Landslide mapping from aerial photographs using change detection-based Markov random field

Li, Zhongbin and Shi, Wenzhong and Lu, Ping and Wang, Qunming and Miao, Zelang (2016) Landslide mapping from aerial photographs using change detection-based Markov random field. Remote Sensing of Environment, 187. pp. 76-90. ISSN 0034-4257

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Abstract

Landslide mapping (LM) is essential for hazard prevention, mitigation, and vulnerability assessment. Despite the great efforts over the past few years, there is room for improvement in its accuracy and efficiency. Existing LM is primarily achieved using field surveys or visual interpretation of remote sensing images. However, such methods are highly labor-intensive and time-consuming, particularly over large areas. Thus, in this paper a change detection-based Markov random field (CDMRF) method is proposed for near-automatic LM from aerial orthophotos. The proposed CDMRF is applied to a landslide-prone site with an area of approximately 40 km2 on Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Compared with the existing region-based level set evolution (RLSE), it has three main advantages: 1) it employs a more robust threshold method to generate the training samples; 2) it can identify landslides more accurately as it takes advantages of both the spectral and spatial contextual information of landslides; and 3) it needs little parameter tuning. Quantitative evaluation shows that it outperforms RLSE in the whole study area by almost 5.5% in Correctness and by 4% in Quality. To our knowledge, it is the first time CDMRF is used to LM from bitemporal aerial photographs. It is highly generic and has great potential for operational LM applications in large areas and also can be adapted for other sources of imagery data.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Remote Sensing of Environment
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This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Remote Sensing of Environment. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Remote Sensing of Environment, 187, 2016 DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.10.008
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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?? SOIL SCIENCECOMPUTERS IN EARTH SCIENCESGEOLOGY ??
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82166
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13 May 2017 02:09
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Yes
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