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Ultrahigh-resolution boreal forest canopy mapping: Combining UAV imagery and photogrammetric point clouds in a deep-learning-based approach / Linyuan Li in International journal of applied Earth observation and geoinformation, vol 107 (March 2022)  

Public [article]  inInternational journal of applied Earth observation and geoinformation > vol 107 (March 2022) . - n° 102686 Titre : Ultrahigh-resolution boreal forest canopy mapping: Combining UAV imagery and photogrammetric point clouds in a deep-learning-based approach Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Linyuan Li, Auteur ; Xihan Mu, Auteur ; Francesco Chianucci, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 102686 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications photogrammétriques [Termes IGN] algorithme SLIC [Termes IGN] apprentissage profond [Termes IGN] canopée [Termes IGN] carte forestière [Termes IGN] Chine [Termes IGN] classification par maximum de vraisemblance [Termes IGN] classification par réseau neuronal convolutif [Termes IGN] couvert forestier [Termes IGN] données d'entrainement (apprentissage automatique) [Termes IGN] données lidar [Termes IGN] faisceau laser [Termes IGN] forêt boréale [Termes IGN] image captée par drone [Termes IGN] modèle numérique de surface de la canopée [Termes IGN] modèle numérique de terrain [Termes IGN] segmentation sémantique [Termes IGN] semis de points [Termes IGN] sous-étage [Termes IGN] structure-from-motion Résumé : (auteur) Accurate wall-to-wall estimation of forest crown cover is critical for a wide range of ecological studies. Notwithstanding the increasing use of UAVs in forest canopy mapping, the ultrahigh-resolution UAV imagery requires an appropriate procedure to separate the contribution of understorey from overstorey vegetation, which is complicated by the spectral similarity between the two forest components and the illumination environment. In this study, we investigated the integration of deep learning and the combined data of imagery and photogrammetric point clouds for boreal forest canopy mapping. The procedure enables the automatic creation of training sets of tree crown (overstorey) and background (understorey) data via the combination of UAV images and their associated photogrammetric point clouds and expands the applicability of deep learning models with self-supervision. Based on the UAV images with different overlap levels of 12 conifer forest plots that are categorized into “I”, “II” and “III” complexity levels according to illumination environment, we compared the self-supervised deep learning-predicted canopy maps from original images with manual delineation data and found an average intersection of union (IoU) larger than 0.9 for “complexity I” and “complexity II” plots and larger than 0.75 for “complexity III” plots. The proposed method was then compared with three classical image segmentation methods (i.e., maximum likelihood, Kmeans, and Otsu) in the plot-level crown cover estimation, showing outperformance in overstorey canopy extraction against other methods. The proposed method was also validated against wall-to-wall and pointwise crown cover estimates using UAV LiDAR and in situ digital cover photography (DCP) benchmarking methods. The results showed that the model-predicted crown cover was in line with the UAV LiDAR method (RMSE of 0.06) and deviate from the DCP method (RMSE of 0.18). We subsequently compared the new method and the commonly used UAV structure-from-motion (SfM) method at varying forward and lateral overlaps over all plots and a rugged terrain region, yielding results showing that the method-predicted crown cover was relatively insensitive to varying overlap (largest bias of less than 0.15), whereas the UAV SfM-estimated crown cover was seriously affected by overlap and decreased with decreasing overlap. In addition, canopy mapping over rugged terrain verified the merits of the new method, with no need for a detailed digital terrain model (DTM). The new method is recommended to be used in various image overlaps, illuminations, and terrains due to its robustness and high accuracy. This study offers opportunities to promote forest ecological applications (e.g., leaf area index estimation) and sustainable management (e.g., deforestation). Numéro de notice : A2022-192 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.jag.2022.102686 Date de publication en ligne : 05/02/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.102686 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99951 [article]

Comparing methods to extract crop height and estimate crop coefficient from UAV imagery using structure from motion / Nitzan Malachy in Remote sensing, vol 14 n° 4 (February-2 2022)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing > vol 14 n° 4 (February-2 2022) . - n° 810 Titre : Comparing methods to extract crop height and estimate crop coefficient from UAV imagery using structure from motion Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Nitzan Malachy, Auteur ; Imri Zadak, Auteur ; Offer Rozenstein, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 810 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications photogrammétriques [Termes IGN] analyse spectrale [Termes IGN] covariance [Termes IGN] cultures [Termes IGN] données lidar [Termes IGN] hauteur de la végétation [Termes IGN] hétérogénéité spatiale [Termes IGN] image captée par drone [Termes IGN] modèle de croissance végétale [Termes IGN] régression linéaire [Termes IGN] série temporelle [Termes IGN] structure-from-motion [Termes IGN] zone d'intérêt Résumé : (auteur) Although it is common to consider crop height in agricultural management, variation in plant height within the field is seldom addressed because it is challenging to assess from discrete field measurements. However, creating spatial crop height models (CHMs) using structure from motion (SfM) applied to unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery can easily be done. Therefore, looking into intra- and inter-season height variability has the potential to provide regular information for precision management. This study aimed to test different approaches to deriving crop height from CHM and subsequently estimate the crop coefficient (Kc). CHMs were created for three crops (tomato, potato, and cotton) during five growing seasons, in addition to manual height measurements. The Kc time-series were derived from eddy-covariance measurements in commercial fields and estimated from multispectral UAV imagery in small plots, based on known relationships between Kc and spectral vegetation indices. A comparison of four methods (Mean, Sample, Median, and Peak) was performed to derive single height values from CHMs. Linear regression was performed between crop height estimations from CHMs against manual height measurements and Kc. Height was best predicted using the Mean and the Sample methods for all three crops (R2 = 0.94, 0.84, 0.74 and RMSE = 0.056, 0.071, 0.051 for cotton, potato, and tomato, respectively), as was the prediction of Kc (R2 = 0.98, 0.84, 0.8 and RMSE = 0.026, 0.049, 0.023 for cotton, potato, and tomato, respectively). The Median and Peak methods had far less success in predicting both, and the Peak method was shown to be sensitive to the size of the area analyzed. This study shows that CHMs can help growers identify spatial heterogeneity in crop height and estimate the crop coefficient for precision irrigation applications. Numéro de notice : A2022-139 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/rs14040810 Date de publication en ligne : 09/02/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14040810 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99774 [article]

