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Multi‑constellation GNSS interferometric reflectometry for the correction of long-term snow height retrieval on sloping topography / Wei Zhou in GPS solutions, vol 26 n° 4 (October 2022)  

Public [article]  inGPS solutions > vol 26 n° 4 (October 2022) . - n° 140 Titre : Multi‑constellation GNSS interferometric reflectometry for the correction of long-term snow height retrieval on sloping topography Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Wei Zhou, Auteur ; Liangke Huang, Auteur ; Bing Ji, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 140 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] hauteur (coordonnée) [Termes IGN] manteau neigeux [Termes IGN] pente [Termes IGN] Ransac (algorithme) [Termes IGN] rapport signal sur bruit [Termes IGN] réflectométrie par GNSS [Termes IGN] signal GNSS [Termes IGN] système de référence altimétrique [Termes IGN] topographie locale [Termes IGN] transformation en ondelettes [Termes IGN] valeur aberrante [Vedettes matières IGN] Altimétrie Résumé : (auteur) Snow is a key parameter for global climate and hydrological systems. Global Navigation Satellite System interferometric reflectometry (GNSS-IR) has been applied to accurately monitor snow height (SH) with low cost and high temporal–spatial resolution. We proposed an improved GNSS-IR method using detrended signal-to-noise ratio (δSNR) arcs corresponding to multipath reflection tracks with different azimuths. After using wavelet decomposition and random sample consensus, noise with various frequencies for SNR arcs and outliers of reflector height (RH) estimations have been sequentially mitigated to enhance the availability of the proposed method. Thus, a height datum based on the ground RHs retrieved from multi-GNSS SNR data is established to compensate for the influence of topography variation with different azimuths in SH retrieval. The approximately 3-month δSNR datasets collected from three stations deployed on sloping topography were used to retrieve SH and compared with the existing method and in situ measurements. The results show that the root mean square errors of the retrievals derived from the proposed method for the three sites are between 4 and 8 cm, and the corresponding correlation surpasses 0.95 when compared to the reference SH datasets. Additionally, we compare the performance of a retrieval with the existing GNSS-IR Web App, and it shows an improvement in RMSE of about 7 cm. Furthermore, because topography variation has been considered, the average correction of SH retrievals is between 2 and 4 cm. The solution with the proposed method helps develop the applications of the GNSS-IR technique on complex topography. Numéro de notice : A2022-712 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article DOI : 10.1007/s10291-022-01333-0 Date de publication en ligne : 15/09/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s10291-022-01333-0 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101590 [article]

PPP rapid ambiguity resolution using Android GNSS raw measurements with a low-cost helical antenna / Xingxing Li in Journal of geodesy, vol 96 n° 10 (October 2022)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 96 n° 10 (October 2022) . - n° 65 Titre : PPP rapid ambiguity resolution using Android GNSS raw measurements with a low-cost helical antenna Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Xingxing Li, Auteur ; Hao Wang, Auteur ; Xin Li, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 65 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] Androïd [Termes IGN] antenne [Termes IGN] données GNSS [Termes IGN] positionnement cinématique en temps réel [Termes IGN] positionnement ponctuel précis [Termes IGN] précision du positionnement [Termes IGN] rapport signal sur bruit [Termes IGN] résolution d'ambiguïté [Termes IGN] téléphone intelligent Résumé : (auteur) The release of GNSS raw measurement acquisition privileges on Google Android makes high-precision positioning on the low-cost smart devices possible. However, influenced by the inner linearly polarized antenna, the pseudorange and carrier phase noises of the smart device are much larger than those of the geodetic receiver. As a result, only meter-level positioning accuracy can be obtained based on the smart device’s original antenna. With the external survey-grade antenna enhancing, positioning accuracy of decimeter-level to centimeter-level can be obtained, but it still takes tens of minutes to converge and fix the ambiguity. However, a PPP-RTK method is proposed to achieve rapid integer ambiguity resolution (AR) with the regional atmospheric augmentation. In this contribution, an uncombined PPP-RTK model is developed using Android GNSS raw measurements with an external antenna, after carefully considering the coexistence of single- and dual-frequency signals on smart devices. A low-cost helical antenna is employed to enhance the Android GNSS data as it is capable to provide observation data of comparable quality with the survey-grade antenna and has several advantages of low weight, low-power consumption, and portability. Moreover, a series of quality control methods in the data preprocessing and ambiguity resolution are proposed for smartphone-based PPP-RTK to enhance the positioning results. To validate the proposed method, several experiments are carried out using raw measurements of Xiaomi Mi8 with an external low-cost helical antenna. The result shows that the ambiguity fixed solution can be obtained within 3 min in both static and kinematic scenarios. After the ambiguity resolution, centimeter-level positioning accuracy of (1.7, 2.1, 4.1) cm and (7.2, 4.5, 8.1) cm for the east, north, and up components can be achieved in static and kinematic scenarios, respectively. Numéro de notice : A2022-735 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-022-01661-6 Date de publication en ligne : 27/09/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-022-01661-6 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101706 [article]

