A tasseled cap transformation for Landsat 8 OLI TOA reflectance images

Author

Qingsheng Liu ; Gaohuan Liu ; Chong Huang ; Suhong Liu ; Jun Zhao

Author_Institution

Inst. of Geographic Sci. & Natural Resources Res., Beijing, China

fYear

2014

fDate

13-18 July 2014

Firstpage

541

Lastpage

544

Abstract

The Tasseled Cap Transformation (TCT) has been widely used in the remote sensing community. However, TCT is sensor dependent, so a new sensor requires a reworking of the TCT starting with analysis of data structure of images. The purpose of this paper is to derive the TCT parameters for the Landsat 8 OLI TOA Reflectance images, and compare the differences between the Tasseled Cap Transformation parameters derived from the spring and autumn images. The results from this paper suggest that the TCT parameters derived from the image from October is most appropriate for regional remote sensing applications over the Yellow River Delta, China where atmospheric correction is not feasible.

Keywords

atmospheric optics; atmospheric techniques; geophysical image processing; remote sensing; rivers; China; Landsat 8 OLI TOA reflectance images; TCT parameters; Yellow river delta; atmospheric correction; autumn images; remote sensing applications; spring images; tasseled cap transformation; Earth; Reflectivity; Remote sensing; Rivers; Satellites; Soil; Springs; Landsat 8 OLI; TOA reflectance image; Tasseled cap transformation; Yellow River Delta; season;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2014 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6946479

Filename

6946479