Title
Spaceborne Earth-Observing Optical Sensor Static Capability Index for Clustering
Abstract
Different Earth-observing (EO) sensors have various capabilities for diverse observing tasks. Sensor planning services make the choice of web-ready sensors for specific observing tasks with regard to observing requests and sensor capabilities. Sensor capabilities rely on various parameters; thus, choosing EO sensors for specific observing tasks relying directly on these parameters is a multicriteria decision process. A sensor's capability can be drawn from these parameters with the help of an algorithm. Furthermore, if divided into different clusters based on capabilities, applicable sensors can be more easily chosen for a category of observing tasks. In this paper, a spaceborne EO optical sensor static capability index (SSCI) mechanism is drawn from an evaluation-and-clustering algorithm, which is composed of a self-organizing neural map in combination with weighted principal component analysis. The scheme of SSCI relies on no expert analysis system and thus is more flexible and efficient. EO scenarios of disaster reactions are among the application of this algorithm. In particular, scenarios of flooding disaster forecasting, relief aiding, and postdisaster loss assessment within the framework of International Charter on Space and Major Disasters have been utilized for experiments. They have shown that the SSCI assessing algorithm is feasible and stable, and the EO optical sensor clustering algorithm based on SSCI can offer reasonable clustering accuracies of EO optical sensors. In our experiments, the EO optical sensor SSCI computation and clustering algorithm had a time consumption within 2 s and 2 min, respectively, and memory consumption within 200 MB on a normal personal computer.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TGRS.2015.2424298
IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Keywords
Field
DocType
capability clustering,observing capability,optical sensors,principal component analysis (pca),self-organizing feature maps
Data mining,Remote sensing,Personal computer,Decision process,Cluster analysis,Process capability index,Mathematics,Principal component analysis,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
53
10
0196-2892
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nengcheng Chen127041.34
Chenjie Xing241.12
Xiang Zhang319534.67
Liangpei Zhang45448307.02
Jianya Gong554157.06