Spectral-analysis-based extraction of land disturbances arising from oil and gas development in diverse landscapes

Ying Zhang; Nicholas Lantz; Bert Guindon; Xianfeng Jiao

doi:10.1117/1.JRS.11.015026

24 March 2017 Spectral-analysis-based extraction of land disturbances arising from oil and gas development in diverse landscapes

Ying Zhang, Nicholas Lantz, Bert Guindon, Xianfeng Jiao

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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 11, Issue 1, 015026 (March 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.11.015026

Abstract

Accurate and frequent monitoring of land surface changes arising from oil and gas exploration and extraction is a key requirement for the responsible and sustainable development of these resources. Petroleum deposits typically extend over large geographic regions but much of the infrastructure required for oil and gas recovery takes the form of numerous small-scale features (e.g., well sites, access roads, etc.) scattered over the landscape. Increasing exploitation of oil and gas deposits will increase the presence of these disturbances in heavily populated regions. An object-based approach is proposed to utilize RapidEye satellite imagery to delineate well sites and related access roads in diverse complex landscapes, where land surface changes also arise from other human activities, such as forest logging and agriculture. A simplified object-based change vector approach, adaptable to operational use, is introduced to identify the disturbances on land based on red–green spectral response and spatial attributes of candidate object size and proximity to roads. Testing of the techniques has been undertaken with RapidEye multitemporal imagery in two test sites located at Alberta, Canada: one was a predominant natural forest landscape and the other landscape dominated by intensive agricultural activities. Accuracies of 84% and 73%, respectively, have been achieved for the identification of well site and access road infrastructure of the two sites based on fully automated processing. Limited manual relabeling of selected image segments can improve these accuracies to 95%.

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Ying Zhang, Nicholas Lantz, Bert Guindon, and Xianfeng Jiao "Spectral-analysis-based extraction of land disturbances arising from oil and gas development in diverse landscapes," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 11(1), 015026 (24 March 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.11.015026

Received: 14 October 2016; Accepted: 22 February 2017; Published: 24 March 2017

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