Sub-pixel mapping with point constraints

Wang, Q. and Zhang, C. and Atkinson, P.M. (2020) Sub-pixel mapping with point constraints. Remote Sensing of Environment, 244: 111817. ISSN 0034-4257

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Abstract

Remote sensing images contain abundant land cover information. Due to the complex nature of land cover, however, mixed pixels exist widely in remote sensing images. Sub-pixel mapping (SPM) is a technique for predicting the spatial distribution of land cover classes within mixed pixels. As an ill-posed inverse problem, the uncertainty of prediction cannot be eliminated and hinders the production of accurate sub-pixel maps. In contrast to conventional methods that use continuous geospatial information (e.g., images) to enhance SPM, in this paper, a SPM method with point constraints into SPM is proposed. The method of fusing point constraints is implemented based on the pixel swapping algorithm (PSA) and utilizes the auxiliary point information to reduce the uncertainty in the SPM process and increase map accuracy. The point data are incorporated into both the initialization and optimization processes of PSA. Experiments were performed on three images to validate the proposed method. The influences of the performances were also investigated under different numbers of point data, different spatial characters of land cover and different zoom factors. The results show that by using the point data, the proposed SPM method can separate more small-sized targets from aggregated artifacts and the accuracies are increased obviously. The proposed method is also more accurate than the advanced radial basis function interpolation-based method. The advantage of using point data is more evident when the point data size and scale factor are large and the spatial autocorrelation of the land cover is small. As the amount of point data increases, however, the increase in accuracy becomes less noticeable. Furthermore, the SPM accuracy can still be increased even if the point data and coarse proportions contain errors. © 2020 Elsevier Inc.

Item Type:

Journal Article

Journal or Publication Title:

Remote Sensing of Environment

Additional Information:

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, 244, 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111817

Uncontrolled Keywords:

/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1111

Subjects:

?? downscalingpixel swapping algorithm (psa)point constraintsremote sensing imagessub-pixel mapping (spm)super-resolution mappingaggregatesimage enhancementinverse problemsmappingradial basis function networksremote sensingspatial variables measurementconven ??

Departments:

Faculty of Science and Technology > Lancaster Environment Centre

ID Code:

144001

Deposited By:

ep_importer_pure

Deposited On:

14 May 2020 09:30

Refereed?:

Yes

Published?:

Published