Abstract
Hyperspectral images are of increasing importance in remote sensing applications. Imaging spectrometers provide semi-continuous spectra that can be used for physics based surface cover material identification and quantification. Preceding radiometric calibrations serve as a basis for the transformation of measured signals into physics based units such as radiance. Pushbroom sensors collect incident radiation by at least one detector array utilizing the photoelectric effect. Temporal variations of the detector characteristics that differ with foregoing radiometric calibration cause visually perceptible along-track stripes in the at-sensor radiance data that aggravate succeeding image-based analyses. Especially, variations of the thermally induced dark current dominate and have to be reduced. In this work, a new approach is presented that efficiently reduces dark current related stripe noise. It integrates an across-effect gradient minimization principle. The performance has been evaluated using artificially degraded whiskbroom (reference) and real pushbroom acquisitions from EO-1 Hyperion and AISA DUAL that are significantly covered by stripe noise. A set of quality indicators has been used for the accuracy assessment. They clearly show that the new approach outperforms a limited set of tested state-of-the-art approaches and achieves a very high accuracy related to ground-truth for selected tests. It may substitute recent algorithms in the Reduction of Miscalibration Effects (ROME) framework that is broadly used to reduce radiometric miscalibrations of pushbroom data takes.
Highlights
Remote sensing data acquisitions broadly serve as a basis for spatiotemporal analyses of the status and the dynamic of the Earth’s surface
The visual inspection as well as the new defined image quality index for successive destriping indicate that the proposed approach outperforms all other inspected approaches for real hyperspectral pushbroom acquisitions, such as those from AISA or Hyperion
Because this approach significantly outperforms the latest approach [9] of the ROME framework, it can be expected that destriping of data acquisitions from APEX, ASTER and CHRIS/Proba will be improved in comparison with the approach described in [9], but this was not tested
Summary
Remote sensing data acquisitions broadly serve as a basis for spatiotemporal analyses of the status and the dynamic of the Earth’s surface. The increasing demand for spatially highly resolved geoinformation rises the quantity of different sensors and acquisition platforms. Optical systems such as imaging spectrometers offer continuous spectra on a pixel basis enabling the identification and quantification of surface cover materials due to their spectral response on incident electromagnetic radiation. Imaging spectrometers that follow the line scanner principle utilize either the whiskbroom technology such as the airborne HyMAP (Hyperspectral Mapper) [1] or the pushbroom technology such as the spaceborne EO-1 Hyperion [2] or the airborne AISA (Airborne Imaging Spectrometer for Applications) Dual [3]. Scanners that utilize the pushbroom technology are mostly used because a longer integration time enables a better Signal-To-Noise Ratio (SNR) compared to whisk-broom scanners. With regard to [4,5,6], such effects can be considered as miscalibration and may consist of linear and non-linear signal dependent and independent fractions
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