[ Objective] The study aimed to improve methods of monitoring Karst Rocky Desertification (KRD) control projects and increase the working efficiency. [Method] Based on remote sensing images with medium and high spat...[ Objective] The study aimed to improve methods of monitoring Karst Rocky Desertification (KRD) control projects and increase the working efficiency. [Method] Based on remote sensing images with medium and high spatial resolution, KRD control projects in Disi River basin in Puan County were monitored, that is, information of the project construction in the study area was extracted using supervised classification and hu- man-computer interactive interpretation, and the monitoring results were testified with the aid of GPS. [Result] It was feasible to monitor KRD con- trol projects in Disi River basin based on remote sensing images with medium and high resolution, and the monitoring accuracy was satisfactory, reaching above 80% or 90%, so the method is worthy of popularizing. [ Conclusion] Remote sensing images with medium and high resolution can be used to monitor other KRD control Droiects.展开更多
Accurate information on the location and magnitude of vegetation change in scenic areas can guide the configuration of tourism facilities and the formulation of vegetation protection measures.High spatial resolution r...Accurate information on the location and magnitude of vegetation change in scenic areas can guide the configuration of tourism facilities and the formulation of vegetation protection measures.High spatial resolution remote sensing images can be used to detect subtle vegetation changes.The major objective of this study was to map and quantify forest vegetation changes in a national scenic location,the Purple Mountains of Nanjing,China,using multi-temporal cross-sensor high spatial resolution satellite images to identify the main drivers of the vegetation changes and provide a reference for sustainable management.We used Quickbird images acquired in 2004,IKONOS images acquired in 2009,and WorldView2 images acquired in 2015.Four pixel-based direct change detection methods including the normalized difference vegetation index difference method,multi-index integrated change analysis(MIICA),principal component analysis,and spectral gradient difference analysis were compared in terms of their change detection performances.Subsequently,the best pixel-based detection method in conjunction with object-oriented image analysis was used to extract subtle forest vegetation changes.An accuracy assessment using the stratified random sampling points was conducted to evaluate the performance of the change detection results.The results showed that the MIICA method was the best pixel-based change detection method.And the object-oriented MIICA with an overall accuracy of 0.907 and a kappa coefficient of 0.846 was superior to the pixel-based MIICA.From 2004 to 2009,areas of vegetation gain mainly occurred around the periphery of the study area,while areas of vegetation loss were observed in the interior and along the boundary of the study area due to construction activities,which contributed to 79%of the total area of vegetation loss.During 2009–2015,the greening initiatives around the construction areas increased the forest vegetation coverage,accounting for 84%of the total area of vegetation gain.In spite of this,vegetation loss occurred in the interior of the Purple Mountains due to infrastructure development that caused conversion from vegetation to impervious areas.We recommend that:(1)a local multi-agency team inspect and assess law enforcement regarding natural resource utilization;and(2)strengthen environmental awareness education.展开更多
Contemporary PET scanners for clinical use have spatial-resolution of 4 - 5 mm, caused by fundamental factors in medical imaging: detector sizes, free path of positrons, and non-colinearity uncertainty of annihilation...Contemporary PET scanners for clinical use have spatial-resolution of 4 - 5 mm, caused by fundamental factors in medical imaging: detector sizes, free path of positrons, and non-colinearity uncertainty of annihilation photon-pairs. The drawback in resolution significantly restrained the sensitivity of PET in imaging small lesions, which could be either early-stage cancers or small metastasis. In this study, the principle for a novel scanning mode to acquire high spatial-resolution images is proposed for clinical PET scanners. The concept of equivalent position was first proposed as different angular orientations of the scanner ring, at which comparable images could be achieved. Due to this concept, a typical static PET scan can be separated into m (m ≥ 2) equivalent sub-scans at different equivalent positions, when the scanner ring is systematically adjusted to m equivalent-positions of equal distance within one detector size. In this case each detector is virtually