Using vertices of a triangular irregular network to calculate slope and aspect / Guanghui Hu in International journal of geographical information science IJGIS, vol 36 n° 2 (February 2022)  

Public [article]  inInternational journal of geographical information science IJGIS > vol 36 n° 2 (February 2022) . - pp 382 - 404 Titre : Using vertices of a triangular irregular network to calculate slope and aspect Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Guanghui Hu, Auteur ; Chun Wang, Auteur ; Sijin Li, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : pp 382 - 404 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géomatique [Termes IGN] analyse comparative [Termes IGN] bassin hydrographique [Termes IGN] géomorphologie [Termes IGN] grille [Termes IGN] loess [Termes IGN] maillage [Termes IGN] méthode de Monte-Carlo [Termes IGN] modèle numérique de surface [Termes IGN] noeud [Termes IGN] pente [Termes IGN] point d'appui [Termes IGN] Triangulated Irregular Network Résumé : (auteur) Terrain derivative calculations from triangulated irregular network (TIN)-based digital elevation models (DEMs) have been extensively explored in geomorphometry. However, most calculation methods focus on the triangulation facets of TIN-based DEMs and ignore the vertices. In fact, these vertices are the original sampling points from the terrain surface and serve as the basis for triangulation. In this study, we argue that terrain derivative calculations using TIN-based DEMs should focus on the vertices. Employing examples with slope and aspect, we applied the TIN vertex-based method to a mathematical surface and a real topography using TIN-based DEMs with a range of sampling point densities. We performed a comparative analysis of the TIN vertex-based, TIN facet-based, and grid-based methods. Assessments on the mathematical surface showed that the TIN vertex-based method achieved the highest accuracy among the three methods. Error analysis for the real landform case indicated that the TIN vertex-based method performed slightly better than the grid-based method for slope calculation and slightly worse than the grid-based method for aspect calculation. Among the three methods, the TIN facet-based method was most sensitive to error. The TIN vertex-based method can provide a reference for the slope and aspect calculation based on point clouds. Numéro de notice : A2022-165 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1080/13658816.2021.1933493 Date de publication en ligne : 01/07/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2021.1933493 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99788 [article]

3D modeling of urban area based on oblique UAS images - An end-to-end pipeline / Valeria-Ersilia Oniga in Remote sensing, vol 14 n° 2 (January-2 2022)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing > vol 14 n° 2 (January-2 2022) . - n° 422 Titre : 3D modeling of urban area based on oblique UAS images - An end-to-end pipeline Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Valeria-Ersilia Oniga, Auteur ; Ana-Ioana Breaban, Auteur ; Norbert Pfeifer, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 422 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications photogrammétriques [Termes IGN] apprentissage automatique [Termes IGN] Bâti-3D [Termes IGN] CityGML [Termes IGN] classification par forêts d'arbres décisionnels [Termes IGN] données lidar [Termes IGN] image aérienne oblique [Termes IGN] image captée par drone [Termes IGN] indice de végétation [Termes IGN] lasergrammétrie [Termes IGN] modèle numérique de surface [Termes IGN] modélisation 3D [Termes IGN] point d'appui [Termes IGN] Roumanie [Termes IGN] segmentation [Termes IGN] semis de points [Termes IGN] zone urbaine Résumé : (auteur) 3D modelling of urban areas is an attractive and active research topic, as 3D digital models of cities are becoming increasingly common for urban management as a consequence of the constantly growing number of people living in cities. Viewed as a digital representation of the Earth’s surface, an urban area modeled in 3D includes objects such as buildings, trees, vegetation and other anthropogenic structures, highlighting the buildings as the most prominent category. A city’s 3D model can be created based on different data sources, especially LiDAR or photogrammetric point clouds. This paper’s aim is to provide an end-to-end pipeline for 3D building modeling based on oblique UAS images only, the result being a parametrized 3D model with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) CityGML standard, Level of Detail 2 (LOD2). For this purpose, a flight over an urban area of about 20.6 ha has been taken with a low-cost UAS, i.e., a DJI Phantom 4 Pro Professional (P4P), at 100 m height. The resulting UAS point cloud with the best scenario, i.e., 45 Ground Control Points (GCP), has been processed as follows: filtering to extract the ground points using two algorithms, CSF and terrain-mark; classification, using two methods, based on attributes only and a random forest machine learning algorithm; segmentation using local homogeneity implemented into Opals software; plane creation based on a region-growing algorithm; and plane editing and 3D model reconstruction based on piece-wise intersection of planar faces. The classification performed with ~35% training data and 31 attributes showed that the Visible-band difference vegetation index (VDVI) is a key attribute and 77% of the data was classified using only five attributes. The global accuracy for each modeled building through the workflow proposed in this study was around 0.15 m, so it can be concluded that the proposed pipeline is reliable. Numéro de notice : A2022-101 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE/IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/rs14020422 Date de publication en ligne : 17/01/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14020422 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99566 [article]

