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Feasibility of mapping radioactive minerals in high background radiation areas using remote sensing techniques / J.O. Ondieki 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° 102700 Titre : Feasibility of mapping radioactive minerals in high background radiation areas using remote sensing techniques Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : J.O. Ondieki, Auteur ; C.O. Mito, Auteur ; M.I. Kaniu, Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 102700 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de télédétection [Termes IGN] analyse de groupement [Termes IGN] carte thématique [Termes IGN] classification par maximum de vraisemblance [Termes IGN] données géologiques [Termes IGN] image Landsat-OLI [Termes IGN] Kappa de Cohen [Termes IGN] Kenya [Termes IGN] minerai [Termes IGN] pollution radioactive [Termes IGN] précision de la classification [Termes IGN] radioactivité [Termes IGN] signature spectrale Résumé : (auteur) This study investigates the utility of using remote sensing and geographic information system techniques to accurately infer the presence of radioactive minerals in a typical high background radiation area (HBRA) by analyzing spectral signatures of associated soil, rocks and vegetation. To accomplish this, both unsupervised (K-Means Clustering) and supervised classification techniques based on a maximum likelihood classifier (MLC) were applied to Landsat-8 Imager data from Mrima Hill on Kenya's south coast. The hill is surrounded by dense tropical forest and deeply weathered soils which are rich in Nb, Th, and rare earth elements. Due to high activity concentrations of 232Th (>8 times higher than the world average value for soil), the hill has been designated as a geogenic HBRA. Based on the underlying geological formations, four classifications of vegetation and two classifications of soil/rocks were established and used to indicate the presence of radioactive minerals in the area. Measurements of air-absorbed gamma dose-rates in the area were successfully used to validate these findings. The application of the MLC method on Landsat satellite data shows that this method can be used as a powerful tool to explore and improve radioactive minerals mapping in HBRAs, the overall classification accuracy of Landsat8 OLI data using botanical technique is 80% and the Kappa Coefficient is 0.6. The overall classification accuracy using soil/rocks spectral signatures is 91% and the Kappa Coefficient is 0.7. Finally, the study demonstrated the general utility of remote sensing techniques in radioactive mineral surveys as well as environmental radiological assessments, particularly in resource-constrained settings. Numéro de notice : A2022-194 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.jag.2022.102700 Date de publication en ligne : 02/02/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2022.102700 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99956 [article]

Simultaneous retrieval of selected optical water quality indicators from Landsat-8, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-3 / Nima Pahlevan in Remote sensing of environment, vol 270 (March 2022)  

