Landsat-5遥感卫星波段组合与比值分析在汶川地震前后的应用

文章在遥感图像处理软件ENVI的支持下,以汶川地震的极重灾区汶川县为研究区,选取2007年、2008年和2010年这3个时期的Landsat-5 TM数据为数据源,提取分析了地震前后TM数据的相关信息。利用相关系数矩阵、特征向量和特征值,按照最佳波段组合原则,对地震前后的TM影像进行了多种波段组合试验和比值分析。经分析得出以TM3、TM4、TM5波段组合为基础,参考其他组合（如TM1、TM4、TM5,TM4、TM2、TM7和 NDVI、TM5/TM3、TM4/TM3的组合）容易解译和判读 TM遥感影像的相关地物数据类型,为地震解译和灾害评估提供了理论依据和支撑。     

Optical orbital debris spotter

The number of man-made debris objects orbiting the Earth, or orbital debris, is alarmingly increasing, resulting in the increased probability of degradation, damage, or destruction of operating spacecraft. In part, small objects (<10 cm) in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) are of concern because they are abundant and difficult to track or even to detect on a routine basis. Due to the increasing debris population it is reasonable to assume that improved capabilities for on-orbit damage attribution, in addition to increased capabilities to detect and track small objects are needed. Here we present a sensor concept to detect small debris with sizes between approximately 1.0 and 0.01 cm in the vicinity of a host spacecraft for near real time damage attribution and characterization of dense debris fields and potentially to provide additional data to existing debris models.     

天基红外系统及空间光电对抗装备进展

随着信息技术的进展,战争已从陆、海、空扩展到外层空间,信息和反导已成为世界军事领域的两大课题。介绍了美国天基红外系统(SBIRS)的作用、组成、最新进展及技术特点,分析了空间光电对抗技术的原理及空间光电对抗装备发展现状。对预警卫星系统和空间光电对抗设备建设具有借鉴作用。     

Earth observation from space – The issue of environmental sustainability

Remote sensing scientists work under assumptions that should not be taken for granted and should, therefore, be challenged. These assumptions include the following:1. Space, especially Low Earth Orbit (LEO), will always be available to governmental and commercial space entities that launch Earth remote sensing missions.2. Space launches are benign with respect to environmental impacts.3. Minimization of Type 1 error, which provides increased confidence in the experimental outcome, is the best way to assess the significance of environmental change.4. Large-area remote sensing investigations, i.e. national, continental, global studies, are best done from space.5. National space missions should trump international, cooperative space missions to ensure national control and distribution of the data products.At best, all of these points are arguable, and in some cases, they're wrong. Development of observational space systems that are compatible with sustainability principles should be a primary concern when Earth remote sensing space systems are envisioned, designed, and launched. The discussion is based on the hypothesis that reducing the environmental impacts of the data acquisition step, which is at the very beginning of the information stream leading to decision and action, will enhance coherence in the information stream and strengthen the capacity of measurement processes to meet their stated functional goal, i.e. sustainable management of Earth resources. We suggest that unconventional points of view should be adopted and when appropriate, remedial measures considered that could help to reduce the environmental footprint of space remote sensing and of Earth observation and monitoring systems in general. This article discusses these five assumptions in the context of sustainable management of Earth's resources. Taking each assumption in turn, we find the following:(1) Space debris may limit access to Low Earth Orbit over the next decades.(2) Relatively speaking, given that they're rare event, space launches may be benign, but study is merited on upper stratospheric and exospheric layers given the chemical activity associated with rocket combustion by-products.(3) Minimization of Type II error should be considered in situations where minimization of Type I error greatly hampers or precludes our ability to correct the environmental condition being studied.(4) In certain situations, airborne collects may be less expensive and more environmentally benign, and comparative studies should be done to determine which path is wisest.(5) International cooperation and data sharing will reduce instrument and launch costs and mission redundancy. Given fiscal concerns of most of the major space agencies – e.g. NASA, ESA, CNES – it seems prudent to combine resources.     

