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Article

Mapping Blue and Red Color-Coated Steel Sheet Roof Buildings over China Using Sentinel-2A/B MSIL2A Images

by
Alim Samat
1,2,3,*,
Paolo Gamba
4,
Wei Wang
1,2,3,
Jieqiong Luo
5,
Erzhu Li
6,
Sicong Liu
7,
Peijun Du
8 and
Jilili Abuduwaili
1,2,3
1
State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
2
Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
3
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
4
Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
5
School of Transportation and Civil Engineering, Nantong University, Nantong 226007, China
6
Department of Geographical Information Science, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221008, China
7
College of Surveying and Geoinformatics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200070, China
8
School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Remote Sens. 2022, 14(1), 230; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14010230
Submission received: 17 November 2021 / Revised: 27 December 2021 / Accepted: 30 December 2021 / Published: 5 January 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Google Earth Engine: Cloud-Based Platform for Earth Observation Data and Analysis)
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Abstract

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Accurate and efficiently updated information on color-coated steel sheet (CCSS) roof materials in urban areas is of great significance for understanding the potential impact, challenges, and issues of these materials on urban sustainable development, human health, and the environment. Thanks to the development of Earth observation technologies, remote sensing (RS) provides abundant data to identify and map CCSS materials with different colors in urban areas. However, existing studies are still quite challenging with regards to the data collection and processing costs, particularly in wide geographical areas. Combining free access high-resolution RS data and a cloud computing platform, i.e., Sentinel-2A/B data sets and Google Earth Engine (GEE), this study aims at CCSS material identification and mapping. Specifically, six novel spectral indexes that use Sentinel-2A/B MSIL2A data are proposed for blue and red CCSS material identification, namely the normalized difference blue building index (NDBBI), the normalized difference red building index NDRBI, the enhanced blue building index (EBBI), the enhanced red building index (ERBI), the logical blue building index (LBBI) and the logical red building index (LRBI). These indexes are qualitatively and quantitatively evaluated on a very large number of urban sites all over the P.R. China and compared with the state-of-the-art redness and blueness indexes (RI and BI, respectively). The results demonstrate that the proposed indexes, specifically the LRBI and LBBI, are highly effective in visual evaluation, clearly detecting and discriminating blue and red CCSS covers from other urban materials. Results show that urban areas from the northern parts of P.R. China have larger proportions of blue and red CCSS materials, and areas of blue and red CCSS material buildings are positively correlated with population and urban size at the provincial level across China.

