Classification and representation of commonly used roofing material using multisensorial aerial data

© Authors 2018. CC BY 4.0 License. As more cities are starting to experience the urban heat islands effect, knowledge about the energy emitted from building roofs is of primary importance. Since this energy depends both on roof orientations and materials, we tackled both issues by analysing sensor d...

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Main Authors: Ilehag, R., Bulatov, D., Helmholz, Petra, Belton, David
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71594
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author Ilehag, R.
Bulatov, D.
Helmholz, Petra
Belton, David
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Bulatov, D.
Helmholz, Petra
Belton, David
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description © Authors 2018. CC BY 4.0 License. As more cities are starting to experience the urban heat islands effect, knowledge about the energy emitted from building roofs is of primary importance. Since this energy depends both on roof orientations and materials, we tackled both issues by analysing sensor data from multispectral, thermal infrared, high-resolution RGB, and airborne laser datasets (each with different spatial resolutions) of a council in Perth, Australia. To localise the roofs, we acquired building outlines that had to be updated using the normalised digital surface model, the NDVI and the planarity. Then, we computed a semantic 3D model of the study area, with roof detail analysis being a particular focus. The main objective of this study, however, was to classify three commonly used roofing materials: Cement tiles, Colorbond and Zincalume by combining the multispectral and thermal infrared image bands while the high-resolution RGB dataset was used to provide additional information about the roof texture. Three types of image segmentation approaches were evaluated to assess any differences while performing the material classification; pixel-wise, superpixel-wise and building-wise image segmentation. Due to the limited amount of labelled data, we extended the dataset by labelling data ourselves and merged Colorbond and Zincalume into one separate class. The supervised classifier Random Forest was applied to all reasonable configurations of segmentation kinds, numbers of classes, and finally, keeping track of the added value of principal component analysis.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-715942018-12-13T09:34:21Z Classification and representation of commonly used roofing material using multisensorial aerial data Ilehag, R. Bulatov, D. Helmholz, Petra Belton, David © Authors 2018. CC BY 4.0 License. As more cities are starting to experience the urban heat islands effect, knowledge about the energy emitted from building roofs is of primary importance. Since this energy depends both on roof orientations and materials, we tackled both issues by analysing sensor data from multispectral, thermal infrared, high-resolution RGB, and airborne laser datasets (each with different spatial resolutions) of a council in Perth, Australia. To localise the roofs, we acquired building outlines that had to be updated using the normalised digital surface model, the NDVI and the planarity. Then, we computed a semantic 3D model of the study area, with roof detail analysis being a particular focus. The main objective of this study, however, was to classify three commonly used roofing materials: Cement tiles, Colorbond and Zincalume by combining the multispectral and thermal infrared image bands while the high-resolution RGB dataset was used to provide additional information about the roof texture. Three types of image segmentation approaches were evaluated to assess any differences while performing the material classification; pixel-wise, superpixel-wise and building-wise image segmentation. Due to the limited amount of labelled data, we extended the dataset by labelling data ourselves and merged Colorbond and Zincalume into one separate class. The supervised classifier Random Forest was applied to all reasonable configurations of segmentation kinds, numbers of classes, and finally, keeping track of the added value of principal component analysis. 2018 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71594 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-1-217-2018 restricted
spellingShingle Ilehag, R.
Bulatov, D.
Helmholz, Petra
Belton, David
Classification and representation of commonly used roofing material using multisensorial aerial data
title Classification and representation of commonly used roofing material using multisensorial aerial data
title_full Classification and representation of commonly used roofing material using multisensorial aerial data
title_fullStr Classification and representation of commonly used roofing material using multisensorial aerial data
title_full_unstemmed Classification and representation of commonly used roofing material using multisensorial aerial data
title_short Classification and representation of commonly used roofing material using multisensorial aerial data
title_sort classification and representation of commonly used roofing material using multisensorial aerial data
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/71594