Mineral Detection Using Sharpened VNIR and SWIR Bands of Worldview-3 Satellite Imagery

Honglyun Park and Jaewan Choi
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Honglyun Park: School of Drone & Transportation Engineering, Youngsan University, Yangsan 50510, Korea
Jaewan Choi: School of Civil Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Chungbuk 28644, Korea

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 10, 1-11

Abstract: Worldview-3 satellite imagery provides panchromatic images with a high spatial resolution and visible near infrared (VNIR) and shortwave infrared (SWIR) bands with a low spatial resolution. These images can be used for various applications such as environmental analysis, urban monitoring and surveying for sustainability. In this study, mineral detection was performed using Worldview-3 satellite imagery. A pansharpening technique was applied to the spatial resolution of the panchromatic image to effectively utilize the VNIR and SWIR bands of Worldview-3 satellite imagery. The following representative similarity analysis techniques were implemented for the mineral detection: the spectral angle mapper (SAM), spectral information divergence (SID) and the normalized spectral similarity score (NS 3 ). In addition, pixels that could be estimated to indicate minerals were calculated by applying an empirical threshold to each similarity analysis result. A majority voting technique was applied to the results of each similarity analysis and pixels estimated to indicate minerals were finally selected. The results of each similarity analysis were compared to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed methods. From that comparison, it could be confirmed that false negative and false positive rates decreased when the methods proposed in the present study were applied.

Keywords: image fusion; Worldview-3; shortwave infrared; spectral angle mapper; mineral detection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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