1. Introduction

Over the last few decades, the Earth’s surface has experienced dramatic changes due, among other reasons, to rapid urbanization. This process is expected to continue for the rest of the 21st century, particularly for developing countries in Asia and Africa [1]. Today, more than 55% of the world population lives in towns and cities, which only occupy less than 0.60% of the global land surface, and by 2030 the number of the world urban population will swell to approximately 8.6 billion, more than 70% of the world population [2,3,4,5]. Along with this trend of global urbanization, the global urban area is expected to increase by roughly 40–67% until 2050 relative to the base year of 2013, with a growth ratio of more than 200% by the year 2100 [1,6].
As one of the key elements in the process of development, urbanization has provided more and better living environments for more people worldwide and boosted economic developments, particularly for developing countries [7,8,9,10,11]. However, urbanization is also one of two major global environmental concerns of the 21st century [12,13], mainly because urban expansion has posed a wide range of challenges and issues to the social-economic, ecology, and environment at regional, national and global scales [1,6,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21]. To mitigate potential risks and overcome issues caused by rapid urban expansion, it is of crucial importance to understand the pathways of urban growth. Thereby, numerous works have been documented with the subject of urban land cover or land use [22,23], urban extents [24,25], urban built-up areas [26,27,28], urban impervious surfaces [5,29,30], urban dynamics [20], urban nighttime lights [4,31,32,33], urban energy consumption [34,35], urban growth simulation and modeling [1,6,10,36,37], and so on.
Impacts, challenges, and issues following the trend of urban expansion are not only related to urban population density, urban area size and structure in both horizontal and vertical dimensions, environmental carrying capacity, geography and climatology background, water and land resources, planning and managing policy but they are also related to urban building types, patterns, and materials [38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46]. Hence, urban building extraction, building type identification, and pattern analysis are very important research topics with respect to both aspects of algorithmic and application studies in the field of urban remote sensing (URS) [47,48,49,50,51,52].
Specifically, building materials have significant impacts on urban energy consumption and flux by influencing electromagnetic (absorption, reflectivity, and emissivity) and electrochemistry properties of the built-up structures. They also influence building quality, safety, and serviceability, maintainability, and sustainability [44,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60]. So far, in technical literature, only a few works have focused on building materials identification and building extraction with specific material using remote sensing (RS) imageries, and these works were carried out in small test areas [61,62,63,64]. This is mainly due to the fact that urban building materials have a great variety of types (e.g., woods, tiles, bricks, concrete, plastics, glass, metals, composites, and their combinations) with complex and diverse physicochemical properties and very complex geometrical shapes and structures.
Thanks to the development of Earth observation technologies, now urban building material types can be identified using hyperspectral, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), polarimetric SAR (PolSAR), light detection and ranging (LiDAR), and high or very high-resolution (HR/VHR) multispectral instruments, capable of capturing information about physicochemical and geometrical properties [61,64,65,66]. However, challenging issues still remain open. For instance, spaceborne hyperspectral and LiDAR images have low and mid-spatial resolution and cannot capture detailed geometrical information about urban building materials. Spaceborne and airborne VHR visible and infrared images, as well as airborne LiDAR data, cannot provide sufficient spectral information about physicochemical properties of building materials [67,68,69]. SAR and PolSAR images, especially at high and very high spatial resolutions, suffer from speckle noise, and geometrical distortion effects become serious in areas with tall and dense buildings [70,71,72]. Because of these limitations, jointly using multispectral and hyperspectral images with HR and VHR spatial resolution, LiDAR data with HR and VHR spatial resolution, and multispectral images seem to be a possible solution. Still, these ideas are quite challenging to be implemented in wide geographical areas because of the heterogeneity between data sets and the data collection costs, hampering their usefulness in regional, national and global scale analysis scenarios. Hence, it is worth using more advanced but free accessible data sets on a cloud computing platform for urban building material identification in these scenarios.
As an easily accessible and user-friendly cloud-based platform for planetary-scale geospatial data processing with massive computational capabilities, Google Earth Engine (GEE) has been in the big RS data processing and application spotlight in recent years [73,74]. The current GEE’s open-source data catalog not only includes petabyte scales of over 40 years of RS data but also includes unprecedented volumes of geographic information system (GIS)-based vector data sets, climate, weather, social, demographic, geophysical, and ready-to-use products data layers [75]. Additionally, it provides a library of application programming interfaces (APIs) with a full-featured development environment for JavaScript and Python and an associated web-based interactive development environment (IDE) to interact with users. Owing to these advantages, GEE has led researchers to harness it for various applications, such as water, vegetation, ecosystem and biodiversity, natural hazards, agricultural, hydrology, urban, land cover, and many others [76,77,78,79].
Therefore, in this work, we focus on Sentinel-2A/B images with four bands at 10 m spatial resolution for specific material building identification and mapping over China using the GEE platform to detect color-coated steel sheets (CCSS). The contribution of urbanization to economic growth mainly comes from the construction industry and industrialization process that always have massive demands for construction materials. CCSS is composed of color-painted and galvanized steel plate surfaces with a polystyrene foam plastic sandwich layer [80]. In contrast with traditional roof materials such as wood, tiles, bricks, and concrete, CCSS has the properties of being lightweight, artistic, heat-insulation, soundproof, anti-corrosive, durable, stiff, easy to manufacture, and most importantly, it has a much lower market price. According to the CCSS industry and market search report of China for 2020, there were more than 13000 enterprises that produced more than 12 million tons of CCSS materials in 2019, and the value of the CCSS exchanging market was more than 70 billion RMB [81].
Nowadays, CCSS sheets are commonly found in urban areas, particularly on buildings for warehouses, stations, airport terminals, factories, logistic parks, supermarkets, stadiums, construction sites, vegetable greenhouses, farms, carports, dovecotes, as well as commercial and residential houses (Figure 1). Due to their easiness to manufacture and lower market price, CCSS sheets are mostly used for houses in shantytowns, as well as non-compliance and even illegal rooftop remodeling in downtown areas (Figure 1g). Despite the advanced properties mentioned earlier, CCSS materials may cause issues related to safety, serviceability, maintainability, and sustainability [58,82,83,84].
Additionally, from the eco-city planning and construction, urban and building color planning and design, urban ecological and environmental aesthetics, and bird-friendly urban color environment points of view, massively using CCSS materials in urban buildings is not the best option [7,85,86,87,88]. For instance, CCSS material can significantly impact local surface heat and urban energy consumption and flux by influencing electromagnetic absorption, reflectivity, and emissivity of the buildings. Thus, identifying and locating buildings covered with CCSS is an important task. To date, only a few works have focused on the CCSS material detection, mapping, and spatial pattern analysis in urban areas [89,90].
Generally, CCSS materials can be painted in any color. However, since red mineral pigment is much cheaper than other ones, and blue color has better stability, and both red and blue CCSS materials have better thermal keeping capabilities than other colors. CCSS sheets with these two colors are much more commonly used in the construction industry. Thereby, most of the works of CCSS building identification and locating are focused on the red and blue CCSS material using supervised classification, object-oriented segmentation, and spectral matching methods [65,66,83,89,90]. It should be noted, however, that these somehow conventional approaches are labor intensive, inefficient, and impractical because of the material and urban landscape heterogeneity at large scales. Therefore, there is a great demand for methods that would allow for accurate and efficient up-to-date mapping of CCSS material buildings’ spatial distribution in single urban areas, at regional and even national scales.
In this study, Sentinel-2A/B MSIL2A images are used to develop several spectral indexes to enhance, identify and map blue and red CCSS sheets all over China, whose performance is comprehensively evaluated. Additionally, a detailed correlation between the CCSS sheet total area and the urban population is performed and discussed.