Automatic extraction of damaged houses by earthquake based on improved YOLOv5: A case study in Yangbi / Yafei Jing in Remote sensing, vol 14 n° 2 (January-2 2022)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing > vol 14 n° 2 (January-2 2022) . - n° 382 Titre : Automatic extraction of damaged houses by earthquake based on improved YOLOv5: A case study in Yangbi Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Yafei Jing, Auteur ; Yuhuan Ren, Auteur ; Yalan Liu, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 382 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de télédétection [Termes IGN] apprentissage profond [Termes IGN] détection d'objet [Termes IGN] détection de cible [Termes IGN] détection du bâti [Termes IGN] dommage matériel [Termes IGN] extraction automatique [Termes IGN] image captée par drone [Termes IGN] orthoimage [Termes IGN] séisme [Termes IGN] Yunnan (Chine) Résumé : (auteur) Efficiently and automatically acquiring information on earthquake damage through remote sensing has posed great challenges because the classical methods of detecting houses damaged by destructive earthquakes are often both time consuming and low in accuracy. A series of deep-learning-based techniques have been developed and recent studies have demonstrated their high intelligence for automatic target extraction for natural and remote sensing images. For the detection of small artificial targets, current studies show that You Only Look Once (YOLO) has a good performance in aerial and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) images. However, less work has been conducted on the extraction of damaged houses. In this study, we propose a YOLOv5s-ViT-BiFPN-based neural network for the detection of rural houses. Specifically, to enhance the feature information of damaged houses from the global information of the feature map, we introduce the Vision Transformer into the feature extraction network. Furthermore, regarding the scale differences for damaged houses in UAV images due to the changes in flying height, we apply the Bi-Directional Feature Pyramid Network (BiFPN) for multi-scale feature fusion to aggregate features with different resolutions and test the model. We took the 2021 Yangbi earthquake with a surface wave magnitude (Ms) of 6.4 in Yunan, China, as an example; the results show that the proposed model presents a better performance, with the average precision (AP) being increased by 9.31% and 1.23% compared to YOLOv3 and YOLOv5s, respectively, and a detection speed of 80 FPS, which is 2.96 times faster than YOLOv3. In addition, the transferability test for five other areas showed that the average accuracy was 91.23% and the total processing time was 4 min, while 100 min were needed for professional visual interpreters. The experimental results demonstrate that the YOLOv5s-ViT-BiFPN model can automatically detect damaged rural houses due to destructive earthquakes in UAV images with a good performance in terms of accuracy and timeliness, as well as being robust and transferable. Numéro de notice : A2022-104 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/rs14020382 Date de publication en ligne : 14/01/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14020382 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99577 [article]

Soil erosion estimation of Bhandara region of Maharashtra, India, by integrated use of RUSLE, remote sensing, and GIS / Sumedh R. Kashiwar in Natural Hazards, vol 110 n° 2 (January 2022)  

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A 3D segments based algorithm for heterogeneous data registration / Rahima Djahel (2022)  

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3D stem modelling in tropical forest: towards improved biomass and biomass change estimates / Sébastien Bauwens (2022)  

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Applications of multi-image remote sensing / Roger Mari Molas (2022)  

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Archaeological 3D GIS / Nicolo Dell’Unto (2022)  

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Automatic algorithm for georeferencing historical-to-nowadays aerial images acquired in natural environments / Daniela Craciun (2022)  

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CIME: Context-aware geolocation of emergency-related posts / Gabriele Scalia in Geoinformatica, vol 26 n° 1 (January 2022)  

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Contribution to object extraction in cartography : A novel deep learning-based solution to recognise, segment and post-process the road transport network as a continuous geospatial element in high-resolution aerial orthoimagery / Calimanut-Ionut Cira (2022)  

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Deep learning based 3D reconstruction: supervision and representation / François Darmon (2022)  

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Detection of windthrown tree stems on UAV-orthomosaics using U-Net convolutional networks / Stefan Reder in Remote sensing, vol 14 n° 1 (January-1 2022)  

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