Title
An Impervious Surface Spectral Index on Multispectral Imagery Using Visible and Near-Infrared Bands
Abstract
The accurate mapping of urban impervious surfaces from remote sensing images is crucial for understanding urban land-cover change and addressing impervious-surface-change-related environment issues. To date, the authors of most studies have built indices to map impervious surfaces based on shortwave infrared (SWIR) or thermal infrared (TIR) bands from middle-low-spatial-resolution remote sensing images. However, this limits the use of high-spatial-resolution remote sensing data (e.g., GaoFen-2, Quickbird, and IKONOS). In addition, the separation of bare soil and impervious surfaces has not been effectively solved. In this article, on the basis of the spectra analysis of impervious surface and non-impervious surface (vegetation, water, soil and non-photosynthetic vegetation (NPV)) data acquired from world-recognized spectral libraries and Sentinel-2 MSI images in different regions and seasons, a novel spectral index named the Normalized Impervious Surface Index (NISI) was proposed for extracting impervious area information by using blue, green, red and near-infrared (NIR) bands. We performed comprehensive assessments for the NISI, and the results demonstrated that the NISI provided the best studied performance in separating the soil and impervious surfaces from Sentinel-2 MSI images. Furthermore, regarding impervious surfaces mapping accuracy, the NISI had an overall accuracy (OA) of 89.28% (+/- 0.258), a producer's accuracy (PA) of 89.76% (+/- 1.754), and a user's accuracy (UA) of 90.68% (+/- 1.309), which were higher than those of machine learning algorithms, thus supporting the NISI as an effective measurement for urban impervious surfaces mapping and analysis. The results indicate the NISI has a high robustness and a good applicability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/rs14143391
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
impervious surface, urban, visible and near-infrared, multispectral remote sensing, NISI
Journal
14
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
14
2072-4292
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shanshan Su100.34
Jia Tian200.34
Xinyu Dong300.68
TIAN Qing-jiu43312.79
Ning Wang523087.46
Yanbiao Xi600.34