arXiv:2608.17822physics.soc-phcs.LG2026-08

用免费遥感数据精准估算城市建筑高度,助力资源与灾后评估。

Spatially explicit feature importance for building height estimation using research-access high-resolution SAR and optical sensors

  • 融合多源免费遥感数据,用地理加权随机森林建模。
  • 预测误差仅5.34米,决定系数达0.756,性能优于传统方法。
  • 揭示不同建筑类型下各传感器的主导作用,适合城市规划者使用。

在南半球城市,精确获取个体建筑高度信息对材料存量核算和灾后损毁评估至关重要,但受限于航空激光雷达覆盖稀少及商业超高清影像成本高或不可得。尽管已有研究利用免费的哨兵系列影像进行建筑高度估计,其分辨率仍不足以支撑材料分析。本研究整合了科研许可下可获取的TerraSAR-X StripMap、PlanetScope及Sentinel-1数据,针对巴西一特大城市预测建筑高度。为应对训练集中的空间自相关性,采用地理加权随机森林模型,与激光雷达参考数据对比,得到均方根误差5.34米,决定系数0.756。局部特征重要性显示:低层建筑以轮廓几何占优,高层孤立建筑依赖阴影推导高度,最高建筑则由光谱反射率主导。哨兵-1后向散射与干涉测量结果互补,无单一传感器在全区域最优。结果为卫星数据在不同场景下的预测效用提供了决策参考,这是全球机器学习或神经网络模型无法实现的洞察。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate building height information at the individual footprint scale is essential for material stock accounting and post-disaster damage assessments yet remains difficult to obtain at city scale in the Global South where airborne LiDAR coverage is rare and commercial very high-resolution imagery is cost-prohibitive or unavailable. While recent works have demonstrated building height estimation using freely available Sentinel imagery, the resolution ceiling of resulting products is still coarse for material stock analysis. This study incorporates products derived from data freely accessible under scientific research licenses, TerraSAR-X StripMap and PlanetScope, alongside Sentinel-1 to predict building heights in a large city in Brazil. To account for the spatial autocorrelation in the training set, features from all sources are integrated in a geographically weighted random forest model, returning an RMSE of 5.34 m and R2 of 0.756 against a LiDAR reference dataset. Local feature importance showed predictor dominance to vary consistently across intra-urban contexts, with footprint geometry dominating for low-rise buildings, shadow-derived height for taller and more isolated structures, and spectral reflectance for the tallest buildings in the set. Sentinel-1 backscatter and InSAR occupy complementary spatial niches, with no single sensor uniformly preferable across the set. Results provide optioneering guidance and insight over satellite-derived products predictive relevance in distinct contexts, which global machine learning or neural network models cannot offer.

建筑高度估计遥感融合地理加权模型开源数据

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