• DocumentCode
    2699273
  • Title

    A level-based method for urban mapping using NPP-VIIRS nighttime light data

  • Author

    Jaturapitpornchai, Raveerat ; Kasetkasem, Teerasit ; Kumazawa, Itsuo ; Rakwatin, Preesan ; Chanwimaluang, Thitiporn

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Kasetsart Univ., Bangkok, Thailand
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    22-24 March 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we propose a level-set method to identify urban areas using a nighttime light data of Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). Our method is compared to two standard methods, called the Otsu´s threshold-based method and the k-mean clustering method. The experimental results indicates significant improvement in terms of the Kappa coefficients.
  • Keywords
    infrared imaging; level measurement; radiometers; Kappa coefficients; NPP-VIIRS nighttime light data; Otsu threshold method; Suomi national polar-orbiting partnership; k-mean clustering method; level-based method; urban areas; urban mapping; visible infrared imaging radiometer suite; Clouds; Electronic mail; Level set; Mathematical model; Sociology; Statistics; Urban areas; DNB; Level set; Urban mapping; VIIRS;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information and Communication Technology for Embedded Systems (IC-ICTES), 2015 6th International Conference of
  • Conference_Location
    Hua-Hin
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTEmSys.2015.7110830
  • Filename
    7110830