Public [article]  inRemote sensing of environment > vol 270 (March 2022) . - n° 112860 Titre : Simultaneous retrieval of selected optical water quality indicators from Landsat-8, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-3 Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Nima Pahlevan, Auteur ; Brandon Smith, Auteur ; Krista Alikas, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : n° 112860 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Traitement d'image optique [Termes IGN] analyse des mélanges spectraux [Termes IGN] appariement d'images [Termes IGN] apprentissage automatique [Termes IGN] chlorophylle [Termes IGN] classification par maximum de vraisemblance [Termes IGN] classification par Perceptron multicouche [Termes IGN] correction atmosphérique [Termes IGN] données multisources [Termes IGN] eaux côtières [Termes IGN] image Landsat-OLI [Termes IGN] image Sentinel-MSI [Termes IGN] image Sentinel-OLCI [Termes IGN] matière organique [Termes IGN] Oregon (Etats-Unis) [Termes IGN] qualité des eaux Résumé : (auteur) Constructing multi-source satellite-derived water quality (WQ) products in inland and nearshore coastal waters from the past, present, and future missions is a long-standing challenge. Despite inherent differences in sensors’ spectral capability, spatial sampling, and radiometric performance, research efforts focused on formulating, implementing, and validating universal WQ algorithms continue to evolve. This research extends a recently developed machine-learning (ML) model, i.e., Mixture Density Networks (MDNs) (Pahlevan et al., 2020; Smith et al., 2021), to the inverse problem of simultaneously retrieving WQ indicators, including chlorophyll-a (Chla), Total Suspended Solids (TSS), and the absorption by Colored Dissolved Organic Matter at 440 nm (acdom(440)), across a wide array of aquatic ecosystems. We use a database of in situ measurements to train and optimize MDN models developed for the relevant spectral measurements (400–800 nm) of the Operational Land Imager (OLI), MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI), and Ocean and Land Color Instrument (OLCI) aboard the Landsat-8, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-3 missions, respectively. Our two performance assessment approaches, namely hold-out and leave-one-out, suggest significant, albeit varying degrees of improvements with respect to second-best algorithms, depending on the sensor and WQ indicator (e.g., 68%, 75%, 117% improvements based on the hold-out method for Chla, TSS, and acdom(440), respectively from MSI-like spectra). Using these two assessment methods, we provide theoretical upper and lower bounds on model performance when evaluating similar and/or out-of-sample datasets. To evaluate multi-mission product consistency across broad spatial scales, map products are demonstrated for three near-concurrent OLI, MSI, and OLCI acquisitions. Overall, estimated TSS and acdom(440) from these three missions are consistent within the uncertainty of the model, but Chla maps from MSI and OLCI achieve greater accuracy than those from OLI. By applying two different atmospheric correction processors to OLI and MSI images, we also conduct matchup analyses to quantify the sensitivity of the MDN model and best-practice algorithms to uncertainties in reflectance products. Our model is less or equally sensitive to these uncertainties compared to other algorithms. Recognizing their uncertainties, MDN models can be applied as a global algorithm to enable harmonized retrievals of Chla, TSS, and acdom(440) in various aquatic ecosystems from multi-source satellite imagery. Local and/or regional ML models tuned with an apt data distribution (e.g., a subset of our dataset) should nevertheless be expected to outperform our global model. Numéro de notice : A2022-126 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : IMAGERIE Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112860 Date de publication en ligne : 04/01/2022 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112860 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99705 [article]

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]

Monitoring forest-savanna dynamics in the Guineo-Congolian transition area of the centre region of Cameroon / Le Bienfaiteur Sagang Takougoum (2022)  