2. Study Area and Materials

2.1. Study Area

The study area in this paper is the whole of P.R. China, which has experienced dramatic land changes due to an extremely rapid urbanization process in the past several decades, and it is currently the world’s most populous country with an uneven process of development and urbanization across the country. Before mapping blue and red CCSS roof buildings, performances of the proposed method need to be proved by enough experiments using both qualitative and quantitative measures. To this aim, we selected 32 test sites all over the world representing a variety of locations, landscapes, city sizes, and urbanization levels to assess the proposed methods. As detailed in Figure 2 and Table 1, a total of 16 sites were selected from 11 provinces and counties across mainland China, 9 sites across Northeast, Central, Western, and Southeast Asia, and finally, 7 sites were selected across Eastern and Southern Africa.

2.2. Materials

Sentinel-2 mission is a constellation of twin polar-orbiting satellites (Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B) developed and operated by European Space Agency (ESA) [91]. Both Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B carry the state-of-the-art multispectral instrument (MSI) sensor that offers spectral bands spanning from the visible (VIS) and the near infrared (NIR) to the short wave infrared (SWIR) at different spatial resolutions at the ground, ranging from 10 to 60 m. By sharing the same sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of ~786 km but separated by 180°, Sentinel-2A/B can provide better than a 5-day revisit of the Earth’s land surface with an equatorial overpass time at approximately 10:30 a.m. All the Sentinel-2 data used in this study are level-2A (L2A) bottom of atmosphere (BOA) corrected reflectance products, which means per-pixel radiometric measurements are provided in surface reflectance with all parameters to transform them into radiance. Only the visual bands of blue (band 2), green (band 3), red (band 4), and the near-infrared (band 8) with 10 m spatial resolution were used in this study. All images of the selected test sites in Table 1 were processed using the Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP, v8.0), which is a free, open-source software program that is distributed by the ESA-ESRIN (Frascati, Rom, Italy) under the GNU General Public License and funded through the ESA Scientific Exploration of Operational Missions (SEOM) Program.
The urban class from the global land cover with fine classification system at 30 m in 2020 product (GCL-FCS30-2020) [92]) and Global Human Settlements from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery using convolutional neural networks (GLS-S2Net-2018) product [93] were selected to discard the areas outside human settlements.