divided into m equal sub-detectors, without physical minimizing the detector size, and imaging contributions from every 1/m part of the detector can be determined by an analytically matrix, since there are m variables and m sub-scans. This novel concept is quite feasible to contemporary design because the high spatial resolution working modes (m ≥ 2) only demand the scanner to be slightly adjustable to other angular orientations. Adding high spatial resolutions modes to the scanner only has trifling influence on contrast resolutions as all imaging events at each sub-scan are independent. The time for performing a high-resolution scan could be comparable to a typical PET scan, as long as the Poisson noises are insignificant to low-uptake voxels. As a result, for a typical scanner design e.g. 80 cm in diameter with 18F as tracers, the spatial resolution of double sub-scans (m = 2) is 2.56 mm, and 2.19 mm for triple sub-scans (m = 3), which are significant improvements. The novelty of high spatial resolution design is compatible to digital PET or any other technological evolutions.展开更多
High Spatial and Spectral Resolution(HSSR)remote-sensing images can provide rich spectral bands and detailed ground information,but there is a relative lack of research on this new type of remote-sensing data.Although...High Spatial and Spectral Resolution(HSSR)remote-sensing images can provide rich spectral bands and detailed ground information,but there is a relative lack of research on this new type of remote-sensing data.Although there are already some HSSR datasets for deep learning model training and testing,the data volume of these datasets is small,resulting in low classification accuracy and weak generalization ability of the trained models.In this paper,an HSSR dataset Luojia-HSSR is constructed based on aerial hyperspectral imagery of southern Shenyang City of Liaoning Province in China.To our knowledge,it is the largest HSSR dataset to date,with 6438 pairs of 256×256 sized samples(including 3480 pairs in the training set,2209 pairs in the test set,and 749 pairs in the validation set),covering area of 161 km2 with spatial resolution 0.75 m,249 Visible and Near-Infrared(VNIR)spectral bands,and corresponding to 23 classes of field-validated ground coverage.It is an ideal experimental data for spatial-spectral feature extraction.Furthermore,a new deep learning model 3D-HRNet for interpreting HSSR images is proposed.The conv-neck in HRNet is modified to better mine the spatial information of the images.Then,a 3D convolution module with attention mechanism is designed to capture the global-local fine spectral information simultaneously.Subsequently,the 3D convolution is inserted into the HRNet to optimize the performance.The experiments show that the 3D-HRNet model has good interpreting ability for the Luojia-HSSR dataset with the Frequency Weighted Intersection over Union(FWIoU)reaching 80.54%,indicating that the Luojia-HSSR dataset constructed in this paper and the proposed 3D-HRnet model have good applicable prospects for processing HSSR remote sensing images.展开更多
由于受到硬件条件的限制,通常难以获得具有高分辨率(HR)的遥感图像。利用单幅图像超分辨率(SISR)技术对低分辨率(LR)遥感图像进行超分辨率重建是获取高分辨率遥感图像的常用方法。近年来,在图像超分辨率领域引入的卷积神经网络(CNN)改...由于受到硬件条件的限制,通常难以获得具有高分辨率(HR)的遥感图像。利用单幅图像超分辨率(SISR)技术对低分辨率(LR)遥感图像进行超分辨率重建是获取高分辨率遥感图像的常用方法。近年来,在图像超分辨率领域引入的卷积神经网络(CNN)改进了图像重建性能。然而,现有的基于CNN的超分辨率模型通常使用低阶注意力机制提取深层特征,其表征能力有待提高,且常规卷积的感受野有限,缺乏对远距离依赖关系的学习。为了解决以上问题,提出了一种基于递归门控卷积的遥感图像超分辨率方法RGCSR。该方法引入递归门控卷积g n Conv学习全局依赖和局部细节,通过高阶空间交互来获取高阶特征。首先,使用由高阶交互子模块(HorBlock)和前馈神经网络(FFN)组成的高阶交互——前馈神经网络模块(HFB)提取高阶特征。其次,利用由通道注意力(CA)和g n Conv构建的特征优化模块(FOB)优化各个中间模块的输出特征。最后,在多个数据集上的对比结果表明,RGCSR比现有的基于CNN的超分辨率方法具备更好的重建性能和视觉效果。展开更多
Vegetation is crucial for wetland ecosystems.Human activities and climate changes are increasingly threatening wetland ecosystems.Combining satellite images and deep learning for classifying marsh vegetation communiti...Vegetation is crucial for wetland ecosystems.Human activities and climate changes are increasingly threatening wetland ecosystems.Combining satellite images and deep learning for classifying marsh vegetation communities has faced great challenges because of its coarse spatial resolution and limited spectral bands.This study aimed to propose a method to classify marsh vegetation using multi-resolution multispectral and hyperspectral images,combining super-resolution techniques and a novel self-constructing graph attention neural network(SGA-Net)algorithm.The SGA-Net algorithm includes a decoding layer(SCE-Net)to preciselyfine marsh vegetation classification in Honghe National Nature Reserve,Northeast China.The results indicated that the hyperspectral reconstruction images based on the super-resolution convolutional neural network(SRCNN)obtained higher accuracy with a peak signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR)of 28.87 and structural similarity(SSIM)of 0.76 in spatial quality and root mean squared error(RMSE)of 0.11 and R^(2) of 0.63 in spectral quality.The improvement of classification accuracy(MIoU)by enhanced super-resolution generative adversarial network(ESRGAN)(6.19%)was greater than that of SRCNN(4.33%)and super-resolution generative adversarial network(SRGAN)(3.64%).In most classification schemes,the SGA-Net outperformed DeepLabV3+and SegFormer algorithms for marsh vegetation and achieved the highest F1-score(78.47%).This study demonstrated that collaborative use of super-resolution reconstruction and deep learning is an effective approach for marsh vegetation mapping.展开更多
