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Spatial Validation of Spectral Unmixing Results: A Case Study of Venice City

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Spatial Validation of Spectral Unmixing Results: A Case Study of Venice City

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Author	Rosa Maria Cavalli
Abstract	Since remote sensing images offer unique access to the distribution of land cover on earth, many countries are investing in this technique to monitor urban sprawl. For this purpose, the most widely used methodology is spectral unmixing which, after identifying the spectra of the mixed-pixel constituents, determines their fractional abundances in the pixel. However, the literature highlights shortcomings in spatial validation due to the lack of detailed ground truth knowledge and proposes five key requirements for accurate reference fractional abundance maps: they should cover most of the area, their spatial resolution should be higher than that of the results, they should be validated using other ground truth data, the full range of abundances should be validated, and errors in co-localization and spatial resampling should be minimized. However, most proposed reference maps met two or three requirements and none met all five. In situ and remote data acquired in Venice were exploited to meet all five requirements. Moreover, to obtain more information about the validation procedure, not only reference spectra, synthetic image, and fractional abundance models (FAMs) that met all the requirements, but also other data, that no previous work exploited, were employed: reference fractional abundance maps that met four out of five requirements, and fractional abundance maps retrieved from the synthetic image. Briefly summarizing the main results obtained from MIVIS data, the average of spectral accuracies in root mean square error was equal to 0.025; using FAMs, the average of spatial accuracies in mean absolute error $(MAE_{k-Totals}$) was equal to 1.32 and more than 78% of these values were related to sensor characteristics; using reference fractional abundance maps, the average $MAE_{k-Totals}$ value increased to 1.97 because errors in co-localization and spatial-resampling affected about 29% of these values. In conclusion, meeting all requirements and the exploitation of different reference data increase the spatial accuracy, upgrade the validation procedure, and improve the knowledge of accuracy.
e-ISSN	20724292
DOI	10.3390/rs14205165
Journal	Remote Sensing
Issue Number	5165
Volume Number	14
Language	English
Publisher	MDPI AG
Publisher Date	2022-10-01
Publisher Place	Switzerland
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Science Spectral Unmixing Linear Mixture Model Spatial and Spectral Accuracy Synthetic Image Fractional Abundance Models Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis (mesma)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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