Title
Shape-based unmixing for vegetation mapping
Abstract
Spectral mixture analyses (SMA) is often used as a tool to map complex/mixed (semi-)natural ecosystems. Yet, the performance of SMA, which traditionally uses the amplitude-based RMSE as the objective function, is often hampered by the high spectral similarity among co-occurring plant species. Experiments, based on ray-tracing simulations, in situ measured reflectance data and AVIRIS imagery demonstrated the added value of implementing shape-based error metrics in the unmixing of forests and orchards. The approach allowed to highlight the subtle spectral differences among co-occurring plant species resulting in an overall improvement of species specific mapping (i. e. decrease in MSE ≈ 40%).
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/WHISPERS.2012.6874222
WHISPERS
Keywords
Field
DocType
remote sensing,vegetation,vegetation mapping,aviris imagery,amplitude-based rmse,co-occurring plant species,complex seminatural ecosystem,forest unmixing,mixed seminatural ecosystem,objective function,orchard unmixing,ray-tracing simulations,reflectance data,shape-based error metrics,shape-based unmixing,spectral mixture analysis,hyperspectral,forests,orchards,spectral similarity,hyperspectral imaging,linear programming,shape,accuracy
Vegetation,Remote sensing,Environmental science
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2158-6268
978-1-4799-3405-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Laurent Tits15710.49
Ben Somers226930.34
wanda de keersmaecker311.42
gregory p asner41238.69
Jamshid Farifteh521.12
Pol Coppin614720.87