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| Author(s): |
Azevedo, Samara
[1]
;
Silva, Erivaldo
[2]
;
Colnago, Marilaine
[3]
;
Negri, Rogerio
[4]
;
Casaca, Wallace
[3]
Total Authors: 5
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Fed Itajuba, Nat Resources Inst, Geomat, Itajuba, MG - Brazil
[2] Sao Paulo State Univ, Dept Cartog, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[3] Sao Paulo State Univ, Dept Energy Engn, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[4] Sao Paulo State Univ, Dept Environm Engn, Sao Jose Dos Campos - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 4
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | JOURNAL OF APPLIED REMOTE SENSING; v. 13, n. 3 AUG 9 2019. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 0 |
| Abstract | |
The presence of shadows in remote sensing images leads to misinterpretation of objects and a wrong discrimination of the targets of interest, therefore, limiting the use of several imaging applications. An automatic area-based approach for shadow detection is proposed, which combines spatial and spectral features into a unified and flexible approach. Potential shadow-pixels candidates are identified using morphological-based operators, in particular, black-top-hat transformations as well as area injunction strategies as computed by the well-established normalized saturation-value difference index. The obtained output is a shadow mask, refined in the last step of our method in order to reduce misclassified pixels. Experiments over a large dataset formed by more than 200 scenes of very high-resolution images covering the metropolitan urban area of Sao Paulo city are performed, where the images are collected from the WorldView-2 (WV-2) and Pleiades-1B (PL-1B) sensors. As verified by an extensive battery of tests, the proposed method provides a good level of discrimination between shadow and non-shadow pixels, with an overall accuracy up to 94.2%, for WV-2, and 90.84%, for PL-1B. Comparative results also attested that the designed approach is very competitive against representative state-of-the-art methods and it can be used for further shadow removal-dependent applications. (C) 2019 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/25257-4 - AUTOMATIC DETECTION AND REMOVAL OF SHADOWS OF ITS EFFECTS ON SPATIAL HIGH RESOLUTION DIGITAL IMAGES |
| Grantee: | Samara Calçado de Azevedo |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |