Detecting underground structures in Cyprus using field spectroscopy

George Melillos; Kyriacos Themistocleous; Athos Agapiou; Silas Michaelides; Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis

doi:10.1117/12.2324270

6 August 2018 Detecting underground structures in Cyprus using field spectroscopy

George Melillos, Kyriacos Themistocleous, Athos Agapiou, Silas Michaelides, Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis

Proceedings Volume 10773, Sixth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2018); 107730A (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2324270
Event: Sixth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2018), 2018, Paphos, Cyprus

Abstract

Satellite remote sensing is considered as an increasingly important technology for detect underground structures. It can be applied to a wide range of applications as shown from various researchers. However, there is a great need to integrate information from a variety of sources, sent at different times and of different qualities using remote sensing tools. This paper presents the results obtained from field spectroradiometric campaigns at ‘buried’ underground structures in Cyprus. A SVC-HR1024 field spectroradiometer was used and in-band reflectances were determined for medium and high resolution satellite sensors, including Landsat. A number of vegetation indices such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Simple Ratio (SR) and Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) were utilized for the development of a vegetation index-based procedure aiming at the detection of underground military structures by using existing vegetation indices or other in-band algorithms. In this study, test areas were identified, analyzed and modeled under different scenarios, including: (a) the ‘natural state’ of the underground structure; (b) the different type of crop over the underground structure and imported soil; (c) the different types of non-natural material over the underground structure. A reference target in the nearby area was selected as a baseline.

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George Melillos, Kyriacos Themistocleous, Athos Agapiou, Silas Michaelides, and Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis "Detecting underground structures in Cyprus using field spectroscopy ", Proc. SPIE 10773, Sixth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2018), 107730A (6 August 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2324270

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