Improvement of effective spatial resolution of thermal infrared data for urban landuse classification

Author

Kishore Das, D. ; Gopal Rao, K. ; Prakash, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil Eng., ITT Bombay, India

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

332

Lastpage

336

Abstract

Remotely sensed thermal infrared (TIR) data contains information on emitted radiation that is complementary to that in the visible (VIS) and near infrared (NIR) spectrum. Despite the unique radiometric properties, the application of TIR data has been rather restricted, especially in urban areas that require higher spatial resolutions for accurate classification, mainly due to its coarse spatial resolution. This paper presents the methods adopted to improve the effective spatial resolution of TIR data and use its complementary information content for improved urban landuse classification. In this study spatial filtering and data fusion are applied to improve the effective spatial resolution of Landsat-5 TM band 6 data of Mumbai, a metropolitan city in western India. Supervised classification was performed, without the input of TIR data and with the input of improved spatial resolution TIR data and the results are compared

Keywords

image classification; image resolution; sensor fusion; spatial filters; terrain mapping; India; Landsat-5 TM band 6; Mumbai; TIR data; accurate classification; data fusion; effective spatial resolution; emitted radiation; spatial filtering; supervised classification; thermal infrared data; urban areas; urban landuse classification; Energy resolution; Filtering; Geology; Infrared sensors; Infrared spectra; Radiometry; Remote sensing; Satellites; Spatial resolution; Urban areas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Remote Sensing and Data Fusion over Urban Areas, IEEE/ISPRS Joint Workshop 2001

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7059-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DFUA.2001.985908

Filename

985908