The radiance received by a spaceborne or airborne instrument looking at nadir at an altitude of Z (km) is described by the RTE for plane parallel atmospheres as stated by Lenoble [1] is given by: where J (z) is a source function. The term is the medium transmittance from level s=0 to level s=Z, and defined as: where  (r) is the extinction coefficient. A semi-analytical model based on the RTE was used to mathematically represent the propagation of the signal through the medium. The model used was proposed by Lee in [3, 4]. In this model the signal received by the sensor is represented as: with, and where r rs is the subsurface remote sensing reflectance,  w is solar zenith angle,  is the bottom albedo, H is the bottom depth, a is the absorption coefficient and b is the backscattering coefficient, the last two being wavelength dependent. The signal the sensor receives is what is known as above-surface remote sensing reflectance ( R rs ) and is related to the subsurface remote sensing reflectance by: Thus, this model depends on the following variables H,  w, , a and b. The bottom albedo (  ) is the quantity we want to attain after the inversion process. Selecting the Regularization Parameter by minimizing the Euclidean Distance Define E ki (  ) as the error for every pixel after inverting the kth pixel in the imagery at each  for the albedo of the ith spectral signature as: where P reg (k) is the regularized pixel k, and P 0 (i) is the a priori estimate of the ith signal without the medium, which are calibrated stored spectral signatures. The optimum  opt (k i ) for kth pixel and ith signal will be selected as point of maximum curvature of the error function E ki (  ), defined as: The resulting stored spectral signature approach P 0 (i) and regularization parameter is obtained by: Selection of the regularization parameter Forward Model – Matrix Form where meanwhile is the water column contribution at i wavelength. Our interest is to estimate  ( i ) from the measured R rs. Inverse Problem. where P is the least square solution. This formulation is often used when the problem is overdetermined, meaning that with m > n. In this case m = n as a consequence the least square problem can be stated as P = A -1 b. Yet, this formulation does not account for the uncertainties ( H,  w, a and b ) present in the problem. Inverse problem solution Inverse problem solution using Tikhonov regularization can be expressed as: or P 0 represents the spectral signature of an object of interest (spectral signatures of coral reefs, pollution plume, sand, grass, etc.). For computational purposes  2 has been expressed as with. Figure 1. Figure 1. Relation between the parameter , the regularized albedo P reg and the stored spectral signature P 0. Problem Formulation [1]Lenoble, J., Atmospheric radiative transfer. A. Deepak Publishing, [2]Vélez M., Jiménez L. “Subset Selection Analysis for the Reduction of Hyperspectral Imagery”, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Proceedings, IGARSS '98. IEEE International Volume 3, pp , [3] Zhongping, L., Carder, C., Mobley, C., Steward, R., Patch, J., “Hyperspectral remote sensing for shallow waters: 1. A semianalytical model” Applied Optics, vol. 37, No.27, September , pp [4] Zhongping, L., Carder, C., Mobley, C., Steward, R., Patch, J., “Hyperspectral remote sensing for shallow waters: 2. Deriving bottom depths and water properties by optimization” Applied Optics, vol. 38 No18, June , pp [5]Jimenez, L.O., Rodriguez-Díaz, E., Velez-Reyes, M., DiMarzio, C., ”Image Reconstruction and Subsurface Detection by the Application of Tikhonov Regularization to Inverse Problems in Hyperspectral Images, ” SPIE Asia-Pacific, Hangzhou China, October [6]Rodriguez-Díaz, E., Jimenez-Rodriguez, L.O., Velez-Reyes, M., "Subsurface Detection of Coral Reefs in Shallow Waters using Hyperspectral Data,” SPIE AeroSense 2003, Orlando, Florida, April [7]Jimenez, L.O., Umaña-Díaz, A., Díaz-Santos, J., Geradino-Neira, C., Morales-Morales, J., Rodriguez, Díaz, E., “Subsurface Object Recognition by Means of Regularization Techniques for Mapping Coastal Waters Floor, ” SPIE Europe, Bruges, Belgium, September Subsurface Object Recognition by Means of Regularization Techniques for Mapping Coastal Waters Floor Luis O. Jiménez-Rodríguez 1, Alejandra Umaña-Díaz 2, Jose Díaz-Santos 3, Gerardino Neira-Carolina 4, Javier Morales-Morales 