Quick multitemporal approach to get cloudless improved multispectral imagery for large geographical areas

Nicola Colaninno; Alejandro Marambio Castillo; Josep Roca Cladera

doi:10.1117/12.2278043

5 October 2017 Quick multitemporal approach to get cloudless improved multispectral imagery for large geographical areas

Nicola Colaninno, Alejandro Marambio Castillo, Josep Roca Cladera

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Proceedings Volume 10428, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications VIII; 104280X (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2278043
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2017, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

The demand for remotely sensed data is growing increasingly, due to the possibility of managing information about huge geographic areas, in digital format, at different time periods, and suitable for analysis in GIS platforms. However, primary satellite information is not such immediate as desirable. Beside geometric and atmospheric limitations, clouds, cloud shadows, and haze generally contaminate optical images. In terms of land cover, such a contamination is intended as missing information and should be replaced. Generally, image reconstruction is classified according to three main approaches, i.e. in-painting-based, multispectral-based, and multitemporal-based methods. This work relies on a multitemporal-based approach to retrieve uncontaminated pixels for an image scene. We explore an automatic method for quickly getting daytime cloudless and shadow-free image at moderate spatial resolution for large geographical areas. The process expects two main steps: a multitemporal effect adjustment to avoid significant seasonal variations, and a data reconstruction phase, based on automatic selection of uncontaminated pixels from an image stack. The result is a composite image based on middle values of the stack, over a year. The assumption is that, for specific purposes, land cover changes at a coarse scale are not significant over relatively short time periods. Because it is largely recognized that satellite imagery along tropical areas are generally strongly affected by clouds, the methodology is tested for the case study of the Dominican Republic at the year 2015; while Landsat 8 imagery are employed to test the approach.

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Nicola Colaninno, Alejandro Marambio Castillo, and Josep Roca Cladera "Quick multitemporal approach to get cloudless improved multispectral imagery for large geographical areas", Proc. SPIE 10428, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications VIII, 104280X (5 October 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2278043

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Clouds

Satellites

Multispectral imaging

Atmospheric optics

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