Public Titre : Monitoring forest-savanna dynamics in the Guineo-Congolian transition area of the centre region of Cameroon Type de document : Thèse/HDR Auteurs : Le Bienfaiteur Sagang Takougoum, Auteur ; Bonaventure Sonké, Directeur de thèse ; Nicolas Barbier, Directeur de thèse Editeur : Yaoundé : Université de Yaoundé Année de publication : 2022 Importance : 166 p. Format : 21 x 30 cm Note générale : Bibliographie Thèse pour obtenir le grade de Docteur de l'Université de Yaoundé 1, Spécialité Botanique-Ecologie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de télédétection [Termes IGN] biomasse aérienne [Termes IGN] Cameroun [Termes IGN] carte d'utilisation du sol [Termes IGN] carte de la végétation [Termes IGN] classification dirigée [Termes IGN] classification par maximum de vraisemblance [Termes IGN] données de terrain [Termes IGN] données lidar [Termes IGN] données localisées 3D [Termes IGN] dynamique de la végétation [Termes IGN] écotone [Termes IGN] flore locale [Termes IGN] forêt [Termes IGN] Google Earth Engine [Termes IGN] image Landsat [Termes IGN] image SPOT 6 [Termes IGN] image SPOT 7 [Termes IGN] incendie de forêt [Termes IGN] modèle statistique [Termes IGN] savane [Termes IGN] surveillance forestière Index. décimale : THESE Thèses et HDR Résumé : (Auteur) Understanding the effects of global change (combining anthropic and climatic pressures) on biome distribution needs innovative approaches allowing to address the large spatial scales involved and the scarcity of available ground data. Characterizing vegetation dynamics at landscape to regional scale requires both a high level of spatial detail (resolution), generally obtained through precise field measurements, and a sufficient coverage of the land surface (extent) provided by satellite images. The difficulty usually lies between these two scales as both signal saturation from satellite data and ground sampling limitations contribute to inaccurate extrapolations. Airborne laser scanning (ALS) data has revolutionized the trade-off between spatial detail and landscape coverage as it gives accurate information of the vegetation’s structure over large areas which can be used to calibrate satellite data. Also recent satellite data of improved spectral and spatial resolutions (Sentinel 2) allow for detailed characterizations of compositional gradients in the vegetation, notably in terms of the abundance of broad functional/optical plant types. Another major obstacle comes from the lack of a temporal perspective on dynamics and disturbances. Growing satellite imagery archives over several decades (45 years; Landsat) and available computing facilities such as Google Earth Engine (GEE) provide new possibilities to track long term successional trajectories and detect significant disturbances (i.e. fire) at a fine spatial detail (30m) and relate them to the current structure and composition of the vegetation. With these game changing tools our objective was to track long-term dynamics of forest-savanna ecotone in the Guineo-Congolian transition area of the Central Region of Cameroon with induced changes in the vegetatio structure and composition within two contrasted scenarios of anthropogenic pressures: 1) the Nachtigal area which is targeted for the dam construction and subject to intense agricultural activities and 2) the Mpem et Djim National Park (MDNP) which has no management plan. The maximum likelihood classification of the Spot 6/7 image aided with the information from the canopy height derived from ALS data discriminated the vegetation types within the Nachtigal area with good accuracy (96.5%). Using field plots data in upscaling aboveground biomass (AGB) form field plots estimates to the satellite estimates with model-based approaches lead to a systematic overestimation in AGB density estimates and a root mean squared prediction error (RMSPE) of up to 65 Mg.ha−1 (90%), whereas calibration with ALS data (AGBALS) lead to low bias and a drop of ~30% in RMSPE (down to 43 Mg.ha−1, 58%) with little effect of the satellite sensor used. However, these results also confirm that, whatever the spectral indices used and attention paid to sensor quality and pre-processing, the signal is not sufficient to warrant accurate pixel wise predictions, because of large relative RMSPE, especially above (200–250 Mg.ha−1). The design-based approach, for which average AGB density values were attributed to mapped land cover classes, proved to be a simple and reliable alternative (for landscape to region level estimations), when trained with dense ALS samples. AGB and species diversity measured within 74 field inventory plots (distributed along a savanna to forest successional gradient) were higher for the vegetation located in the MDNP compared to their pairs in the Nachtigal area. The automated unsupervised long-term (45 years) land cover change monitoring from Landsat image archives based on GEE captured a consistent and regular pattern of forest progression into savanna at an average rate of 1% (ca. 6 km².year-1). No fire occurrence was captured for savanna that transited to forest within five years of monitoring. Distinct assemblages of spectral species are apparent in forest vegetation which is consistent with the age of transition. As forest gets older AGBALS recovers at a rate of 4.3 Mg.ha-1.year-1 in young forest stands ( Note de contenu : Chapter 1. Generalities 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Literature Review Chapter 2. Material And Methods 2.1 Material 2.2 Methods Chapter 3. Results And Discussion 3.1 Results 3.2 Discussion Chapter 4. Conclusion And Perspectives 4.1 Conclusion 4.2 Perspectives Numéro de notice : 26820 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : BIODIVERSITE/FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Thèse étrangère Note de thèse : Thèse de doctorat : Botanique-Ecologie : Yaoundé : 2022 Organisme de stage : Institut de Recherche pour le Développement IRD nature-HAL : Thèse DOI : sans Date de publication en ligne : 13/04/2022 En ligne : https://hal.inrae.fr/tel-03528875/document Format de la ressource électronique : URL Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=100465

A rapid assessment method for earthquake-induced landslide casualties based on GIS and logistic regression model / Yuqian Dai in Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, vol 13 n° 1 (2022)  

