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A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing Image Processing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 16748

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Dr. Behnood Rasti

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Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
Interests: signal and image processing; hyperspectral image analysis; remote sensing; multisensor data fusion; machine learning and control systems

Prof. Dr. Magnus Ulfarsson

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Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iceland, 102 Reykjavík, Iceland
Interests: image/signal processing; machine learning; remote sensing; hyperspectral imaging; hyperspectral unmixing; data fusion

Prof. Dr. Pedram Ghamisi

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1.Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), D-09599 Freiberg, Germany
2. Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI), 1030 Wien, Austria
Interests: hyperspectral image interpretation; multisensor and multitemporal data fusion
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Prof. Dr. Jon Atli Benediktsson

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Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iceland, IS 102 Reykjavík, Iceland
Interests: remote sensing; image analysis; pattern recognition; signal processing
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Prof. Dr. Jocelyn Chanussot

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Grenoble Institute of Technology, GIPSA-lab, 11 rue des Mathématiques, Grenoble Campus BP46, CEDEX, F-38402 Saint Martin d'Hères, France
Interests: image processing; machine learning; mathematical morphology; hyperspectral imaging; data fusion
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Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in remote sensing technologies and their corresponding variety provide complementary information for the target detection, analysis, and observation of the Earth. However, the complexity and variety in remote sensing imaging technologies makes the simultaneous interpretation of the different data sources from ground measurements to aerial and space measurements very challenging. First, the large amount of multisource data makes the analysis cumbersome for the end-users. Second, integrating and interpreting multisource data requires one to develop exclusive image analysis techniques due to the different characteristics of the data, which are often caused by differences in the measurement techniques. As a result, conventional image processing techniques often either fail or they are not efficient enough for multisensor data analysis.

The main aim of this Special Issue is to present the most recent image processing and machine learning techniques for land-cover mapping and tracking using multisensor data such as hyperspectral, multispectral, light detection and ranging, and synthetic aperture radar data. We invite both analytical and application-oriented land-cover mapping techniques and procedures that integrate two or more remote sensing measurements, to be submitted in this Special Issue.

Dr. Behnood Rasti
Prof. Magnus Ulfarsson
Dr. Pedram Ghamisi
Prof. Jon Atli Benediktsson
Prof. Jocelyn Chanussot
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Multisensor fusion
Multitemporal fusion
Remote sensing
Land-cover mapping
Advanced image analysis
Machine learning
Deep learning

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Multilevel Structure Extraction-Based Multi-Sensor Data Fusion

by Puhong Duan, Xudong Kang, Pedram Ghamisi and Yu Liu

Remote Sens. 2020, 12(24), 4034; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12244034 - 09 Dec 2020

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Multi-sensor data on the same area provide complementary information, which is helpful for improving the discrimination capability of classifiers. In this work, a novel multilevel structure extraction method is proposed to fuse multi-sensor data. This method is comprised of three steps: First, multilevel structure extraction is constructed by cascading morphological profiles and structure features, and is utilized to extract spatial information from multiple original images. Then, a low-rank model is adopted to integrate the extracted spatial information. Finally, a spectral classifier is employed to calculate class probabilities, and a maximum posteriori estimation model is used to decide the final labels. Experiments tested on three datasets including rural and urban scenes validate that the proposed approach can produce promising performance with regard to both subjective and objective qualities. Full article

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Data Fusion Using a Multi-Sensor Sparse-Based Clustering Algorithm

by Kasra Rafiezadeh Shahi, Pedram Ghamisi, Behnood Rasti, Robert Jackisch, Paul Scheunders and Richard Gloaguen

Remote Sens. 2020, 12(23), 4007; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12234007 - 07 Dec 2020

