Since hyperspectral imagery is generated by collecting hundreds of contiguous bands, uncompressed hyperspectral imagery can be very large, with a single image potentially occupying hundreds of megabytes. For instance, the Airborne Visible InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) sensor is capable of collecting several gigabytes of data per day. Compression is thus necessary to facilitate both the...

Habitat monitoring of designated areas under the EU Habitats Directive requires every 6 years information on area, range, structure and function for the protected (Annex I) habitat types. First results from studies on heathland areas in Belgium and the Netherlands show that hyperspectral imagery can be an important source of information to assist the evaluation of the habitat conservation statu...

Remote sensing has become an important source of urban land-use/cover classification, and as a result of their high spatial and spectral resolution, airborne hyperspectral images have been widely used to distinguish different urban classes. However, the previous studies into the classification of urban environments have mainly focused on a supervised scenario, which is limited by the selection ...

* Corresponding author. Tel.: þ1 956 969 483 E-mail address: [email protected] 1537-5110/$ e see front matter Published by doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2010.07.011 Cotton root rot, caused by the soilborne fungus Phymatotrichum omnivorum, is a major cotton disease in the south western and south central United States. Accurate delineation of root rot infestations is necessary for site-specifi...

The emergence of IR hyperspectral sensors in recent years enables their use in remote environmental monitoring of gaseous plumes. IR hyperspectral imaging combines the unique advantages of traditional remote sensing methods such as multispectral imagery and nonimaging Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, while eliminating their drawbacks. The most significant improvement introduced by hyper...

Hyperspectral imagery classification is a challenging problem. Wherein, the high number of spectral channels and the high cost of true sample labeling greatly reduce the classification precision. In this paper, we proposed a semi-supervised method, which combine linear discriminant analysis and manifold learning, to improve the precision of hyperspectral imagery classification. Experimental res...

Exploitation of imaging spectroscopy (hyperspectral) data using classification and spectral unmixing algorithms is a major research area in remote sensing, with reference data required to assess algorithm performance. However, we are limited by our inability to generate rapid, accurate, and consistent reference data, thus making quantitative algorithm analysis difficult. As a result, many inves...

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Hyperspectral Imagery Compression: State of the Art. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Outline of This Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Hyperspectral sensors are devices that acquire images with narrow bands (less than 20nm) with continuous measurement. It extracts spectral signatures of objects or materials to be observed. Hyperspectral have more than 200 bands. Hyperspectral remote sensing has been used over a wide range of applications, such as agriculture, forestry, geology, ecological monitoring, atmospheric compositions a...