Transforming Image-Objects into Multiscale Fields: A GEOBIA Approach to Mitigate Urban Microclimatic Variability within H-Res Thermal Infrared Airborne Flight-Lines

نویسندگان

  • Mir Mustafizur Rahman
  • Geoffrey J. Hay
  • Isabelle Couloigner
  • Bharanidharan Hemachandran
چکیده

In an effort to minimize complex urban microclimatic variability within high-resolution (H-Res) airborne thermal infrared (TIR) flight-lines, we describe the Thermal Urban Road Normalization (TURN) algorithm, which is based on the idea of pseudo invariant features. By assuming a homogeneous road temperature within a TIR scene, we hypothesize that any variation observed in road temperature is the effect of local microclimatic variability. To model microclimatic variability, we define a road-object class (Road), compute the within-Road temperature variability, sample it at different spatial intervals (i.e., 10, 20, 50, and 100 m) then interpolate samples over each flight-line to create an object-weighted variable temperature field (a TURN-surface). The optimal TURNsurface is then subtracted from the original TIR image, essentially creating a microclimatefree scene. Results at different sampling intervals are assessed based on their: (i) ability to visually and statistically reduce overall scene variability and (ii) computation speed. TURN is evaluated on three non-adjacent TABI-1800 flight-lines (~182 km2) that were acquired in 2012 at night over The City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. TURN also meets a recent GEOBIA (Geospatial Object Based Image Analysis) challenge by incorporating existing OPEN ACCESS Remote Sens. 2014, 6 9436 GIS vector objects within the GEOBIA workflow, rather than relying exclusively on segmentation methods.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Remote Sensing

دوره 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014