Techniques for the selection of spectral intervals for multispectral survey of the earth's resources from space

A solution has been proposed for the problem of optimal selection of spectral intervals for multispectral survey of the Earth's resources from space. The problem of planning multipurpose experiments on remote sensing of environment and natural resources has been considered.     

Training opportunities in remote sensing in India

The paper deals with the Indian experience in training the resources scientists in the fast developing field of remote sensing and the facilities available for obtaining such training in India. The necessity of imparting training to the scientists at different levels is brought out. An outline of the training curriculum of a leading institution is described in some detail.     

星载高速串行数据处理系统设计与实现

遥感卫星图像数据量的高速增长,以及遥感卫星搭载的相机不同工作模式下产生的数据差异化处理的需求,为星间数据处理带来了巨大挑战。针对星载Gbit·s^–1级高速数据收发及文件缓存等星间数据处理面临的问题,以百兆每秒级星载高速接收缓存系统为切入点,以遥感卫星数据处理的发展为依据,在分析SerDes传输原理的基础上,采用模型仿真和工程验证的方法,制定了高速串行数据链路层传输协议SSLLP(Satellite Serial Link Layer Protocol)和类文件化高速缓存的策略。在硬件设计和软件开发的基础上,最终完成了具备处理入口速率3.2 Gbit·s^–1并能以类文件化的方式缓存64个数据文件的星载数据处理单元的工程实现。测试结果表明,基于SSLLP的高速串行数据接收正确,缓存策略有效,系统高效可靠。该设计已在某型号任务中取得在轨验证,为星载高速串行数据处理系统提供了参考。     

Low cost training in remote sensing applications for developing countries

This presentation introduces the Polish Remote Sensing Centre /OPOLiS/, which offers various types of training possibilities in remote sensing techniques and applications. It deals with a wide range of applications and experiences reached by OPOLiS for various branches of national economy, as well as introduction to analog and digital satellite data processing possibilities with the existing equipment.The offered training possibilities include analog and digital data handling and its interpretation such as visual and computer assisted integration of multiple data sets, as well as image processing, enhancements, mosaics etc.It also includes training and applications of interpretations results for exploration of minerals, energy, and ground water resources, as well as inventories, monitoring and forecasting for agriculture, forest, and natural environmental purposes.The cost factor of the offered training possibilities includes a reasonable input from the Polish Government, which results in low cost input by the participants from developing countries. It also accepts the participation fee in non - convertible currency.     

高光谱遥感成像技术的发展与展望

地表形态和目标特性是空间对地遥感的两个重要问题.经过近40年的发展,高光谱遥感技术已取得了巨大的进展,从数据获取、处理到应用都积累了大量成果.作为涉及多学科交叉的年轻学科,高光谱遥感技术的发展经历了一个以需求为导向,在发展中又不断探索完善需求的历程.高光谱成像仪作为获取目标图谱数据的重要仪器,其发展对于整个高光谱遥感的...     

一种低轨遥感卫星按需数据传输机制

针对现有低轨（LEO）遥感卫星数据下行机制普遍存在的低效率、高时延、传输路径易损等问题,提出了一种新型的遥感数据传输机制。所提机制中,支持地面站按需实时定位遥感影像资源,并建立定位卫星到达地面站的传输路径;在建立传输路径时,考虑到协作卫星与地面的可视时间有限,提出了以路径持续服务时间最大化为度量的路由算法,降低因协作卫星改变而引入的传输时延。基于NS3仿真平台实现了所设计的数据传输机制,实验表明,提出机制相比现有数据传输机制可降低数据传输时延,减少数据丢失。      

Selected examples of profitable applications of remote sensing for resources inventories and monitoring

The Remote Sensing Centre of the Institute of Geodesy and Cartography in Warsaw has been operating since 1976. It has multi-disciplinary character; carries out scientific research, elaborates technologies of remote sensing investigations, applies remote sensing methods for solving various practical problems, coordinates national activities in this field, developes and disseminates remote sensing knowledge at both national and international levels offering various types of specialized training.The authors discuss the role of remote sensing investigations in the process of development planning. Examples of projects executed at the Remote Sensing Centre and concerning topographic and land use mapping, geological investigations, agricultural crop area determination, forest research, environmental monitoring and studies of climatic conditions in urban environment are described and extensively discussed in the paper. The authors emphasize these areas of the application of remote sensing and these interpretation techniques which are of potential interest for the developing countries.     

