Hyperspectral imagery and urban areas: results of the HYEP project

he HYEP project (ANR HYEP 14-CE22-0016-01 Hyperspectral imagery for Environmental urban Planning - Mobility and Urban Systems Programme - 2014) confirmed the interest of a global approach to the urban environment by remote sensing and in particular by using hyperspectral imaging (HI). The interest of hyperspectral images lies in the range of information provided over wavelengths from 0.4 to 4 μm; they thus provide access to spectral quantities of interest and to chemical or biophysical parameters of the surface. HYEP's objective was to specify this and to propose a panel of methods and treatments taking into account the characteristics of other existing sensors in order to compare their performance. The developments carried out were applied and evaluated on hyperspectral airborne images acquired in Toulouse and Kaunas (Lithuania), also used to synthesize space systems: Sentinel-2, Hypxim/Biodiversity and Pleiades. Among the locks identified were those related to improving the spatial capabilities of the sensors and spatial scale changes, which were partially overcome by fusion and sharpening approaches, which proved to be successful. After a description of our hyperspectral data set acquired over Toulouse, an analysis is conducted on several existing and accessible spectral databases. Then, the chosen methods are presented. They include extraction, fusion and classification methods, which are then applied on our dataset synthetized at different spatial resolution to evaluate the benefits and the complementarity of hyperspectral imagery in comparison with other traditional sensors. Some specific applications are investigated of interest for urban planners: impervious soil map, vegetation species cartography and detection of solar panels. Finally, discussion and perspectives are presented. Le projet HYEP (ANR HYEP 14-CE22-0016-01 HYperspectral imagery for Environmental urban Planning - Programme Mobilité et systèmes urbains - 2014) a permis de confirmer l’intérêt d’une approche globale du milieu urbain par télédétection et notamment en utilisant l’imagerie hyperspectrale (IH). L’intérêt des images hyperspectrales réside dans la gamme d’informations fournies sur des longueurs d’onde de 0,4 à 4 μm ; elles fournissent ainsi un accès aux grandeurs spectrales d'intérêt et aux paramètres chimiques ou biophysiques de la surface. HYEP avait pour objectif de préciser ceci et de proposer un panel de méthodes et de traitements en tenant compte des caractéristiques des