Mapping asbestos-cement roofing with the use of APEX hyperspectral airborne imagery: Karpacz area, Poland – a case study

• Authors: Małgorzata Krówczyńska , Ewa Wilk , Piotr Pabjanek , Bogdan Zagajewski , Koen Meuleman

Abstracts

EN

Asbestos and asbestos containing products are harmful to human health, and therefore its use has been legally forbidden in the EU. Since there is no adequate data on the amount of asbestos-cement roofing in Poland, the objective of this study was to map asbestos-cement roofing with the use of hyperspectral APEX data (288 bands at the spatial resolution of 2.7 m) in the Karpacz area (southwest Poland). A field survey constituted the basis for training and verification polygons in the classification process. A SAM classification method was performed with the following classification results: 62% producer’s accuracy, 73% user’s accuracy and an overall accuracy of 95%. The asbestos-cement roofing for buildings may be discriminated with a high classification accuracy with the use of hyperspectral imagery. The vast majority of the classified buildings were characterised by their small area (i.e. residential type buildings), which reduced the overall accuracy of the classification.

Keywords

EN

Asbestos; asbestos containing products; SAM classification; APEX data; asbestos removal process; Poland

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 41-46

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Krówczyńska

• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Department of Geoinformatics, Cartography and Remote Sensing, Warsaw, Poland
• WGS84 Polska Sp. z o.o., Milanówek, Poland

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Ewa Wilk

• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Department of Geoinformatics, Cartography and Remote Sensing, Warsaw, Poland
• WGS84 Polska Sp. z o.o., Milanówek, Poland

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Piotr Pabjanek

• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Department of Geoinformatics, Cartography and Remote Sensing, Warsaw, Poland

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Bogdan Zagajewski

• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Department of Geoinformatics, Cartography and Remote Sensing, Warsaw, Poland

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Koen Meuleman

• VITO - Centre for Remote Sensing and Earth Observation Processes

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Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

1035955