遥感卫星高速数传信息流设计

随着卫星遥感技术水平的提高,遥感数据的类型和数据量快速增加。为适应多类型、高速率遥感数据传输的复杂需求,对数传信息流进行了顶层设计,定义了数传与遥感系统数据接口以及数传帧格式,对遥感数据传输所需码速率进行了分类计算,为设计固定的下行数传码速率提供了依据。进而针对不同类型的遥感数据提出了基于分组优先级虚拟信道动态调度策略的数传信息流设计方案,确保不同类型遥感数据的传输满足不同的应用需求。对高速遥感数据确保满足较低的缓存容量需求,对低速遥感数据确保满足实时性传输需求。采用动态仿真技术对数传信息流设计方案进行了试验验证。设计方案可为后续新一代遥感卫星数传系统设计提供参考。     

Assessment of plant vitality detection through fluorescence and reflectance imagery

Recent studies of the vegetation fluorescence show that it can be successfully used as an intrinsic indicator of plant photosynthetic activity. With respect to the vegetation spectral reflectance, the chlorophyll (Chl) fluorescence is more specific as an observable of basic biophysical processes in the plant cells. Laser induced fluorescence is widely used in near range remote sensing, but it is not suitable for the global monitoring of vegetation. Decades of active fluorometry studies have collected useful information of leaf reaction to natural and anthropogenic stress. Still the passive fluorescence, the one that could be registered from satellite orbit has still to prove its advantage over widely used reflectance signature. The weakness of the signal and the lack of experience with passive fluorescence measurements require extensive technical, theoretical and experimental studies. New imaging fluorometres are to be designed for measuring steady state fluorescence in controlled and natural conditions.

In order to compare reflectance and steady state fluorescence sensitivity to stress impact, a set of experiments have been conducted under controlled illumination conditions in a bio-chamber, designed by the author’s team. The equipment allows plant vitality to be monitored both by passive fluorescence and spectral reflectance imaging. Different types of stress factors (heat and drought stress, acid impact) were investigated to demonstrate equipments ability in monitoring changes of fluorescence signal. Selected fluorescence images of foliage illustrate an early detection of plant dysfunction and the temporal and spatial spreading of the stress impact. Analysis shows that fluorescence imaging of green plants can be developed as a highly effective early warning remote sensing method, which could have application for an ecosystems’ monitoring along with high-spectral reflectance imagery.     

Establishing satellite data bases in developing countries: A critical view

Remote sensing is a data gathering and analysis technique that offers the possibility of natural resource evaluation. Countries that have not yet evaluated their main resources owing to the lack of basic knoweldge of their territory, are attracted by the idea of rapidly creating data banks through the use of remote sensing. While such a technique offers advantages over traditional means of data acquisition, it requires special systems and methods of analysis that are not particularly easy to assimilate. The building of data bases is taken here as the framework for analyzing some problems confronted by developing countries when trying to incorporate the techniques of teledetection.     

The private sector: A global pool of technical talent for remote sensing training and program support

The growing global pool of highly trained, technical talent in the private sector throughout the world reflects the degree of maturation that remote sensing from air and space vehicles has undergone, especially during the past ten years. This has been further spawned by the US Government move to commercialize the Landsat system. The number of qualified technicians and scientists has grown in proportion to the amount of data that has become available for public and private use. Applications of the data have matured from research investigations to operational use in many disciplines and geographic areas. Private and public industry corporations have established their own image processing and analytical laboratories to ensure their competitive positions. This has been further enhanced by the simultaneous availability of lower cost, analytical computer systems. Training and operational project development remain prominent objectives.While these are all very positive aspects a note of caution must be raised. Concern has recently been expressed by representatives of developing nations that not enough attention is given by remote sensing specialists to spelling out the limitations of the sensing systems or qualifying the degree of accuracy of the results obtained. Such criticisms are probably justified and it is recommended that remote sensing workers be mindful of such concerns.     

模态综合在遥感卫星颤动响应分析中的应用

高分辨率遥感卫星对地观测时,星上部件的运动使星体产生颤动响应,该响应会对成像质量产生一定影响。介绍了基于混合界面综合方法的遥感卫星动力学模型及其简化计算方案;给出了运动部件拢动影响下遥感卫星的颤动响应分析仿真结果。这些结果可供卫星总体部门参考。     

基于卫星遥感的岛礁影像多类目标智能化提取

卫星遥感影像具有背景复杂、目标尺度不一、观测方向各异、纹理不清晰等特点,主流的深度学习目标检测算法不能直接适用于卫星遥感影像的目标检测。改进了RetinaNet,使其适用于卫星遥感影像。首先设计了一种新的特征融合方式,融合ResNet50输出的特征图,使得融合后的特征图同时具有高层语义信息和低层纹理细节信息。为了减弱遥感影像复杂背景对目标特征的影响,设计了特征感知模块,在减弱噪声对特征图影响的同时增强有用特征。挑选DOTA数据集中船只、飞机和存储罐图像进行训练和测试。改进的算法与RetinaNet相比,飞机、船只和存储罐的平均精度分别提高了41%、25%、24%。基于高分二号卫星（GF 2）真实影像数据的试验结果表明,提出的算法能够用于卫星遥感岛礁影像的多类目标智能化提取。     

First results of the IUGS-UNESCO programme on geological applications of remote sensing (GARS) in Eastern Africa

The first phase of the GARS programme on the Kibaran belt of Eastern Africa is a follow-up of the CODATA project on multisatellite thematic mapping in Tanzania. An interpretation of a Thematic Mapper image has been carried out in terms of vegetation, soils, structure and lithology, for identification of targets that will be controlled on ground. The second phase (1987–1988) will focus on lithologic discrimination on the Kibaran formations in Central Burundi.     