3. Methods

3.1. Spectral Analysis and Normalized Difference Indexes Development

To extract and map blue and red CCSS material buildings in an accurate, fast and unsupervised manner, it is important to analyze and understand the spectral properties of the CCSS materials. To this aim, Figure 3 presents Sentinel-2A average image spectra of blue and red CCSS materials and other land cover types collected around carp fish mountain park at Urumqi City, Xinjiang, China.
According to the graphs in Figure 3, it can be observed that the spectral responses of different CCSS materials are highly variable with respect to both reflectance patterns and magnitudes. For instance, red CCSS material roofs have a nearly flat spectral curve between the wavelength of 443–560 nm and 665–945 nm and have two absorption valleys at the spectral range of red to green (560–565 nm) and water vapor to SWIR (945–1610 nm), which have the potential to distinguish them from other roof types. Compared with the first absorption value, the absorption valley at the spectral range of 945–1610 nm has smoother slopes and overlaps less with the absorption valleys of yellow CCSS roofs, silvery CCSS roofs, bright surfaces, and blue CCSS roofs. Additionally, considering that bands in the spectral range of 560–565 have a higher spatial resolution (10 m) than the bands in the spectral range of 945–1610 (20 m, 60 m), the absorption valley at 560–565 nm has better potential to detect red CCSS materials. Hence, following the simplicity of normalized difference indexes such as the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and the normalized difference water index (NDWI) [94,95], an option would be to define a normalized difference red building index (NDRBI) as follow:
NDRBI = β 4 − β 3 β 4 + β 3
where β 3 and β 4 represent the third (green) and fourth (red) Sentinel 2-A/B spectral bands.
Looking now at the spectral reflectance shown by the square marked blue line, the blue CCSS material has a nearly flat spectral curve between in the wavelength of 560–740 nm and two absorption valleys in the spectral ranges of 490–560 nm and 945–1160 nm, which also may have potential to distinguish blue CCSS material from others. However, the latter absorption valley almost overlaps with the absorption valleys of other bright surfaces, such as silvery red CCSS roofs. In comparison with the spectra of other land cover types, only the slope of the former absorption valley at the spectral range of 490–560 nm shown by blue CCSS material roofs is in an anti-direction. Therefore, the normalized difference blue building index (NDBBI) may be defined as:
NDBBI = β 2 − β 3 β 2 + β 3
where β 2 and β 3 represent the second (blue) and third (green) Sentinel 2-A/B spectral bands.

3.2. Enhanced Blue and Red Building Indexes

Although useful, the normalized indexes proposed above may not be able to provide results that are suitable enough. Indeed, absorption valleys in the 560–665 nm range exist for yellow CCSS materials, bright surfaces, red asphalt roads, and bare lands, and in the 490–560 nm range for snow, ice, and blue asphalt roads. Therefore, NDRBI may also enhance yellow CCSS roofs, bright surfaces, red asphalt roads, and bare lands land cover types in addition to red CCSS roofs, while NDBBI may also enhance snow and ice and blue asphalt roads other than blue CCSS roofs. To partially solve this issue, considering that blue CCSS roof reflectance at 490 nm (blue) is always higher (at least two times) than the reflectance at 560 nm (green) and 665 nm (red), while snow and ice, bare lands and asphalt roads have a flat spectral response in the same range, an enhanced blue building index (EBBI) can be proposed as follows:
EBBI = 2 β 2 − ( β 3 + β 4 ) 2 β 2 + ( β 3 + β 4 )
Similarly, considering that red CCSS roof reflectance at 665 nm (red) is always higher (at least three times) than the reflectance at 490 nm (blue) and 560 nm (green), it has similar and even higher reflectance at 842 nm (NIR), while silvery CCSS roofs, cement roofs, and asphalt roads have flat spectral responses at 560 and 842 nm, an enhanced red building index (ERBI) can be proposed as follows:
ERBI = 3 β 4 − ( β 2 + β 3 + β 8 ) 3 β 4 + ( β 2 + β 3 + β 8 )
where, in addition to the bands mentioned in the previous formulas, β 8 represents the eighth (NIR) Sentinel 2-A/B spectral band.