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The increasing amount of information acquired by imaging sensors in Earth Sciences results in the availability of a multitude of complementary data (e.g., spectral, spatial, elevation) for monitoring of the Earth’s surface. Many studies were devoted to investigating the usage of multi-sensor data sets in the performance of supervised learning-based approaches at various tasks (i.e., classification and regression) while unsupervised learning-based approaches have received less attention. In this paper, we propose a new approach to fuse multiple data sets from imaging sensors using a multi-sensor sparse-based clustering algorithm (Multi-SSC). A technique for the extraction of spatial features (i.e., morphological profiles (MPs) and invariant attribute profiles (IAPs)) is applied to high spatial-resolution data to derive the spatial and contextual information. This information is then fused with spectrally rich data such as multi- or hyperspectral data. In order to fuse multi-sensor data sets a hierarchical sparse subspace clustering approach is employed. More specifically, a lasso-based binary algorithm is used to fuse the spectral and spatial information prior to automatic clustering. The proposed framework ensures that the generated clustering map is smooth and preserves the spatial structures of the scene. In order to evaluate the generalization capability of the proposed approach, we investigate its performance not only on diverse scenes but also on different sensors and data types. The first two data sets are geological data sets, which consist of hyperspectral and RGB data. The third data set is the well-known benchmark Trento data set, including hyperspectral and LiDAR data. Experimental results indicate that this novel multi-sensor clustering algorithm can provide an accurate clustering map compared to the state-of-the-art sparse subspace-based clustering algorithms. Full article

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A Hybrid Attention-Aware Fusion Network (HAFNet) for Building Extraction from High-Resolution Imagery and LiDAR Data

by Peng Zhang, Peijun Du, Cong Lin, Xin Wang, Erzhu Li, Zhaohui Xue and Xuyu Bai

Remote Sens. 2020, 12(22), 3764; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12223764 - 16 Nov 2020

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Automated extraction of buildings from earth observation (EO) data has long been a fundamental but challenging research topic. Combining data from different modalities (e.g., high-resolution imagery (HRI) and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data) has shown great potential in building extraction. Recent studies have examined the role that deep learning (DL) could play in both multimodal data fusion and urban object extraction. However, DL-based multimodal fusion networks may encounter the following limitations: (1) the individual modal and cross-modal features, which we consider both useful and important for final prediction, cannot be sufficiently learned and utilized and (2) the multimodal features are fused by a simple summation or concatenation, which appears ambiguous in selecting cross-modal complementary information. In this paper, we address these two limitations by proposing a hybrid attention-aware fusion network (HAFNet) for building extraction. It consists of RGB-specific, digital surface model (DSM)-specific, and cross-modal streams to sufficiently learn and utilize both individual modal and cross-modal features. Furthermore, an attention-aware multimodal fusion block (Att-MFBlock) was introduced to overcome the fusion problem by adaptively selecting and combining complementary features from each modality. Extensive experiments conducted on two publicly available datasets demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed HAFNet for building extraction. Full article

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A Multi-Sensor Fusion Framework Based on Coupled Residual Convolutional Neural Networks

by Hao Li, Pedram Ghamisi, Behnood Rasti, Zhaoyan Wu, Aurelie Shapiro, Michael Schultz and Alexander Zipf

Remote Sens. 2020, 12(12), 2067; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12122067 - 26 Jun 2020

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Multi-sensor remote sensing image classification has been considerably improved by deep learning feature extraction and classification networks. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-sensor fusion framework for the fusion of diverse remote sensing data sources. The novelty of this paper is grounded in three important design innovations: 1- a unique adaptation of the coupled residual networks to address multi-sensor data classification; 2- a smart auxiliary training via adjusting the loss function to address classifications with limited samples; and 3- a unique design of the residual blocks to reduce the computational complexity while preserving the discriminative characteristics of multi-sensor features. The proposed classification framework is evaluated using three different remote sensing datasets: the urban Houston university datasets (including Houston 2013 and the training portion of Houston 2018) and the rural Trento dataset. The proposed framework achieves high overall accuracies of 93.57%, 81.20%, and 98.81% on Houston 2013, the training portion of Houston 2018, and Trento datasets, respectively. Additionally, the experimental results demonstrate considerable improvements in classification accuracies compared with the existing state-of-the-art methods. Full article

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