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Study on Acquiring Appropriate Scales of Ground Features Based on Monte Carlo Simulation
Received date: 2014-12-31
Request revised date: 2015-02-22
Online published: 2015-07-08
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The semi-variogarm has been widely applied in many fields such as mining, soil science, and environmental science to acquire the impact range of spatial process. In remote sensing, it could be used to analyze the spatial structure of remote sensing images or obtain appropriate scales for ground features in the images. Nevertheless, images with huge sizes make the application of semi-variogram on remote sensing different from other disciplines. The computers, on which the semi-variogram curves are calculated and fitted, need more memory and stronger CPUs, which is seemingly impossible to always meet the requirement. A common solution is to decrease the data volume by random sampling, under this circumstance. Specifically, a small amount of samples are selected randomly from the population and analyzed for supposed result instead of using the whole population. This method does decrease the requirement of analysis for computing capacity and memory of computers. However, the accuracy of analysis drops simultaneously, because the result derived from samples in one single sampling is likely to contain errors. To solve this problem that related to spatial structure analysis, this study proposed a method based on Monte Carlo simulation in which a small amount of samples are taken from the huge-volume population for enormous times and then analyzed respectively. In this way, the amount of computation in a single simulation can be reduced to the level that an average computer could tolerate, meanwhile the accuracy can be guaranteed. Also, the parallel computing technology was introduced in this study in order to minimize the time needed for simulation. The parallel computing of semi-variogram was executed in MATLAB whose parallel computing service is simple and easy to manipulate. The experimental area is a rectangular part of An'sai County of Shaanxi Province, China, with an area of 41.32 square kilometers. In this area, there are many types of ground features such as forest, grass, water, farmland and built area. Among all these features, grass is the dominant one. The simulation result shows that, this method could acquire appropriate scales for the common ground features while keeping the estimation errors low.
Key words: Monte Carlo simulation; semi-variogram; appropriate scale; grid
ZHU Junxiang , WANG Juanle . Study on Acquiring Appropriate Scales of Ground Features Based on Monte Carlo Simulation[J]. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2015 , 17(7) : 798 -803 . DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1047.2015.00798
Fig. 1 The test site location图1 试验区位置图 |
Fig. 2 An ideal semi-variogram图2 理论半方差图 |
Fig. 3 Experiment workflow图3 实验流程 |
Fig. 4 The probability distribution of simulation ranges图4 模拟变程概率分布 |
Fig. 5 The normality test of all simulation results图5 各地物类型模拟结果的正态性检验 |
Tab. 1 The statistical analysis of simulation results表1 模拟结果统计分析 |
建筑(m) | 农田(m) | 森林(m) | 草地(m) | 水体(m) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
中值 | 159.3 | 334.9 | 307.1 | 294.1 | 252.0 |
均值 | 160.6 | 335.7 | 308.4 | 294.4 | 253.9 |
方差 | 277.9 | 366.6 | 695.0 | 437.8 | 1664.3 |
Tab. 2 The 95% and 99% confidence intervals of all ground features表2 各地物类型95%、99%置信区间 |
建筑(m) | 农田(m) | 森林(m) | 草地(m) | 水体(m) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
95%置信上限 | 161.6 | 336.8 | 310.0 | 295.7 | 256.5 |
95%置信下限 | 159.5 | 334.5 | 306.8 | 293.1 | 251.4 |
99%置信上限 | 161.9 | 337.2 | 310.5 | 296.1 | 257.3 |
99%置信下限 | 159.2 | 334.1 | 306.2 | 292.7 | 250.6 |
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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