5, Eladio Rodriguez University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus Further development and tuning of this algorithm. It will be applied to the case of one object of interest versus an unknown background. Addition of spatial information. Adaptation and application to Bio-Med Testbed will be in place. As can be observed the data was well analyzed even on the conditions of lack of precise knowledge of the parameters of the shallow ocean waters. The incorporation of physics-based models plus the fusion of a priori information in the forms of store signatures about the solution increases the detection performance of objects of interests under shallow coastal waters. The use of a methodology that incorporates a priori information increases classification accuracy when compared to methodologies that do not. A fundamental challenge to Remote Sensing is mapping the ocean floor in coastal shallow waters where variability, due to the interaction between the coast and the sea, can bring significant disparity in the optical properties of the water column. The objects to be detected, coral reefs, sands and submerged aquatic vegetation, have weak signals, with temporal and spatial variation. In real scenarios the absorption and backscattering coefficients have spatial variation due to different sources of variability (river discharge, different depths of shallow waters, water currents) and temporal fluctuations. This paper presents the development of algorithms for retrieving information and its application to the recognition, classification and mapping of objects under coastal shallow waters. A mathematical model that simplifies the radiative transfer equation was used to quantify the interaction between the object of interest, the medium and the sensor. The retrieval of information requires the development of mathematical models and processing tools in the area of inversion, image reconstruction and detection. The algorithms developed were applied to one set of remotely sensed data: a high resolution HYPERION hyperspectral imagery. An inverse problem arises as this spectral data is used for mapping the ocean shallow waters floor. Tikhonov method of regularization was used in the inversion process to estimate the bottom albedo of the ocean floor using a priori information in the form of stored spectral signatures, previously measured, of objects of interest, such as sand, corals, and sea grass. Abstract The goal of this research is to analyze the spectral signals to retrieve information content through inversion methods, feature extraction/dimensional reduction and the detection/classification methods in hyperspectral data analysis under conditions of lack of precise knowledge of medium parameters, i.e. absorption and scattering properties of water, along with absorption and scattering of chlorophyll, organic material and suspended sediment present in the medium. This will improve the detection of objects embedded in highly complex medium. GoalCONTACT: 1 1 tel. (787) tel. (787) tel. (787) tel. (787) tel. (787) Radiative Transfer Equation (RTE) P( i ) P reg ( i ) P 0 ( i )   opt(k i ) E ik (  ) Figure 2. Figure 2. Choosing the optimum value  opt(ki) from the set [0, 1). Experimental Results Carbona te Sand Sea Grass (Thalasia) Reef Sea Wate r Spaceborne Multispectral and Hyperspectral Data The data to be analyzed was gathered using Hyperion sensor and IKONOS sensor. Data was calibrated and atmospheric corrected using ACORN. In the case of Hyperion imagery we choose the fifteen most independent bands using the SVDSS feature selection method [2]. Conclusion Future Work References (a) (b) (c) Figure 3. Figure 3. Hyperion imagery (a), classification using the spectral signatures without inversion (b), classification after inversion and regularization (c). Figure 4. Figure 4. Ikonos imagery (a), classification using the spectral signatures without inversion (b), classification after inversion and regularization (c). La Parguera La Parguera is in the southwest coast of Puerto Rico in the municipality of Lajas. This project was partially supported by the Engineering Research Centers Program of the National Science Foundation under Award # EEC The authors want to acknowledge Dr. James Goodman who works at LARSIP, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez for providing the calibrated store signatures. Acknowledgments