Ebook: Remote Sensing Image Analysis: Including The Spatial Domain

Remote Sensing image analysis is mostly done using only spectral information on a pixel by pixel basis. Information captured in neighbouring cells, or information about patterns surrounding the pixel of interest often provides useful supplementary information. This book presents a wide range of innovative and advanced image processing methods for including spatial information, captured by neighbouring pixels in remotely sensed images, to improve image interpretation or image classification. Presented methods include different types of variogram analysis, various methods for texture quantification, smart kernel operators, pattern recognition techniques, image segmentation methods, sub-pixel methods, wavelets and advanced spectral mixture analysis techniques. Apart from explaining the working methods in detail a wide range of applications is presented covering land cover and land use mapping, environmental applications such as heavy metal pollution, urban mapping and geological applications to detect hydrocarbon seeps.

The book is meant for professionals, PhD students and graduates who use remote sensing image analysis, image interpretation and image classification in their work related to disciplines such as geography, geology, botany, ecology, forestry, cartography, soil science, engineering and urban and regional planning.

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Remote Sensing image analysis is mostly done using only spectral information on a pixel by pixel basis. Information captured in neighbouring cells, or information about patterns surrounding the pixel of interest often provides useful supplementary information. This book presents a wide range of innovative and advanced image processing methods for including spatial information, captured by neighbouring pixels in remotely sensed images, to improve image interpretation or image classification. Presented methods include different types of variogram analysis, various methods for texture quantification, smart kernel operators, pattern recognition techniques, image segmentation methods, sub-pixel methods, wavelets and advanced spectral mixture analysis techniques. Apart from explaining the working methods in detail a wide range of applications is presented covering land cover and land use mapping, environmental applications such as heavy metal pollution, urban mapping and geological applications to detect hydrocarbon seeps.

The book is meant for professionals, PhD students and graduates who use remote sensing image analysis, image interpretation and image classification in their work related to disciplines such as geography, geology, botany, ecology, forestry, cartography, soil science, engineering and urban and regional planning.

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Remote Sensing image analysis is mostly done using only spectral information on a pixel by pixel basis. Information captured in neighbouring cells, or information about patterns surrounding the pixel of interest often provides useful supplementary information. This book presents a wide range of innovative and advanced image processing methods for including spatial information, captured by neighbouring pixels in remotely sensed images, to improve image interpretation or image classification. Presented methods include different types of variogram analysis, various methods for texture quantification, smart kernel operators, pattern recognition techniques, image segmentation methods, sub-pixel methods, wavelets and advanced spectral mixture analysis techniques. Apart from explaining the working methods in detail a wide range of applications is presented covering land cover and land use mapping, environmental applications such as heavy metal pollution, urban mapping and geological applications to detect hydrocarbon seeps.

The book is meant for professionals, PhD students and graduates who use remote sensing image analysis, image interpretation and image classification in their work related to disciplines such as geography, geology, botany, ecology, forestry, cartography, soil science, engineering and urban and regional planning.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Basics of Remote Sensing....Pages 1-15
Spatial Variability, Mapping Methods, Image Analysis and Pixels....Pages 17-35
Sub-Pixel Methods in Remote Sensing....Pages 37-49
Resolution Manipulation and Sub-Pixel Mapping....Pages 51-70
Multiscale Object-Specific Analysis (MOSA): An Integrative Approach for Multiscale Landscape Analysis....Pages 71-92
Variogram Derived Image Texture for Classifying Remotely Sensed Images....Pages 93-111
Merging Spectral and Textural Information for Classifying Remotely Sensed Images....Pages 113-136
Contextual Image Analysis Methods for Urban Applications....Pages 137-152
Pixel-Based, Stratified and Contextual Analysis of Hyperspectral Imagery....Pages 153-180
Variable Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis for Geology Applications....Pages 181-200
A Contextual Algorithm for Detection of Mineral Alteration Halos with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing....Pages 201-210
Image Segmentation Methods for Object-based Analysis and Classification....Pages 211-236
Multiscale Feature Extraction from Images Using Wavelets....Pages 237-270
Contextual Analyses of Remotely Sensed Images for the Operational Classification of Land Cover in United Kingdom....Pages 271-290
A Contextual Approach to Classify Mediterranean Heterogeneous Vegetation using the Spatial Reclassification Kernel (SPARK) and DAIS7915 Imagery....Pages 291-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-359

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Remote Sensing image analysis is mostly done using only spectral information on a pixel by pixel basis. Information captured in neighbouring cells, or information about patterns surrounding the pixel of interest often provides useful supplementary information. This book presents a wide range of innovative and advanced image processing methods for including spatial information, captured by neighbouring pixels in remotely sensed images, to improve image interpretation or image classification. Presented methods include different types of variogram analysis, various methods for texture quantification, smart kernel operators, pattern recognition techniques, image segmentation methods, sub-pixel methods, wavelets and advanced spectral mixture analysis techniques. Apart from explaining the working methods in detail a wide range of applications is presented covering land cover and land use mapping, environmental applications such as heavy metal pollution, urban mapping and geological applications to detect hydrocarbon seeps.

The book is meant for professionals, PhD students and graduates who use remote sensing image analysis, image interpretation and image classification in their work related to disciplines such as geography, geology, botany, ecology, forestry, cartography, soil science, engineering and urban and regional planning.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Basics of Remote Sensing....Pages 1-15
Spatial Variability, Mapping Methods, Image Analysis and Pixels....Pages 17-35
Sub-Pixel Methods in Remote Sensing....Pages 37-49
Resolution Manipulation and Sub-Pixel Mapping....Pages 51-70
Multiscale Object-Specific Analysis (MOSA): An Integrative Approach for Multiscale Landscape Analysis....Pages 71-92
Variogram Derived Image Texture for Classifying Remotely Sensed Images....Pages 93-111
Merging Spectral and Textural Information for Classifying Remotely Sensed Images....Pages 113-136
Contextual Image Analysis Methods for Urban Applications....Pages 137-152
Pixel-Based, Stratified and Contextual Analysis of Hyperspectral Imagery....Pages 153-180
Variable Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis for Geology Applications....Pages 181-200
A Contextual Algorithm for Detection of Mineral Alteration Halos with Hyperspectral Remote Sensing....Pages 201-210
Image Segmentation Methods for Object-based Analysis and Classification....Pages 211-236
Multiscale Feature Extraction from Images Using Wavelets....Pages 237-270
Contextual Analyses of Remotely Sensed Images for the Operational Classification of Land Cover in United Kingdom....Pages 271-290
A Contextual Approach to Classify Mediterranean Heterogeneous Vegetation using the Spatial Reclassification Kernel (SPARK) and DAIS7915 Imagery....Pages 291-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-359
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