The application of remote sensing monitoring techniques plays a crucial role in evaluating and governing the vast amount of ecological construction projects in China. However, extracting information of ecological engi...The application of remote sensing monitoring techniques plays a crucial role in evaluating and governing the vast amount of ecological construction projects in China. However, extracting information of ecological engineering target through high-resolution satellite image is arduous due to the unique topography and complicated spatial pattern on the Loess Plateau of China. As a result, enhancing classification accuracy is a huge challenge to high-resolution image processing techniques. Image processing techniques have a definitive effect on image properties and the selection of different parameters may change the final classification accuracy during post-classification processing. The common method of eliminating noise and smoothing image is majority filtering. However, the filter function may modify the original classified image and the final accuracy. The aim of this study is to develop an efficient and accurate post-processing technique for acquiring information of soil and water conservation engineering, on the Loess Plateau of China, using SPOT image with 2.5 rn resolution. We argue that it is vital to optimize satellite image filtering parameters for special areas and purposes, which focus on monitoring ecological construction projects. We want to know how image filtering influences final classified results and which filtering kernel is optimum. The study design used a series of window sizes to filter the original classified image, and then assess the accuracy of each output map and image quality. We measured the relationship between filtering window size and classification accuracy, and optimized the post-processing techniques of SPOT5satellite images. We conclude that (1) smoothing with the majority filter is sensitive to the information accuracy of soil and water conservation engineering, and (2) for SPOT5 2.5 m image, the 5×5 pixel majority filter is most suitable kernel for extracting information of ecological construction sites in the Loess Plateau of China.展开更多
Scintillators are the vital component in X-ray perspective image technology that is applied in medical imaging,industrial nondestructive testing,and safety testing.But the high cost and small size of single-crystal co...Scintillators are the vital component in X-ray perspective image technology that is applied in medical imaging,industrial nondestructive testing,and safety testing.But the high cost and small size of single-crystal commercialized scintillators limit their practical application.Here,a series of Tb^(3+)-doped borosilicate glass(BSG)scintillators with big production size,low cost,and high spatial resolution are designed and fabricated.The structural,photoluminescent,and scintillant properties are systematically investigated.Benefiting from excellent transmittance(87%at 600 nm),high interquantum efficiency(60.7%),and high X-ray excited luminescence(217%of Bi4Ge3O12),the optimal sample shows superhigh spatial resolution(exceeding 20 lp/mm).This research suggests that Tb^(3+)-doped BSG scintillators have potential applications in the static X-ray imaging field.展开更多
基金Supported by the Key Science and Technology Projects of Guizhou Province,China[(2007)3017,(2008)3022]Major Special Project of Guizhou Province,China(2006-6006-2)
文摘[ Objective] The study aimed to improve methods of monitoring Karst Rocky Desertification (KRD) control projects and increase the working efficiency. [Method] Based on remote sensing images with medium and high spatial resolution, KRD control projects in Disi River basin in Puan County were monitored, that is, information of the project construction in the study area was extracted using supervised classification and hu- man-computer interactive interpretation, and the monitoring results were testified with the aid of GPS. [Result] It was feasible to monitor KRD con- trol projects in Disi River basin based on remote sensing images with medium and high resolution, and the monitoring accuracy was satisfactory, reaching above 80% or 90%, so the method is worthy of popularizing. [ Conclusion] Remote sensing images with medium and high resolution can be used to monitor other KRD control Droiects.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31670552)the PAPD(Priority Academic Program Development)of Jiangsu provincial universities and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation funded projectthis work was performed while the corresponding author acted as an awardee of the 2017 Qinglan Project sponsored by Jiangsu Province。