基于流的遥感图像超分辨率重建

为了提高遥感图像超分辨率重建的质量，提出了一种基于流的遥感图像重建算法。首先，在Glow模型的基础上引入改进后的RRDB架构用于低分辨率图像特征提取，通过构建更多层和连接以提升训练的稳定性。然后，以一种纯数据驱动的流模型来训练分布的参数，通过最大化负的对数似然的方法进行优化，得到该算法的损失函数。实验证明该模型在网络训练过程中能够快速达到稳定收敛的状态，且具有很强的泛化能力。用重建出的图像质量对比SRCNN、SRGAN、ESRGAN，经过测试后发现，提出的算法远远优于SRCNN算法，与其他算法相比也有明显优势。重建出的图像不仅在指标上有所提升，例如与SRCNN相比，PSRN和SSIM分别提升了15%和40%，且人眼观察时有更高的清晰度，高频细节更为丰富。     

Remote sensing techniques for monitoring and managing irrigated lands

Agriculture in semi-arid tracts of the world depends on water to sustain its irrigation systems. Such agricultural systems either derive from government investments in the control of surface flow or they have been developed through the exploitation of groundwater sometimes by a large community of unsupervised individuals seeking to maximise their own advantage without concern for the resource upon which they depend in the medium and long term. In both cases government agencies need data on the area irrigated and the volume of water used. In countries with highly developed scientific and agricultural institutions the contribution of remote sensing, though significant, may only provide between five and ten per cent of the data required to guide regional and national managers. In countries without such institutions the proportion contributed by remote sensing can be very much higher, as shown in a recent study in North Africa. The paper will emphasise the importance of carefully structured sampling procedures, both to improve the areal estimates from satellite imagery and the estimates of water use based upon them. The role of satellite imagery in providing information on the status of water resources, on trends in water use and in the implementation of policies to extend or diminish irrigated land are discussed.     

The use of remote sensing in global biosystem studies

Remote sensing techniques, if properly employed, offer definite advantages to studies of the Earth's environment and resources on a global scale. A remote sensing strategy is presented for selective sampling of the properties and changes in the atmosphere, the oceans and on land in support of global biosystems research as proposed by NASA, including mineral cycling, ocean and terrestrial productivity, perturbation effects and biospheric responses. It is shown that remote sensors on satellites and aircraft should be used to update existing data bases and to monitor areas of high productivity or rapid change, rather than attempting to produce a costly inventory of all biosphere resources and processes.     

Basic space sciences in Africa

Through space applications, a number of social and economic programmes in education, communications, agro-climatology, weather forecasting and remote sensing are being realized within the African continent. Regional and international organizations and agencies such as the African Remote Sensing Council, the Pan-African Telecommunication Union and the United Nations system have been instrumental in making Africa conscious of the impact and implications of space science and technology on its peoples.The above notwithstanding, discernible interests in space research, to date, in Africa, have been limited to the work on the solar system and on interplanetary matters including satellite tracking, and to the joint African-Indian proposal for the establishment of an International Institute for Space Sciences and Electronics (INISSE) and the construction, in Kenya, of a Giant Equatorial Radio Telescope (GERT).During this “Transport and Communications Decade in Africa,” Africa's basic space research efforts would need to initially focus on the appropriateness, modification and adaptation of existing technologies for African conditions with a view to providing economic, reliable and functional services for the continent. These should include elements of electronics, communications, structural and tooling industries, and upper-atmosphere research. The experience of and collaborative work with India, Brazil and Argentina, as well as the roles of African scientists, are examined.     

遥感卫星原始数据格式分析及规范化研究

遥感卫星原始数据(RAW)格式不仅是遥感卫星地面系统运行和建设过程中的一个焦点问题,也是遥感数据用户十分关心的问题之一.目前,国内外对RAW数据格式的定义比较混乱,没有统一的行业标准,这种局面已严重影响到遥感卫星数据的高效使用及数据的长期存档,也严重制约了地面系统的进一步发展建设.本文通过分析国内外几种主流的遥感卫星RAW数据格式及特点,并结合中国遥感卫星地面站投入运行20年来的实践,提出了一种遥感卫星RAW格式方案,以期RAW数据格式早日规范化.