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High-Resolution Remote Sensing Datasets for Land Surface Analysis: Calibration and Validation

A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 5695

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College of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Rd., Shanghai 200092, China
Interests: spatial data quality; validation of global land covers dataset
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Interests: hyperspectral remote sensing; validation of remote sensing data and products
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College of Information Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China
Interests: spatial sampling; accuracy assessment of land cover map

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Dear Colleagues,

High-resolution remote sensing datasets have become an indispensable data source for land surface analysis with the rapid development of various remote sensing platforms. Land surface information or land cover is generally extracted via classification or image analysis from remote sensing datasets. Particularly, a variety of satellite sensors have provided long time series and large-scale datasets for large scale and multitemporal representation of the land surface. However, the data quality of the remote sensing datasets may significantly affect the trustworthiness and reliability of the derived land cover information. The quality of the datasets involves several dimensions, such as positional accuracy, radiometric accuracy, thematic accuracy, segmentation/classification accuracy and analysis accuracy. Geometric or radiometric calibration are necessary operations to improve the accuracy of the remote sensing datasets. Furthermore, the data quality measures, spatial sampling methods, etc., provide significant data quality reference for the efficacy of the dataset’s applications. Therefore, the calibration and validation of high-resolution remote sensing datasets plays an important and fundamental role in remote sensing.

This Special Issue aims for studies covering calibration and validation of different high-resolution remote sensing datasets acquired by different sensors and platforms, such as multi-spectral and hyperspectral datasets, active and passive microwave dataset, Lidar and laser scanning datasets, spaceborne/airborne and terrestrial platforms. Topics may cover anything from the geometric or radiometric calibration technology for different remoting sensors, to quality assessment of various remote sensing datasets, derived products or analysis results. Hence, articles may address, but are not limited, to the following topics:

  • Remote sensing datasets quality assessment;
  • Accuracy assessment of land cover map;
  • Spatial sampling;
  • Multisource data integration;
  • Long time series analysis;
  • Geometric calibration;
  • Radiometric calibration.

Prof. Dr. Xiaohua Tong
Prof. Dr. Huan Xie
Dr. Zhenhua Wang
Dr. Yanmin Jin
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Keywords

  • high-resolution remote sensing datasets
  • land surface analysis
  • land cover map
  • data quality
  • accuracy assessment
  • sampling
  • validation
  • calibration

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A Separate Calibration Method of Laser Pointing and Ranging for the GF-7 Satellite Laser That Does Not Require Field Detectors
by Ren Liu, Junfeng Xie, Chaopeng Xu, Junze Zeng, Fan Mo and Xiaomeng Yang
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(23), 5935; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14235935 - 23 Nov 2022
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Satellite laser altimeters have been widely used in the surveying, mapping, forestry, and polar regions and by other industries due to their excellent elevation measurement accuracy. Satellite laser on-orbit geometry calibration is a necessary means to ensure elevation accuracy. This study proposes an [...] Read more.
Satellite laser altimeters have been widely used in the surveying, mapping, forestry, and polar regions and by other industries due to their excellent elevation measurement accuracy. Satellite laser on-orbit geometry calibration is a necessary means to ensure elevation accuracy. This study proposes an iterative geometry calibration method for satellite laser altimeter pointing and ranging separation that does not require the use of field detectors. The DSM data were first used to complete the laser pointing calibration, and then the laser footprint elevation was measured accurately to complete the laser ranging calibration. The iterative calibration experiment was repeated until the convergence condition (i.e., the laser point difference was less than 1 × 10-5 degrees and the laser ranging difference was less than 0.01 m) was met, with the calibrated laser pointing angle and ranging separation used as the input parameters. In this work, the GaoFen-7 (GF-7) satellite laser was used as the test object and the actual laser pointing and ranging values derived from ground detector calibrations. The results verified that the pointing accuracy of the GF-7 beam 1 was 2 arcsec and that the ranging accuracy was 2 cm after applying the calibration method presented in this paper. The pointing accuracy of the GF-7 beam 2 was 2.2 arcsec, and the ranging accuracy was approximately 1 cm. This analysis demonstrated that the GF-7 laser mission exceeded its pointing angle requirement of 3 arcsec after laser pointing and ranging separation iterative calibrations were applied. Finally, ground control points were used to verify the calibrated elevation accuracy of the GF-7 satellite laser, and its accuracy on flat terrain was 0.18 m. In summary, it was proven that the satellite laser geometry calibration method proposed in the article is effective. Full article
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On-Orbit Radiometric Calibration of Hyperspectral Sensors on Board Micro-Nano Satellite Constellation Based on RadCalNet Data
by Qiang Zhang, Yongguang Zhao, Lei Zhang, Jiaqi Wu, Wan Li, Jun Yan, Xiaohua Jiang, Zhiyu Yan and Jing Zhao
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(19), 4720; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14194720 - 21 Sep 2022
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The stability and accuracy of the on-orbit radiometric calibration of hyperspectral sensors are prerequisites for the quantitative application of satellite hyperspectral data. The Zhuhai-1 micro-nano satellite constellation is composed of eight hyperspectral satellite missions. The Orbita Hyperspectral Sensor (OHS) on board each satellite [...] Read more.
The stability and accuracy of the on-orbit radiometric calibration of hyperspectral sensors are prerequisites for the quantitative application of satellite hyperspectral data. The Zhuhai-1 micro-nano satellite constellation is composed of eight hyperspectral satellite missions. The Orbita Hyperspectral Sensor (OHS) on board each satellite has a gradient filter spectroscopic design. When observing the Earth, eight integration stages can be set for each band according to different lighting conditions. Due to high manufacturing costs, OHSs are not equipped with on-board calibration devices. Therefore, it is very difficult to accurately calibrate OHSs for all of the integration stages. On the other hand, it is extremely important to ensure radiometric consistency between different OHSs within the Zhuhai-1 micro-nano satellite constellation. To carry out the rapid radiometric calibration of the Zhuhai-1 constellation, an on-orbit radiometric calibration model considering all of the integration stages related to hyperspectral sensors was built based on the BOA reflectance and atmosphere parameters published by the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) radiometric calibration network (RadCalNet). The RadCalNet product was used to derive the TOA radiance base in the Second Simulation of the Satellite Signal in the Solar Spectrum (6S) radiative transfer (RT) model. In this paper, we analyzed the radiometric stability of the same sensor and the consistency of different calibration results regarding four RadCalNet sites, and the on-orbit radiometric performance evaluation of OHSs was also carried out. The data retrieved from OHSs regarding hyperspectral surface reflectance were preliminarily validated using site-synchronous surface reflectance measurements. Full article
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