文摘Accurate information on the location and magnitude of vegetation change in scenic areas can guide the configuration of tourism facilities and the formulation of vegetation protection measures.High spatial resolution remote sensing images can be used to detect subtle vegetation changes.The major objective of this study was to map and quantify forest vegetation changes in a national scenic location,the Purple Mountains of Nanjing,China,using multi-temporal cross-sensor high spatial resolution satellite images to identify the main drivers of the vegetation changes and provide a reference for sustainable management.We used Quickbird images acquired in 2004,IKONOS images acquired in 2009,and WorldView2 images acquired in 2015.Four pixel-based direct change detection methods including the normalized difference vegetation index difference method,multi-index integrated change analysis(MIICA),principal component analysis,and spectral gradient difference analysis were compared in terms of their change detection performances.Subsequently,the best pixel-based detection method in conjunction with object-oriented image analysis was used to extract subtle forest vegetation changes.An accuracy assessment using the stratified random sampling points was conducted to evaluate the performance of the change detection results.The results showed that the MIICA method was the best pixel-based change detection method.And the object-oriented MIICA with an overall accuracy of 0.907 and a kappa coefficient of 0.846 was superior to the pixel-based MIICA.From 2004 to 2009,areas of vegetation gain mainly occurred around the periphery of the study area,while areas of vegetation loss were observed in the interior and along the boundary of the study area due to construction activities,which contributed to 79%of the total area of vegetation loss.During 2009–2015,the greening initiatives around the construction areas increased the forest vegetation coverage,accounting for 84%of the total area of vegetation gain.In spite of this,vegetation loss occurred in the interior of the Purple Mountains due to infrastructure development that caused conversion from vegetation to impervious areas.We recommend that:(1)a local multi-agency team inspect and assess law enforcement regarding natural resource utilization;and(2)strengthen environmental awareness education.
文摘Contemporary PET scanners for clinical use have spatial-resolution of 4 - 5 mm, caused by fundamental factors in medical imaging: detector sizes, free path of positrons, and non-colinearity uncertainty of annihilation photon-pairs. The drawback in resolution significantly restrained the sensitivity of PET in imaging small lesions, which could be either early-stage cancers or small metastasis. In this study, the principle for a novel scanning mode to acquire high spatial-resolution images is proposed for clinical PET scanners. The concept of equivalent position was first proposed as different angular orientations of the scanner ring, at which comparable images could be achieved. Due to this concept, a typical static PET scan can be separated into m (m ≥ 2) equivalent sub-scans at different equivalent positions, when the scanner ring is systematically adjusted to m equivalent-positions of equal distance within one detector size. In this case each detector is virtually divided into m equal sub-detectors, without physical minimizing the detector size, and imaging contributions from every 1/m part of the detector can be determined by an analytically matrix, since there are m variables and m sub-scans. This novel concept is quite feasible to contemporary design because the high spatial resolution working modes (m ≥ 2) only demand the scanner to be slightly adjustable to other angular orientations. Adding high spatial resolutions modes to the scanner only has trifling influence on contrast resolutions as all imaging events at each sub-scan are independent. The time for performing a high-resolution scan could be comparable to a typical PET scan, as long as the Poisson noises are insignificant to low-uptake voxels. As a result, for a typical scanner design e.g. 80 cm in diameter with 18F as tracers, the spatial resolution of double sub-scans (m = 2) is 2.56 mm, and 2.19 mm for triple sub-scans (m = 3), which are significant improvements. The novelty of high spatial resolution design is compatible to digital PET or any other technological evolutions.
