Urban Monitor Update including recent high resolution vegetation masks and relative elevation maps

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Kassel Hingee| Graduate Fellow

8th November 2012

• Urban Monitor History

• Recent Accomplishments • Vegetation/non-vegetation classification

• Vegetation Heights

• More Products

• Processed both 2007 and 2009

• AND we delivered them to DEC

• Can Land Monitor Benefit?

Urban Monitor Update | Kassel Hingee

Contents

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• Urban environments are highly dynamic and need monitoring

• Satellite resolutions are insufficient for complex urban/peri-urban scenes

• High resolution aerial photography is already collected at least annually for large cities, and fairly regularly in most other areas (adding a monitoring process is an economical opportunity wherever

photography is regularly gathered)

Because we want a quantitative monitoring system (more than humans

viewing images):

• New methods for the higher resolutions

• New methods for dealing with the variations in aerial photography

Urban Monitor Update | Kassel Hingee

Urban Monitor History Inception

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• Acquired every summer since 2007

• 9600km2

• Raw:

13TB to 40TB per annum

• Less than 0.3m GSD

• 4 bands: Near-infrared, Red, Green and Blue

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Urban Monitor History The Raw Data

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• 2.5 dimensional

• Used to orthorectify spectral data

• 0.2m GSD

• Storage: 1.3TB per annum

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Urban Monitor History Digital Surface Models

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• Calibrated to ground reflectance

• Consistent spectral values

• -> Classifications using spectral values

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Urban Monitor History Calibrated Orthophotos

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Uncalibrated Calibrated

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Urban Monitor History Qualitative Change Comparisons

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2009

2007

2007 vigour index in red 2009 vigour index in green

Recent Accomplishments

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Recent Accomplishments

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Photos from

aeroplane DSM

Ground

Elevation Model

Calibrated Multispectral

Images

Heights

of Pixels (nDSM)

Vegetation/non-veg

Classification

Vegetation

Heights

Vegetation

Vigour

Grass/non-grass

Classification

Tree/non-tree Classification

• Split region into tiles (easier to store, transport and open)

• 73 tiles, 13km by 15km each

• 0.2m GSD

• Both 2007 and 2009 processed

• Delivered all of it to DEC (about 20TB)

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Recent Accomplishments

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Urban Monitor Update | Kassel Hingee

Recent Accomplishments Digital Surface Model

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Urban Monitor Update | Kassel Hingee

Recent Accomplishments Ground Elevation Model

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Recent Accomplishments Heights above ground (nDSM)

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Recent Accomplishments Calibrated Orthophoto

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Urban Monitor Update | Kassel Hingee

Recent Accomplishments Vegetation/non-vegetation classification (nDSM displayed behind)

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Urban Monitor Update | Kassel Hingee

Recent Accomplishments Vegetation height (nDSM displayed behind)

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Urban Monitor Update | Kassel Hingee

Recent Accomplishments Vegetation vigour (nDSM displayed behind)

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Recent Accomplishments Irrigated Grass Mask (nDSM displayed behind)

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Recent Accomplishments Tree Mask (nDSM displayed behind)

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Whats Next

• Accuracy analysis

• Change maps

• Statistical summaries

• Multiclass classifications

• Shadow mask

• Water mask

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How Land Monitor Can Benefit

• High resolution aerial photography is being acquired by the state.

• Urban Monitor methods will easily transfer to 50cm resolution

• At 50 cm GSD: 1 tile ≈ 1:25 000 map sheet

• Quick, computer generated vegetation extents and vegetation heights.

• Much higher resolution ground elevations and vegetation masks

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CMIS Kassel Hingee Graduate Fellow

t (08) 9333 6010 e kass.hingee@csiro.au

CSIRO MATHEMATICS INFORMATICS AND STATISTICS

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