Information Technologies in Remote Sensing of the Earth

The process of technology automation of satellite data thematic processing presented in the article includes two main stages: the development of classification algorithm and the creation of a software module based on them. At the first stage, algorithm (decision tree) was developed to isolate water surfaces in conditions of destroyed ice cover using medium resolution satellite images (Landsat-8, OLI). The article presents the final dendrogram, examples of the thematic maps and the results of accuracy assessment in comparison with standard masks and supervised classification. At the second stage, a software module based on the IDL language was created. This module allows to perform the following tasks automatically: primary data processing, classification, “cleaning” the results, exporting to a vector format.

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Information Technologies in Remote Sensing of the Earth - RORSE 2018

Proceedings of the 16th Conference (November 12-16, 2018, Moscow, Russia)

Technology Automation of Satellite Data Processing for Operational Mapping of Water and Ice Surfaces

Section 2. Methods and algorithms for processing remote monitoring data