Detectability of planetary characteristics in disk-averaged spectra II: synthetic spectra and light-curves of earth

Spatially and spectrally resolved models were used to explore the observational sensitivity to changes in atmospheric and surface properties and the detectability of surface biosignatures in the globally averaged spectra and light-curves of the Earth. Compared with previous efforts to characterize the Earth using disk-averaged models, a more comprehensive and realistic treatment of the surface and atmosphere was taken into account here. Our results are presented as a function of viewing geometry and phases at both visible/near-infrared (0.5-1.7 microm) and mid-infrared (5-25 microm) wavelength ranges, applicable to the proposed NASA-Terrestrial Planet Finder visible coronagraph and mid-infrared interferometer and to the ESADarwin mission architectures. Clouds can change the thermal emission by as much as 50% compared with the cloud-free case and increase the visible albedo by up to 500% for completely overcast cases at the dichotomy phase. Depending on the observed phase and their distribution and type, clouds can also significantly alter the spectral shape. Moreover, clouds impact the detectability of surface biosignatures in the visible wavelength range. Modeling the disk-averaged sensitivity to the "red-edge," a distinctive spectral signature of vegetation, showed that Earth's land vegetation could be seen in disk-averaged spectra, even with cloud cover, when the signal was averaged over the daily time scale. We found that vegetation is more readily discriminated from clouds at dichotomy (50% illumination) rather than at full phase. The detectability of phytoplankton was also explored, but was found to be more difficult to detect in the disk-average than land vegetation.     

地月平动点拟周期轨道探测器自主导航方法研究

地月L2点的拟周期轨道可以用于实现与月球背面的持续通信,具有重要的科学研究价值和广阔的应用前景。针对地月L2点探测器所处的弱稳定拟周期轨道,论证了基于日地月信息的自主导航方法的可行性,并进行了深入分析。首先,推导了会合坐标系下带有星历的精确导航动力学方程;其次,针对弱稳定轨道不同于近地强稳定轨道的特性,在基于日地月方位信息导航的基础上,提出了三种敏感器组合方案。使用迭代最小二乘方法给出导航仿真结果,并结合非线性可辨识性理论对这三种情况下历元状态的可辨识性及可辨识度进行分析。最后,仿真结果表明,使用日地月敏感器以及对地多普勒雷达可以满足历元状态的可辨识性、导航的收敛性以及系统经济性的要求。     

Remote sensing in the information age

A large percentage of the public today perceives the majority of applications of Earth observation data from satellite and aircraft altitudes to be focused on the understanding and management of the renewable and non-renewable resources of the Earth and its environment. Originally conceived as a tool for gathering intelligence information, remote sensing has just fully emerged from its military womb to the public domain. Advances in the technology, a variety of indirect benefits that could be derived from space exploration, commercialization of remote sensing and the drive of the value-added companies - all of these hold promise for new opportunities for many other novel applications of Earth observation data and related information. In the advent of the more advanced, user-friendly, cost effective, and problem solving operations being championed by the private sector, particularly in the industrialized countries, it appears that the commercial future for remote sensing programmes and related information generated in the process is promising. This paper examines how the information age is influencing the metamorphosis of remote sensing technology particularly through international legal instruments and converging technologies. In spite of the progress attained to-date, of international concern is possible radio frequency interference between remote sensing satellite and communication satellite services. There is also a major knowledge gap between the providers of raw remote sensing data and the user community, particularly those interested in the new high-level information. A resolution of these issues will enhance the contributions of remote sensing to the information economy.     

LANDSAT-7卫星的有效载荷ETM

LANDSAT-7卫星的主要有效载荷——改进型主题测绘仪(Enhanced Thematic Map-per Plus)ETM 是在landsat-4和Landsat-5卫星的主要有效载荷主题测绘仪(Thematic Map-per)的基础上改进的。ETM 相对TM的主要不同之处在于它增加了1个金色谱段和2个增益区域,增加了太阳定标器,并提高了红外谱段的分辨率,文章简要介绍ETM 的性能和主要组件。     

Dream project: Applications of earth observations to disaster risk management

The field of disaster risk management is relatively new and takes a structured approach to managing uncertainty related to the threat of natural and man-made disasters. Disaster risk management consists primarily of risk assessment and the development of strategies to mitigate disaster risk. This paper will discuss how increasing both Earth observation data and information technology capabilities can contribute to disaster risk management, particularly in Belize. The paper presents the results and recommendations of a project conducted by an international and interdisciplinary team of experts at the 2009 session of the International Space University in NASA Ames Research Center (California, USA). The aim is to explore the combination of current, planned and potential space-aided, airborne, and ground-based Earth observation tools, the emergence of powerful new web-based and mobile data management tools, and how this combination can support and improve the emerging field of disaster risk management. The starting point of the project was the World Bank’s Comprehensive Approach to Probabilistic Risk Assessment (CAPRA) program, focused in Central America. This program was used as a test bed to analyze current space technologies used in risk management and develop new strategies and tools to be applied in other regions around the world.     