3.3. Logical Blue and Red Building Indexes

The two previously presented sets of indexes assume already values in a limited range but need to be thresholded to eventually detect red or blue CCSS roofs. The selection of a threshold is always a complex task, especially when considering a very large geographical area. Therefore, a third set of indexes is proposed here, which are already and inherently binary values. To this aim, looking again at the reflectance spectra shown in Figure 3, it can be noted that only the blue CCSS material has a U-shape spectral reflectance pattern considering Sentinel 2 bands n. 2 (blue), 3 (green), 4 (red) and 8 (NIR) and that the reflectance values for bands n. 2 and 8 are always larger than the values for bands 3 and 4. Based on this reflectance pattern, a logical blue building index (LBBI) can be defined as follows:
LBBI = { 1 , i f   β 2 > β 3   a n d   β 2 > β 4   a n d   β 8 > β 3   a n d   β 8 > β 4 0
Considering instead the spectral reflectance pattern for the red CCSS material, it may be considered as a ladder-shaped spectral reflectance pattern considering again Sentinel 2 bands No. 2, 3, 4, and 8, and that the reflectance values for bands NO. 2 and 3 are always smaller than the values for bands n. 4 and 8. Unfortunately, this kind of spectral feature can be observed for other land cover types, too, such as yellow CCSS roofs, bright surfaces, bare land, and cement roofs. However, the reflectance values of red CCSS roofs for bands NO. 4 and 8 (>3000) are at least three times larger than the corresponding values for bands NO. 2 and 3 (≥1000), while for yellow CCSS roofs, bright surfaces, bare land, and cement roofs, the same ration is between one and one point five times. Accordingly, even for red CCSS roofs, a novel logical red building index (LRBI) can be defined as follows:
LRBI = { 1 ,   i f   β 4 > 2 ∗ β 2   a n d   β 4 > 2 ∗ β 3   a n d   β 8 > 2 ∗ β 2   a n d   β 8 > 2 ∗ β 3 0

3.4. Blue and Red Building Extraction Method

In the previous Section 3.1, Section 3.2, and Section 3.3, several indexes for blue and red CCSS material extraction have been proposed. To avoid as much as possible limitations due to cloud coverage, only Sentinel 2-A/B MSIL2A images with less than 10% cloud coverage were collected from Copernicus Open Access Hub. Moreover, as mentioned above, to reduce false positives, the GHS-S2Net-2018 map and the urban class from GLC-FCS30-2020 were fused to mask out anything outside the urban areas. The technical steps for blue and red building extraction are presented in Figure 4:
  • Step 1: Collect Sentinel-2 A/B S2MSIL2A images with cloud cover ratio lower than 10% that coverage for the whole of China from Copernicus Open Access Hub for 2020;
  • Step 2: Obtain the preliminary maps for blue and red CCSS buildings by applying Equations (5) and (6) on the median images of S2MSIL2A image collections;
  • Step 3: Produce the urban area map for 2020 by fusion of GHS-S2Net-2018 and GLC-FC30-2020 products;
  • Step 4: Obtain the refined maps for blue and red CCSS buildings by masking the preliminary maps produced by step 2 with the urban area map produced by step 3;
  • Step 5: Evaluate the performance of the proposed methods on the city sites that selected over different countries with various landscapes;
  • Step 6: Analysis for distributions and patterns of blue and red CCSS buildings for China in 2020.
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Figure 4. Technical steps for blue and red CCSS buildings extraction.
Figure 4. Technical steps for blue and red CCSS buildings extraction.
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3.5. Experimental Setups

To comparatively evaluate and show the performance of the proposed indexes (NDBBI, NDRBI, EBBI, and ERBI), two established indexes, the redness index (RI) and the blueness index (BI), originally developed for soil identification and classification based on soil color Landsat TM data [96], were employed. RI and BI are defined as:
RI = β 4 β 2 + β 3 + β 4
BI = β 2 β 2 + β 3 + β 4
where β 2 , β 3 , and β 4 represent the second (blue), third (green), and fourth (red) Sentinel 2-A/B spectral bands.
Additionally, a one-class support vector machine (OCSVM) classifier, with radial basis function (RBF) kernel from the library for SVM (LIBSVM) toolbox provided by Chang, C.C. and Lin [97] was also used to extract maps to be compared with those by the proposed indexes. For the free parameters of OCSVM, a grid (10 × 10) searching criterion and 3-fold cross-validation technique was adopted by setting the searching range for λ to (0.01–10) and the cost factor range to (1–1000). As evaluation metrics, overall accuracy (OA), Kappa statistic, omission error (OE), and commission error (CE) were selected. All reference maps used in the following experiments were collected by photo-interpretation of RGB (R = band 4, G = band 3, B = band 2) composites of Sentinel 2-A/B images and further referring to the high-resolution optical images in Google Earth.