Public [article]  inGeomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk > vol 13 n° 1 (2022) . - pp 222 - 248 Titre : A rapid assessment method for earthquake-induced landslide casualties based on GIS and logistic regression model Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Yuqian Dai, Auteur ; Xianfu Bai, Auteur ; Gaozhong Nie, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2022 Article en page(s) : pp 222 - 248 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Analyse spatiale [Termes IGN] Chine [Termes IGN] classification par maximum de vraisemblance [Termes IGN] effondrement de terrain [Termes IGN] modèle de régression [Termes IGN] régression logistique [Termes IGN] secours d'urgence [Termes IGN] séisme [Termes IGN] système d'information géographique Résumé : (auteur) The accuracy of rapid earthquake assessment and the emergency assessment system for earthquake-induced damages could be substantially enhanced if the casualties triggered by earthquake-induced geological disasters, such as landslides, are subjected to comprehensive scientific evaluation. However, no credible solution for this purpose has been formulated yet. This study suggests a three-step rapid assessment method designed for earthquake-induced landslide casualties based on the GIS and an associated logistic regression model, as follows: (1) Partition of the region to be evaluated as a 1 km × 1 km grid in the GIS, with assignment of a certain amount of population to each of the grid cells as its population attribute. (2) Calculation of the death rate for each grid cell based upon its earthquake-induced landslide susceptibility attribute using the logistic regression model. (3) The earthquake-induced landslide casualties are first determined for each of the kilometer grid cells, and then for the entire region under evaluation. The proposed method was implemented to test the assessment of earthquake-induced landslide casualties in three earthquake-stricken regions. The study reveals the feasibility of the extensibility and applicability of the proposed rapid assessment method for earthquake-induced landslide casualties, and its suitability for similar assessments and calculations of other regions. Numéro de notice : A2022-036 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE Nature : Article DOI : 10.1080/19475705.2021.2017022 Date de publication en ligne : 29/12/2021 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2021.2017022 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99367 [article]

Assessment and prediction of urban growth for a mega-city using CA-Markov model / Veerendra Yadav in Geocarto international, vol 36 n° 17 ([15/09/2021])  

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Coral habitat mapping: a comparison between maximum likelihood, Bayesian and Dempster–Shafer classifiers / Mohammad Shawkat Hossain in Geocarto international, vol 36 n° 11 ([15/06/2021])  

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Uncertainty management for robust probabilistic change detection from multi-temporal Geoeye-1 imagery / Mahmoud Salah in Applied geomatics, vol 13 n° 2 (June 2021)  

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Indoor point cloud segmentation using iterative Gaussian mapping and improved model fitting / Bufan Zhao in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 58 n° 11 (November 2020)  

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Applying multi-temporal Landsat satellite data and Markov-cellular automata to predict forest cover change and forest degradation of sundarban reserve forest, Bangladesh / Mohammad Emran Hasan in Forests, vol 11 n° 9 (September 2020)  

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Can ensemble techniques improve coral reef habitat classification accuracy using multispectral data? / Mohammad Shawkat Hossain in Geocarto international, vol 35 n° 11 ([01/08/2020])  

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Classifying physiographic regimes on terrain and hydrologic factors for adaptive generalization of stream networks / Lauwrence V. Stanislawski in International journal of cartography, Vol 6 n° 1 (March 2020)  

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Application of geographic Information system and remote sensing in multiple criteria analysis to identify priority areas for biodiversity conservation in Vietnam / Xuan Dinh Vu (2020)  

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Evolution of sand encroachment using supervised classification of Landsat data during the period 1987–2011 in a part of Laâyoune-Tarfaya basin of Morocco / Ali Aydda in Geocarto international, vol 34 n° 13 ([15/10/2019])  

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Ailanthus altissima mapping from multi-temporal very high resolution satellite images / Cristina Tarantino in ISPRS Journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, vol 147 (January 2019)  

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