Ground surface elevation changes over permafrost areas revealed by multiple GNSS interferometric reflectometry / Yufeng Hu in Journal of geodesy, vol 96 n° 8 (August 2022)  

Public [article]  inJournal of geodesy > vol 96 n° 8 (August 2022) . - n° 56 Titre : Ground surface elevation changes over permafrost areas revealed by multiple GNSS interferometric reflectometry Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Yufeng Hu, Auteur ; Ji Wang, Auteur ; Zhenhong Li, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 56 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de géodésie spatiale [Termes IGN] Alaska (Etats-Unis) [Termes IGN] analyse diachronique [Termes IGN] dégel [Termes IGN] données Galileo [Termes IGN] données GLONASS [Termes IGN] pergélisol [Termes IGN] rapport signal sur bruit [Termes IGN] réflecteur [Termes IGN] réflectométrie par GNSS [Termes IGN] signal GNSS [Termes IGN] surface du sol [Termes IGN] variation saisonnière Résumé : (auteur) Ground subsidence and uplift caused by the annual thawing and freezing of the active layer are important variables in permafrost studies. Global positioning system interferometric reflectometry (GPS-IR) has been successfully applied to retrieve the continuous ground surface movements in permafrost areas. However, only GPS signals were used in previous studies. In this study, using multiple global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) observations recorded by a GNSS station SG27 in Utqiaġvik, Alaska during the period from 2018 to 2021, we applied multiple GNSS-IR (multi-GNSS-IR) technique to the SNR data and obtained the complete and continuous ground surface elevation changes over the permafrost area at a daily interval in snow-free seasons in 2018 and 2019. The GLONASS-IR and Galileo-IR measurements agreed with the GPS-IR measurements at L1 frequency, which are the most consistent measurements among all multi-GNSS measurements, in terms of the overall subsidence trend but clearly showed periodic noises. We proposed a method to reconstruct the GLONASS- and Galileo-IR elevation changes by specifically grouping and fitting them with a composite model. Compared with GPS L1 results, the unbiased root mean square error (RMSE) of the reconstructed Galileo measurements reduced by 50.0% and 42.2% in 2018 and 2019, respectively, while the unbiased RMSE of the reconstructed GLONASS measurements decreased by 41.8% and 25.8% in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Fitting the composite model to the combined multi-GNSS-IR, we obtained seasonal displacements of − 3.27 ± 0.13 cm (R2 = 0.763) and − 10.56 ± 0.10 cm (R2 = 0.912) in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Moreover, we found that the abnormal summer heave was strongly correlated with rain events, implying hydrological effects on the ground surface elevation changes. Our study shows the feasibility of multi-GNSS-IR in permafrost areas for the first time. Multi-GNSS-IR opens up a great opportunity for us to investigate ground surface movements over permafrost areas with multi-source observations, which are important for our robust analysis and quantitative understanding of frozen ground dynamics under climate change. Numéro de notice : A2022-606 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : POSITIONNEMENT Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1007/s00190-022-01646-5 Date de publication en ligne : 13/08/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1007/s00190-022-01646-5 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101385 [article]

A dual-generator translation network fusing texture and structure features for SAR and optical image matching / Han Nie in Remote sensing, Vol 14 n° 12 (June-2 2022)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing > Vol 14 n° 12 (June-2 2022) . - n° 2946 Titre : A dual-generator translation network fusing texture and structure features for SAR and optical image matching Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Han Nie, Auteur ; Zhitao Fu, Auteur ; Bo-Hui Tang, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 2946 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image mixte [Termes IGN] agrégation de détails [Termes IGN] appariement d'images [Termes IGN] fusion d'images [Termes IGN] image radar moirée [Termes IGN] image Sentinel-MSI [Termes IGN] image Sentinel-SAR [Termes IGN] rapport signal sur bruit [Termes IGN] rift [Termes IGN] texture d'image Résumé : (auteur) The matching problem for heterologous remote sensing images can be simplified to the matching problem for pseudo homologous remote sensing images via image translation to improve the matching performance. Among such applications, the translation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical images is the current focus of research. However, the existing methods for SAR-to-optical translation have two main drawbacks. First, single generators usually sacrifice either structure or texture features to balance the model performance and complexity, which often results in textural or structural distortion; second, due to large nonlinear radiation distortions (NRDs) in SAR images, there are still visual differences between the pseudo-optical images generated by current generative adversarial networks (GANs) and real optical images. Therefore, we propose a dual-generator translation network for fusing structure and texture features. On the one hand, the proposed network has dual generators, a texture generator, and a structure generator, with good cross-coupling to obtain high-accuracy structure and texture features; on the other hand, frequency-domain and spatial-domain loss functions are introduced to reduce the differences between pseudo-optical images and real optical images. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on publicly available optical and SAR datasets. Our method improves the peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) by 21.0%, the chromatic feature similarity (FSIMc) by 6.9%, and the structural similarity (SSIM) by 161.7% in terms of the average metric values on all test images compared with the next best results. In addition, we present a before-and-after translation comparison experiment to show that our method improves the average keypoint repeatability by approximately 111.7% and the matching accuracy by approximately 5.25%. Numéro de notice : A2022-562 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/rs14122946 Date de publication en ligne : 20/06/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14122946 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101237 [article]