基金supported by the Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant number 92038301]The research was also supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant number 41971295]+1 种基金the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province[grant number 2020CFA003]the Special Fund of Hubei Luojia Laboratory.
文摘High Spatial and Spectral Resolution(HSSR)remote-sensing images can provide rich spectral bands and detailed ground information,but there is a relative lack of research on this new type of remote-sensing data.Although there are already some HSSR datasets for deep learning model training and testing,the data volume of these datasets is small,resulting in low classification accuracy and weak generalization ability of the trained models.In this paper,an HSSR dataset Luojia-HSSR is constructed based on aerial hyperspectral imagery of southern Shenyang City of Liaoning Province in China.To our knowledge,it is the largest HSSR dataset to date,with 6438 pairs of 256×256 sized samples(including 3480 pairs in the training set,2209 pairs in the test set,and 749 pairs in the validation set),covering area of 161 km2 with spatial resolution 0.75 m,249 Visible and Near-Infrared(VNIR)spectral bands,and corresponding to 23 classes of field-validated ground coverage.It is an ideal experimental data for spatial-spectral feature extraction.Furthermore,a new deep learning model 3D-HRNet for interpreting HSSR images is proposed.The conv-neck in HRNet is modified to better mine the spatial information of the images.Then,a 3D convolution module with attention mechanism is designed to capture the global-local fine spectral information simultaneously.Subsequently,the 3D convolution is inserted into the HRNet to optimize the performance.The experiments show that the 3D-HRNet model has good interpreting ability for the Luojia-HSSR dataset with the Frequency Weighted Intersection over Union(FWIoU)reaching 80.54%,indicating that the Luojia-HSSR dataset constructed in this paper and the proposed 3D-HRnet model have good applicable prospects for processing HSSR remote sensing images.
文摘由于受到硬件条件的限制,通常难以获得具有高分辨率(HR)的遥感图像。利用单幅图像超分辨率(SISR)技术对低分辨率(LR)遥感图像进行超分辨率重建是获取高分辨率遥感图像的常用方法。近年来,在图像超分辨率领域引入的卷积神经网络(CNN)改进了图像重建性能。然而,现有的基于CNN的超分辨率模型通常使用低阶注意力机制提取深层特征,其表征能力有待提高,且常规卷积的感受野有限,缺乏对远距离依赖关系的学习。为了解决以上问题,提出了一种基于递归门控卷积的遥感图像超分辨率方法RGCSR。该方法引入递归门控卷积g n Conv学习全局依赖和局部细节,通过高阶空间交互来获取高阶特征。首先,使用由高阶交互子模块(HorBlock)和前馈神经网络(FFN)组成的高阶交互——前馈神经网络模块(HFB)提取高阶特征。其次,利用由通道注意力(CA)和g n Conv构建的特征优化模块(FOB)优化各个中间模块的输出特征。最后,在多个数据集上的对比结果表明,RGCSR比现有的基于CNN的超分辨率方法具备更好的重建性能和视觉效果。
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China:[Grant Number 21976043,42122009]Guangxi Science&Technology Program:[Grant Number GuikeAD20159037]+1 种基金‘Ba Gui Scholars’program of the provincial government of Guangxi,and the Guilin University of Technology Foundation:[Grant Number GUTQDJJ2017096]Innovation Project of Guangxi Graduate Education:[Grant Number YCSW2022328].
