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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Remote Sensing Année : 2013

Comparison of optical sensors discrimination ability using spectral libraries

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In remote sensing, the ability to discriminate different land covers or material types is directly linked with the spectral resolution and sampling provided by the optical sensor. Previous studies showed that the spectral resolution is a critical issue, especially in complex environment. In spite of the increasing availability of hyperspectral data, multispectral optical sensors onboard various satellites are acquiring everyday a massive amount of data with a relatively poor spectral resolution (i.e. usually about 4 to 7 spectral bands). These remotely sensed data are intensively used for Earth observation regardless of their limited spectral resolution. In this paper, we studied seven of these optical sensors: Pleiades, QuickBird, SPOT5, Ikonos, Landsat TM, Formosat and Meris. This study focuses on the ability of each sensor to discriminate different materials according to its spectral resolution. We used four different spectral libraries which contains around 2500 spectra of materials and land covers with a fine spectral resolution. These spectra were convolved with the Relative Spectral Responses (RSR) of each sensor to create spectra at the sensors' resolutions. Then, these reduced spectra were compared using separability indexes (Divergence, Transformed divergence, Bhattacharyya, Jeffreys-Matusita) and machine learning tools. In the experiments, we highlighted that the spectral bands configuration could lead to important differences in classification accuracy according to the context of application (e.g. urban area).
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hal-01875856 , version 1 (17-09-2018)

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Germain Forestier, Jordi Inglada, Cédric Wemmert, Pierre Gancarski. Comparison of optical sensors discrimination ability using spectral libraries. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2013, 34 (7), pp.2327 - 2349. ⟨10.1080/01431161.2012.744488⟩. ⟨hal-01875856⟩
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