Combination of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data for tree species classification in a Central European biosphere reserve / Michael Lechner in Remote sensing, vol 14 n° 11 (June-1 2022)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing > vol 14 n° 11 (June-1 2022) . - n° 2687 Titre : Combination of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data for tree species classification in a Central European biosphere reserve Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Michael Lechner, Auteur ; Alena Dostalova, Auteur ; Markus Hollaus, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 2687 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image mixte [Termes IGN] analyse comparative [Termes IGN] analyse harmonique [Termes IGN] Autriche [Termes IGN] biosphère [Termes IGN] classification par forêts d'arbres décisionnels [Termes IGN] espèce végétale [Termes IGN] feuillu [Termes IGN] image Sentinel-MSI [Termes IGN] image Sentinel-SAR [Termes IGN] nébulosité [Termes IGN] phénologie [Termes IGN] Pinophyta [Termes IGN] rapport signal sur bruit [Termes IGN] réserve forestière Résumé : (auteur) Microwave and optical imaging methods react differently to different land surface parameters and, thus, provide highly complementary information. However, the contribution of individual features from these two domains of the electromagnetic spectrum for tree species classification is still unclear. For large-scale forest assessments, it is moreover important to better understand the domain-specific limitations of the two sensor families, such as the impact of cloudiness and low signal-to-noise-ratio, respectively. In this study, seven deciduous and five coniferous tree species of the Austrian Biosphere Reserve Wienerwald (105,000 ha) were classified using Breiman’s random forest classifier, labeled with help of forest enterprise data. In nine test cases, variations of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery were passed to the classifier to evaluate their respective contributions. By solely using a high number of Sentinel-2 scenes well spread over the growing season, an overall accuracy of 83.2% was achieved. With ample Sentinel-2 scenes available, the additional use of Sentinel-1 data improved the results by 0.5 percentage points. This changed when only a single Sentinel-2 scene was supposedly available. In this case, the full set of Sentinel-1-derived features increased the overall accuracy on average by 4.7 percentage points. The same level of accuracy could be obtained using three Sentinel-2 scenes spread over the vegetation period. On the other hand, the sole use of Sentinel-1 including phenological indicators and additional features derived from the time series did not yield satisfactory overall classification accuracies (55.7%), as only coniferous species were well separated. Numéro de notice : A2022-540 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.3390/rs14112687 Date de publication en ligne : 03/06/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14112687 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=101103 [article]

An algorithm to assist the robust filter for tightly coupled RTK/INS navigation system / Zun Niu in Remote sensing, vol 14 n° 10 (May-2 2022)  

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Coastal observation of sea surface tide and wave height using opportunity signal from Beidou GEO satellites: analysis and evaluation / Feng Wang in Journal of geodesy, vol 96 n° 4 (April 2022)  

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Flood monitoring by integration of remote sensing technique and multi-criteria decision making method / Hadi Farhadi in Computers & geosciences, vol 160 (March 2022)  

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A batch algorithm for GNSS carrier phase cycle slip correction / Brian Breitsch in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 60 n° 2 (February 2022)  

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A multipath and thermal noise joint error characterization and exploitation for low-cost GNSS PVT estimators in urban environment / Eustachio Roberto Matera (2022)  

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Non-linear GNSS signal processing applied to land observation with high-rate airborne reflectometry / Hamza Issa (2022)  

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Python software to transform GPS SNR wave phases to volumetric water content / Angel Martín in GPS solutions, vol 26 n° 1 (January 2022)  

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Robust GNSS phase tracking using variational bayesian inference / Fabio Fabozzi (2022)  

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Estimation of surface deformation due to Pasni earthquake using RADAR interferometry / Muhammad Ali in Geocarto international, vol 36 n° 14 ([01/08/2021])  

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Ionospheric irregularity layer height and thickness estimation with a GNSS receiver array / Seebany Datta-Barua in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, Vol 59 n° 7 (July 2021)  

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