Abstract
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) offers an unprecedented observing potential with ultrahigh spatial and temporal resolutions and high flexibility. However, it remains difficult to solve the radiometric inconsistency of multiflight UAV imagery. This study proposed a relative radiometric correction method for multiflight UAV images based on concurrent satellite imagery (MACA) consisting of two steps, i.e., cross-sensor spectral fitting (CSF) and fine-resolution spectral calibration (FSC). In CSF, relationships of multiflight UAV reflectance and the concurrent satellite reflectance were established for generating the fine-resolution reference imagery. Subsequently, a relative radiometric correction model was constructed in the FSC step to correct multiflight UAV imagery. The performance of MACA was evaluated using multiflight UAV datasets acquired on six cropland sites and a concurrent Sentinel-2 image. Compared with four typical or state-of-the-art relative correction methods, the correction using MACA yielded better consistency between UAV and Sentinel-2 data, regardless of individual spectral bands (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{R}^{2} =0.79$ </tex-math></inline-formula>–0.86, root mean square error (RMSE) <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$=0.004$ </tex-math></inline-formula>–0.019) or vegetation indices (VIs) (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{R}^{2} =0.80$ </tex-math></inline-formula>–0.86, RMSE <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$=0.024$ </tex-math></inline-formula>–0.054). Moreover, the prediction of plant nitrogen accumulation (PNA) based on the MACA-corrected UAV data had the highest accuracy and showed the spatial variation most significantly within and between fields for all sites. The results demonstrated that MACA was more robust in reducing spectral mismatch across sensors and eliminating the subjective error of pseudo-invariant features (PIFs) selection. MACA has the potential to be used to cross-calibrate multisensor data into a consistent standard, which will benefit multisensor synergies.
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