Emulation of Sun-Induced Fluorescence from Radiance Data Recorded by the HyPlant Airborne Imaging Spectrometer.
Journal:
Remote sensing
Published Date:
Oct 29, 2021
Abstract
The retrieval of sun-induced fluorescence (SIF) from hyperspectral radiance data grew to maturity with research activities around the FLuorescence EXplorer satellite mission FLEX, yet full-spectrum estimation methods such as the spectral fitting method (SFM) are computationally expensive. To bypass this computational load, this work aims to approximate the SFM-based SIF retrieval by means of statistical learning, i.e., . While emulators emerged as fast surrogate models of simulators, the accuracy-speedup trade-offs are still to be analyzed when the emulation concept is applied to experimental data. We evaluated the possibility of approximating the SFM-like SIF output directly based on radiance data while minimizing the loss in precision as opposed to SFM-based SIF. To do so, we implemented a double principal component analysis (PCA) dimensionality reduction, i.e., in both input and output, to achieve emulation of multispectral SIF output based on hyperspectral radiance data. We then evaluated systematically: (1) multiple machine learning regression algorithms, (2) number of principal components, (3) number of training samples, and (4) quality of training samples. The best performing SIF emulator was then applied to a HyPlant flight line containing at sensor radiance information, and the results were compared to the SFM SIF map of the same flight line. The emulated SIF map was quasi-instantaneously generated, and a good agreement against the reference SFM map was obtained with a of 0.88 and NRMSE of 3.77%. The SIF emulator was subsequently applied to 7 HyPlant flight lines to evaluate its robustness and portability, leading to a between 0.68 and 0.95, and a NRMSE between 6.42% and 4.13%. Emulated SIF maps proved to be consistent while processing time was in the order of 3 min. In comparison, the original SFM needed approximately 78 min to complete the SIF processing. Our results suggest that emulation can be used to efficiently reduce computational loads of SIF retrieval methods.
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