GE Yong 1, 3, WANG Jin feng 1, et al. Study on the Uncertainty of Remote Sensing Information[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2004, (4): 339-348. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.20040408.
Remote Sensing technologies have been applied to environmental management
monitoring and control. Remote Sensing technologies are also being applied to monitor land desertification
land use cover
environment pollution
etc. Due to limitations in instrument and processing technology in RS
system errors and measurement errors may corrupt the data. Errors may be associated with both attribute value and its location. After collecting spatiald ata
we then need to process
analyze and convert the data in order to make RS information understandable to users. When we produce the final RS products
new errors can be created as a result of spatial operations on maps or images that contain errors (spatial error propagation). If we ignore these errors in the RS products
it can result in economic loss. Though
the uncertainty of remote sensing information has been a hotspot in the spatial information process and many research have provided us lots of valuable results
however very few of them is on the mechanism based. The existing methods applied to the uncertainty analysis of RS will lead to the blind spot where uncertainty could not be analyzed
and uncertainty in subsequent image product will be propagated
tracked and quantified inconveniently. In this paper
we propose a framework to deal with these problems.