The earth observation market: industrial dynamics and their impact on data policy

This paper examines the relationship between public sector objectives in the Earth observation data market and the economic interests of Earth observation data procedures. The Earth observation data market is treated as a particular example of an information market and the economic incentives created by the cultural characteristics of the market, particularly in Europe, are considered to assess the implications for data pricing policies. The analysis focuses upon implications of the vertical and horizontal linkages in the Earth observation industrial participation chain which includes space segment suppliers, space agencies and operators, data intermediaries and end users. A rebalancing of administrative and market decisions is proposed that would result in a shift in the allocation of public resources from space agencies and data intermediaries to data users whose activities are deemed to be in the widest public interest.     

Continuity of moderate resolution Earth observation data: is an international solution the answer?

The operation of the US Landsat-7, launched in 1999, has proved a marked success. Together with the earlier Landsat data stored at the US Geological Survey Earth Data Analysis Center and other centers around the world, Landsat 7 data constitute a powerful tool for analyzing changes in the Earth's surface. However, the continuity of the Landsat system is not assured. An international system in which other countries participate could provide a more robust system, while spreading the costs and benefits of supplying such data more broadly. This paper explores the potential for creating an international arrangement to supply data of moderate resolution and extensive coverage in order to contribute to planetary stewardship, and discusses several different implementation approaches.     

星地遥感数据压缩的差分编码方法研究

为了提高星地传输的工作效率,文章以信息论为理论基础,提出一种差分编码方法用于星地遥感数据的传输。同时,鉴于地表覆盖本身的不确定度与应用需求的不同,提出了分区预测差分编码与保持立体测量精度的差分编码。这两种压缩策略可进一步显著提高差分编码的压缩比。     

Pricing policy and legal issues: 6th and 7th EOPOLE workshops

The following report presents the main conclusions of the sixth and seventh EOPOLE workshops, held in Hydra, Greece, 3–4 May and Leiden, the Netherlands, 3–5 July 2000, respectively. The objectives of the first workshop were to evaluate different approaches to pricing policy and to assess how new developments in Earth observation and information technology are having an impact on Earth observation data pricing policy. Those of the second were to assess the constraints that legal frameworks impose on Earth observation and to explore ways in which they can be used to its advantage.     

An erasure coding-based loss-tolerant file delivery protocol for deep spacecommunications

In deep space communications, huge delay, asymmetric bandwidth, large BER and packet loss ratio and intermittent link hinder the adoption of terrestrial transmission protocols. To decrease file delivery time, consultative committee for space data systems (CCSDS) file delivery protocol (CFDP) replaces acknowledge (ACK) by negative acknowledge (NAK) and simplifies the procedures of link establishment and link removal. However, feedback information cannot be avoided in CFDP; hence the file delivery performance cannot be further improved. Motivated by the idea of erasure coding, a one-way reliable transmission protocol named loss-tolerant file deliver protocol (LTFDP) that is suitable for deep space long-range file deliveryis proposed in this paper. For LTFDP, if a certain percent of the data segments interweaved by explorers is received, the original data can be de-interweaved successfully by Earth stations; hence reliable transmission is accomplished without NAK or ACK. Obviously, the Earth stations have enough power and memory resources for the iteration process of de-interweaving. In a shorter distance communications scenario such as from the Moon to the Earth, performance of LTFDP is greatly impacted by file size and transmission rate. In contrast, propagation delay is the main factor of file delivery time in a longer distance communication scenario, e.g. from the Mars to the Earth. This paper demonstrated that LTFDP can not only diminish file delivery time greatly and improve goodput by feedback-reduced transmission, but also improve the reliability of deep space communications.     