文摘Vegetation is crucial for wetland ecosystems.Human activities and climate changes are increasingly threatening wetland ecosystems.Combining satellite images and deep learning for classifying marsh vegetation communities has faced great challenges because of its coarse spatial resolution and limited spectral bands.This study aimed to propose a method to classify marsh vegetation using multi-resolution multispectral and hyperspectral images,combining super-resolution techniques and a novel self-constructing graph attention neural network(SGA-Net)algorithm.The SGA-Net algorithm includes a decoding layer(SCE-Net)to preciselyfine marsh vegetation classification in Honghe National Nature Reserve,Northeast China.The results indicated that the hyperspectral reconstruction images based on the super-resolution convolutional neural network(SRCNN)obtained higher accuracy with a peak signal-to-noise ratio(PSNR)of 28.87 and structural similarity(SSIM)of 0.76 in spatial quality and root mean squared error(RMSE)of 0.11 and R^(2) of 0.63 in spectral quality.The improvement of classification accuracy(MIoU)by enhanced super-resolution generative adversarial network(ESRGAN)(6.19%)was greater than that of SRCNN(4.33%)and super-resolution generative adversarial network(SRGAN)(3.64%).In most classification schemes,the SGA-Net outperformed DeepLabV3+and SegFormer algorithms for marsh vegetation and achieved the highest F1-score(78.47%).This study demonstrated that collaborative use of super-resolution reconstruction and deep learning is an effective approach for marsh vegetation mapping.
基金Supported by the Foundation of Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Physical Geographic Environment(2022PGE010)The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,CHD(300102353508)+5 种基金the Key Laboratory of Southeast Coast Marine Information Intelligent Perception and Application,MNR(22101)National Natural Science Foundation of China(61801211)Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20221478)Hong Kong Scholars Program(XJ2022043)S&T Program of Hebei(21567624H)Open Project Program of Key Laboratory of Meteorology and Ecological Environment of Hebei Province(Z202102YH)。
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.70325002)the Knowledge Innovation Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.KZCX3-SW-423).
文摘The application of remote sensing monitoring techniques plays a crucial role in evaluating and governing the vast amount of ecological construction projects in China. However, extracting information of ecological engineering target through high-resolution satellite image is arduous due to the unique topography and complicated spatial pattern on the Loess Plateau of China. As a result, enhancing classification accuracy is a huge challenge to high-resolution image processing techniques. Image processing techniques have a definitive effect on image properties and the selection of different parameters may change the final classification accuracy during post-classification processing. The common method of eliminating noise and smoothing image is majority filtering. However, the filter function may modify the original classified image and the final accuracy. The aim of this study is to develop an efficient and accurate post-processing technique for acquiring information of soil and water conservation engineering, on the Loess Plateau of China, using SPOT image with 2.5 rn resolution. We argue that it is vital to optimize satellite image filtering parameters for special areas and purposes, which focus on monitoring ecological construction projects. We want to know how image filtering influences final classified results and which filtering kernel is optimum. The study design used a series of window sizes to filter the original classified image, and then assess the accuracy of each output map and image quality. We measured the relationship between filtering window size and classification accuracy, and optimized the post-processing techniques of SPOT5satellite images. We conclude that (1) smoothing with the majority filter is sensitive to the information accuracy of soil and water conservation engineering, and (2) for SPOT5 2.5 m image, the 5×5 pixel majority filter is most suitable kernel for extracting information of ecological construction sites in the Loess Plateau of China.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(No.11974315)the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(No.LZ20E020002)。
文摘Scintillators are the vital component in X-ray perspective image technology that is applied in medical imaging,industrial nondestructive testing,and safety testing.But the high cost and small size of single-crystal commercialized scintillators limit their practical application.Here,a series of Tb^(3+)-doped borosilicate glass(BSG)scintillators with big production size,low cost,and high spatial resolution are designed and fabricated.The structural,photoluminescent,and scintillant properties are systematically investigated.Benefiting from excellent transmittance(87%at 600 nm),high interquantum efficiency(60.7%),and high X-ray excited luminescence(217%of Bi4Ge3O12),the optimal sample shows superhigh spatial resolution(exceeding 20 lp/mm).This research suggests that Tb^(3+)-doped BSG scintillators have potential applications in the static X-ray imaging field.