Belgium.
The objective of this study is to show that hyperspectral imagery can be used to characterise grassland as well as its biophysical and biochemical properties.
Remote sensing application in agriculture & forestry_Dr Menon A R R (The Kera...India Water Portal
This presentation by Dr A R R Menon, Emeritus scientist, CED on Remote Sensing applications in agriculture and forestry was made at at the Kerala Environment Congress, Trivandrum organised by the Centre for Environment and Development
This presentation examines the science behind hyperspectral imaging and why it's so well suited for forensic applications, including questioned document examination, fiber comparison blodstain visualization and fingerprint visualization.
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3. These systems typically collect 200 or more bands of data, which enables the construction of an effectively continuous reflectance or emittance spectrum for every pixel in the scene.
4. These systems can discriminate among earth surface features that have diagnostic absorption and reflection characteristics over narrow wavelength intervals that are “lost” within the relatively coarse bandwidths of conventional multispectral scanners.2 What is Hyperspectral Remote Sensing???
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6. These 'fingerprints' are known as spectral signatures and enable identification of the materials that make up a scanned object. For example, having the spectral signature for oil helps mineralogists find new oil fields.3
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8. Multispectral data contains from tens to hundreds of bands. Hyperspectral data contains hundreds to thousands of bands.
9. However, hyperspectral imaging may be best defined by the manner in which the data is collected. Hyperspectral data is a set of contiguous bands (usually by one sensor). Multispectral is a set of optimally chosen spectral bands that are typically not contiguous and can be collected from multiple sensors.4
12. Each image represents a range of the electromagnetic spectrum and is also known as a spectral band.
13. These 'images' are then combined and form a three dimensional hyperspectral cube for processing and analysis.
14. Hyperspectral cubes are generated from airborne sensors like the NASA’s Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS), or from satellites like NASA’s Hyperion.However, for many development and validation studies handheld sensors are used.6
17. If the scanner picks up on a large number of fairly narrow frequency bands, it is possible to identify objects even if said objects are only captured in a handful of pixels.
18. However, spatial resolution is a factor in addition to spectral resolution. If the pixels are too large, then multiple objects are captured in the same pixel and become difficult to identify.
19. If the pixels are too small, then the energy captured by each sensor-cell is low, and the decreased signal-to-noise ratio reduces the reliability of measured features.
26. Main objective : to identify, measure, and monitor constituents of the Earth's surface and atmosphere based on molecular absorption and particle scattering signatures.
27. Research with AVIRIS data is predominantly focused on understanding processes related to the global environment and climate change.10
32. Main objective : to help improve our understanding of global dynamics and processes occurring on the land, in the oceans, and in the lower atmosphere.
33. MODIS is playing a vital role in the development of validated, global, interactive Earth system models able to predict global change accurately enough to assist policy makers in making sound decisions concerning the protection of our environment.12
44. In support of ASTER studies, a library of natural and man-made materials was compiled as the ASTER spectral library.
45. The ASTER spectral library currently contains nearly 2000 spectra, including minerals, rocks, soils, man-made materials, water, and snow. Many of the spectra cover the entire wavelength region from 0.4 to 14 micro meters. 16
47. The ASTER spectral library plot for Quartz Name: Quartz SiO2 Type: Mineral Class: Silicates Subclass: Tectosilicates (Silica Group) Particle Size: Coarse (75 - 250 Micrometers) Sample No.: quartz.1 Owner: JHU Wavelength Range: IR Origin: Brazil, via Bruce Hemingway, USGS Description: The hand sample appeared entirely pure, being a clear and transparent fragment of a single crystal. This purity was confirmed under the microscope and by XRD analysis, as well as within the limits of microprobe error. Measurement: Bidirectional reflectance 18
51. This study was carried out for the hyperspectral mineral mapping of Cuprite in Nevada in the USA.21
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53. The site is typically described as consisting of two hydrothermal centers. These can be seen in the images as bright areas to the right and left of the road running from NW to SE across the scenes.22
54. RESULTS: Operationally, spectral bands covering the short wave infrared (SWIR) spectral range 2.0 – 2.5 μm for AVIRIS and 2.0 – 2.4 μmfor Hyperion were selected. The results indicate that the AVIRIS data contain significantly more information than the Hyperion data covering approximately the same spatial area and spectral range. CONCLUSION: Analysis of Hyperion data for Cuprite, Nevada, which has established ground truth and years of airborne hyperspectraldata, show that Hyperion is performing to specifications and data from the short wave infrared (SWIR) spectrometer can be used to produce useful geologic (mineralogic) information. AVIRIS data collected during June 1997 served as the “ground truth” for this investigation. Comparison of Hyperion results to the known mineralogy derived from AVIRIS data generally validate on-orbit mineral mapping and Hyperion performance. Minerals mapped at Cuprite using Hyperion include kaolinite, alunite, buddingtonite, calcite, muscovite, and hydrothermal silica. 23
57. Until recently, these efforts have been hampered by the fact that the spatial and spectral resolution of most sensors is too limiting for use in onshore applications, especially in remote terrain.
58. A group of geologists came together and re-visited areas known to contain oil seeps and oil-impacted soils using hand-held hyperspectral sensors.
59. The primary mission of this ongoing project was to document spectral characteristics that are typically associated with oil-impacted soils and seeps.
60. These findings were then used to construct a spectral library that will make detection of onshore oil seeps and oil-impacted soil more rapid and reliable than traditional methods.25
61. 3. MULTISPECTRAL AND HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING OF ALPINE SNOW PROPERTIES Models of processes in the alpine snow cover fundamentally depend on the spatial distribution of the surface energy balance over areas where topographic variability causes huge differences in the incoming solar radiation and in snow depth because of redistribution by wind. The aim here, is to know which areas are covered by snow and snow’s spectral albedo, along with other factors such as grain size, contaminants, temperature, liquid water content, and depth or water equivalent. From multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing at wavelengths from 0.4–15 µm, the retrievable properties include snow-covered area, albedo, grain size, liquid water very near the surface, and temperature. Spectral mixture analysis allows the retrieval of the subpixel variability of snow-covered area, along with the snow’s albedo. 26
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63. accounting for variability in the bidirectional-reflectance distribution function and the variability of grain size with depth,
66. and adapting the algorithms to frequent, large-scale processing.
67. Earliest studies using multispectral sensing systems included the acquisition of such data in the visible and near IR regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
69. The need for snow mapping at sub-pixel resolution: Snow-covered area in Alpine terrain often varies at a spatial scale finer than that of the ground IFOV of the remote sensing instrument. This spatial heterogeneity poses a mixed pixel problem in that the sensor may measure radiance reflected from snow, rock, soil, and vegetation. To use the snow characteristics in distributed physical models, we must therefore map snow-covered area at subpixelresolution in order to accurately represent its spatial distribution; otherwise, systematic errors may result. 28
70. Three phases of water image with water vapor, liquid water, and ice displayed as a false-color image mixing blue, green, and red colors, respectively. Melting snow and ice zones are shown by the color yellow where liquid water and ice are present together. The red colors show areas where the snow is dry and there is little water vapor above the high-altitude surface. Areas largely blue or green are snow-free; any water is either in the atmosphere (vapor) or vegetation (liquid). 29
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77. Van der Meer, Freek (1994). Calibration of Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer Data (AVIRIS) to Reflectance and Mineral Mapping in Hydrothermal Alteration Zones: An Example from the Cuprite Mining District.. Geocarto International, 3, 23-37.
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