The Importance of Physical Quantities for the Analysis of Multitemporal and Multiangular Optical Very High Spatial Resolution Images

The analysis of multitemporal very high spatial resolution imagery is too often limited to the sole use of pixel digital numbers which do not accurately describe the observed targets between the various collections due to the effects of changing illumination, viewing geometries, and atmospheric conditions. This paper demonstrates both qualitatively and quantitatively that not only physically based quantities are necessary to consistently and efficiently analyze these data sets but also the angular information of the acquisitions should not be neglected as it can provide unique features on the scenes being analyzed. The data set used is composed of 21 images acquired between 2002 and 2009 by QuickBird over the city of Denver, Colorado. The images were collected near the downtown area and include single family houses, skyscrapers, apartment complexes, industrial buildings, roads/highways, urban parks, and bodies of water. Experiments show that atmospheric and geometric properties of the acquisitions substantially affect the pixel values and, more specifically, that the raw counts are significantly correlated to the atmospheric visibility. Results of a 22-class urban land cover experiment show that an improvement of 0.374 in terms of Kappa coefficient can be achieved over the base case of raw pixels when surface reflectance values are combined to the angular decomposition of the time series.

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