Object-oriented feature extraction approach for mapping supraglacial debris in Schirmacher Oasis using very high-resolution satellite data

Shridhar D. Jawak; Ajay Jadhav; Alvarinho J. Luis

doi:10.1117/12.2223012

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5 May 2016 Object-oriented feature extraction approach for mapping supraglacial debris in Schirmacher Oasis using very high-resolution satellite data

Shridhar D. Jawak, Ajay Jadhav, Alvarinho J. Luis

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Proceedings Volume 9877, Land Surface and Cryosphere Remote Sensing III; 98772L (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223012
Event: SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing, 2016, New Delhi, India

Abstract

Supraglacial debris was mapped in the Schirmacher Oasis, east Antarctica, by using WorldView-2 (WV-2) high resolution optical remote sensing data consisting of 8-band calibrated Gram Schmidt (GS)-sharpened and atmospherically corrected WV-2 imagery. This study is a preliminary attempt to develop an object-oriented rule set to extract supraglacial debris for Antarctic region using 8-spectral band imagery. Supraglacial debris was manually digitized from the satellite imagery to generate the ground reference data. Several trials were performed using few existing traditional pixel-based classification techniques and color-texture based object-oriented classification methods to extract supraglacial debris over a small domain of the study area. Multi-level segmentation and attributes such as scale, shape, size, compactness along with spectral information from the data were used for developing the rule set. The quantitative analysis of error was carried out against the manually digitized reference data to test the practicability of our approach over the traditional pixel-based methods. Our results indicate that OBIA-based approach (overall accuracy: 93%) for extracting supraglacial debris performed better than all the traditional pixel-based methods (overall accuracy: 80−85%). The present attempt provides a comprehensive improved method for semiautomatic feature extraction in supraglacial environment and a new direction in the cryospheric research.

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Shridhar D. Jawak, Ajay Jadhav, and Alvarinho J. Luis "Object-oriented feature extraction approach for mapping supraglacial debris in Schirmacher Oasis using very high-resolution satellite data", Proc. SPIE 9877, Land Surface and Cryosphere Remote Sensing III, 98772L (5 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2223012

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