一种利用地球敏感器的星光导航方法

针对直接敏感地平的红外地平仪-星光导航系统精度低的问题,提出通过建立扁率误差补偿函数,研究扁率引起的姿态角测量误差;建立地心矢量的姿态角误差模型,通过修正地球扁率误差来补偿姿态角,对卫星施加姿态偏转指令调整地心矢量偏移。同时基于SODERN地球红外辐射模型,考虑红外辐射强度随纬度和季节的变化建立真实红外辐射曲线,通过滤波算法获得精确的地球切线边缘的量测信息,提高红外地平仪测量精度。仿真结果表明,该方法有效提高了基于红外地平仪的星光导航定位方法的可靠性和精度,导航位置误差能达到500m左右,较原有系统提高3倍以上。     

Signs of hypothetical flora on the planet venus: Revision of the TV experiment data (1975–1982)

Unique archive data from investigations of the surface of Venus performed with television cameras on the VENERA missions in 1975 and 1982 were reprocessed with up-to-date techniques, which substantially improved their level of detail. Numerous objects exhibiting a complex regular structure and presumably very slow motions (in the case of hypothetical fauna) have been found. The objects are noticeable in size and may testify to the existence of life. This paper reviews the results of searching for and identifying hypothetical objects of Venusian flora. The detected and identified hypothetical objects considerably exhaust the corresponding potential of the television images. It is concluded that, to investigate the surface of Venus, a new special mission, much more sophisticated than the VENERA missions (1975–1982), should be urgently carried out.     

Future robotic exploration using honeybee search strategy: Example search for caves on Mars

Autonomous control has an increasing role in Earth and Space based applications. High level autonomy can greatly improve planetary exploration and is, in many cases, essential. It has been suggested during the Mars cave exploration programme, that an effective way to explore a larger surface area would be the use of many, small and fully autonomous robots. However, there are many challenges to overcome if such a swarm exploration programme is to be implemented. This paper summarises these challenges and focuses on one of the most crucial one: strategy. Many effective group exploration behaviours can be observed in nature, most of which are optimised to work with agents that have limited capabilities as individuals. For this paper a computer program has been written to simulate the way bees search for new hives and investigate whenever it is an optimal method to search for cave entrances on Mars. It has been found that this method, using simple autonomous robots which can be constructed using available technologies, could greatly improve the speed and range of a planetary exploration mission. The simulation results show that 50 swarm robots can cover an area of over 300 meters square completely in 5 sols while they are searching for cave entrances and returning results to the Lander which is a major performance improvement on any previous mission. Furthermore areas of interests found by the explorers are sorted in order of importance automatically and without the need of computational analysis, hence larger quantities of data were collected from the more important areas. Therefore the system – just like a hive of bees – can make a complex decision easily and quickly to find the place which matches the required criteria best. Using a high performance search strategy such as the one described in this paper is crucial if we plan to search for important resources or even life on Mars and other bodies in the solar system.     

基于光谱特性的高光谱图像压缩方案

根据干涉型高光谱成像仪成像特点,提出了一种针对干涉型光谱仪所获得高光谱图像的基于光谱特性的图像压缩方案。由于光谱信息最终从“点”十涉图像中恢复,因此方案中首先通过高精度匹配技术将原始“像面”干涉图像序列“重组”成“点”干涉图像,然后针对“点”干涉图像序列进行压缩。在重组过程中采取基于光流的亚像素级匹配和基于梯度的三角插值算法,实现了高精度的图像匹配重组;在压缩环节利用“点”干涉图像与光谱信息之间的傅立叶变换关系,提出一种能够很好保持频谱特性的基于一维DCT的压缩算法。实验证明,压缩算法总体性能远高于针对“像而”干涉圈序列的压缩算法．很好地控制了光谱信息的失真。     

Environmental pattern change as revealed by Landsat MSS data

The environmental pattern change of land and sea surface are studied based on the MSS data of Landsat-1 and 2. The analysis of land use in Nagoya and Toyohashi areas located in central Japan indicates a large change of land use took place during 3 yr between 1972 and 1975. Land use change is especially large in the periphery and suburbs of large city Nagoya, the fourth largest city of Japan with 2 million population.Out of total studied area of 350 km² in Nagoya District, 5.79 and 3.20% were transformed into new urban and open areas respectively from forest, agricultural and suburban areas.Over the sea surface, “red tide” named after its color which causes damage to fishing industry is increasing in a bay and Seto Inland Sea. During the analysis a small vortex of approximately 40 km in diameter was found off the tip of Kii Peninsula in the periphery of Kuroshio, a large warm ocean current.It is the first time that the existence of this kind of small vortex is visually recognized near Japan along the Kuroshio. It is found that this vortex is manifested by the red tide driven into the vortex.