Construction of smooth daily remote sensing time series data: a higher spatiotemporal resolution perspective

Zhuokun Pan,Bin Cao,Yueming Hu

doi:10.1186/s40965-017-0038-z

Abstract

Research in time-series remote sensing data is receiving increasing attention. With the availability of relatively short repeat cycle and high spatial resolution satellite data, the construction and application of high spatiotemporal remote sensing time-series data is promising. In this paper, we proposed a method to construct complete spatial time series data, with Savitzky-Golay filter for smoothing and locally-adaptive linear interpolation for generating daily NDVI imagery. An IDL-based program was developed to achieve this goal. The China’s HJ-1 A/B satellite data were employed for this remote sensing time series construction. The results demonstrated that: (1) This method can generate smooth continuous time series image data successfully based on irregularly short-revisit remote sensing data; (2) HJ-1 A/B NDVI time-series were demonstrated to be successful in monitoring crop phenology and hyperspectral analysis was successfully applied on HJ-1 A/B time-series data to perform temporal endmember extraction. The IDL-based time-series construction program is generalizable for various kind of multi-temporal remote sensing data such as MODIS vegetation-index product. Discussion and concluding remarks are made to reveal the authors’ perspective on higher spatial resolution time-series analysis in the remote sensing community.

Highlights

With the launch of high frequent remote sensing satellites and availability of data, time-series data derived from multi-temporal remote sensing images are receiving significant attention concerning the dynamics of regional vegetation growth, phenological crop identification, land use change detection, etc. [1,2,3,4]
The motivation of this paper was to provide a new method and a computer program that facilitates the construction of time-series remote sensing data with generalizable, potential, and practical applications, for up-todate high spatial resolution satellite data
This study presented comprehensive processing procedures to construct HJ-1 A/B NDVI time series: the Savitzky-Golay smoothing method was employed first to reduce noise components from the original curve to retrieve the original shape of the time-series profile; a locally adaptive linear interpolation was employed to generate daily NDVI based on the available imageries

Summary

Introduction

With the launch of high frequent remote sensing satellites and availability of data, time-series data derived from multi-temporal remote sensing images are receiving significant attention concerning the dynamics of regional vegetation growth, phenological crop identification, land use change detection, etc. [1,2,3,4]. With the launch of high frequent remote sensing satellites and availability of data, time-series data derived from multi-temporal remote sensing images are receiving significant attention concerning the dynamics of regional vegetation growth, phenological crop identification, land use change detection, etc. Vegetation indices (VI) products as time-series data have been widely employed in the remote sensing community. These data help us to understand the earth system and land-surface dynamics [4, 5]. Most of VI timeseries data was derived from low spatial resolution satellite platforms such as NOAA-AVHRR (Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer) instruments; EOS-MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro radiometer); and SPOT (Système Pour l’Observation de la Terre) VGT. Data fusion still rely on the availability of actual satellite images, and the quality of ingested remote sensing data. Even though it can be used to make synthetic images from multiple sources, these fused images cannot replace actual images [16]

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