4. Results and Discussion

4.1. Visual Evaluation of NDBSI, NDRSI, EBBI, and ERBI Indexes

To show the performance of NDBBI, NDRBI, EBBI, and ERBI indexes for blue and red CCSS roof enhancement, nine distinct sites with different landscape heterogeneity were selected from the Sentinel 2-A image captured on 15 October 2020 over Urumqi. Figure 5 shows the NDBBI, NDRBI, EBBI, and ERBI images for these test sites.
By visually comparing with RGB reference images in the first column and RI and BI images in the sixth and seventh column of Figure 5, most of the blue and red CCSS roof buildings are highlighted by the proposed NDBBI, NDRBI, EBBI, and ERBI. More in detail, while blue CCSS roofs, blue painted asphalt roads as shown by Figure 1b and highlighted with a green rectangle at the bottom of images in the fifth row, construction sites covered by blue nets highlighted with a green rectangle at the right edge of images in the seventh row, snow coverage and hill shadows as shown by the RGB image in the eighth row, are similarly highlighted by NDBBI due to the spectral similarity, and even some water (the Yanerwo lake) is highlighted by BI as shown by the sixth image in firth row, the contrast between blue CCSS roofs and the backgrounds is much higher in the EBBI images in column four. Unfortunately, due to the high and almost flat spectral reflectance at visible spectral bands, some silvery roof buildings and snow patches such as the oil storage tanks highlighted by a pink rectangle in the right images of the third row, the Olympic Center building highlighted by a pink rectangle in the upper-left corner of the images of the fifth row, and the high-speed rail station highlighted by s pink rectangle at the bottom of the images of the seventh row, are also highlighted by EBBI.
In contrast with the results shown by NDRBI and RI images in the third and seventh columns, the improvements by ERBI shown by the images in the fifth column of Figure 5 are clear. For example, NDRBI and IR both enhance red-painted asphalt roads in Yanerwo Park and Liyushan Park, marked by pink rectangles at the bottom center of the images in the first and fifth rows, as well as the plastic racetracks marked by pink rectangles at the middle right of the images in the fourth row, at the upper left of the images in the fifth row, and at the bottom right of the images in the eighth row. They also wrongly enhance rust-colored hill surfaces between two lakes, marked by a pink rectangle at the left edge of the images in the sixth row. Instead, ERBI enhances only the red CCSS roofs, but it has some limitations in distinguishing silver and yellow CCSS roofs, such as in the areas marked by a pink rectangle at the right edge of the images in the third row and by a green rectangle in the upper-left edge of the images in the eighth row of Figure 5.

4.2. Results of LBBI and LRBI

To visually and quantitatively compare the performance of NDBBI, NDRBI, EBBI, ERBI, LBBI, and LRBI indexes for blue and red CCSS material roof buildings extraction, five distinct sites with different landscape heterogeneity were selected within the city of Urumqi. The mean-standard deviation plane method [98] was selected to produce binary results from NDBBI, NDRBI, EBBI, and ERBI indexes. Figure 6 shows the detected results for the considered test sites, while Table 2 presents the evaluation metrics.
Based on these results, it is notable that blue and red CCSS roofs can be detected by means of the mean-standard deviation plane method-based segmentation applied to NDBBI and NDRBI, but with a very high false-positive detection rate, particularly from the brown and rust-colored surfaces. For instance, the detection accuracy for NDBBI stays in the range of 92.88–98.57% with an average of 96.99% for OA, in the range of 21.38–66.23% with an average of 48.49% for CE, while the detection accuracy for NDRBI stays in the range of 92.01–96.99% with an average of 94.34% for OA and in the range of 50.42–90.62% with an average of 75.79% for CE, as shown by the numbers in Table 2. The results suing EBBI and ERBI are instead more accurate, but the best results are those by LBBI and LRBI, both visually and quantitatively. For instance, while brown and rust-colored hill surfaces in the first, second, third, and fifth test sites are successfully discarded by the analysis using ERBI, bright buildings such as oil storage tanks and silvery material roof buildings are still detected, as shown by the buildings marked with pink rectangles in the third column of Figure 6. On the contrary, only the blue nest-covered surfaces were detected as blue CCSS material by LBBI index, as marked by the green rectangle in the fourth image of the fifth row in the same figure.
Figure 7 and Figure 8 present blue and red CCSS roof building detection results using LBBI, LRBI, and OCSVM for the sites listed in Table 1, while Table 3 shows the detection accuracy metrics, i.e., OA, Kappa, OE, and CE values.
By visually comparing the results shown in Figure 7 for the 16 sites in China and in Figure 8 for another 16 sites in other countries, and looking at the accuracy evaluation values in Table 2, it can be concluded that LBBI and LRBI are highly effective for blue and red CCSS roof building detection. For instance, the detection accuracy for LBBI stays in the range of 97.22–99.88% with an average of 98.98% for OA, in the range of 0.08–22.26% with an average of 5.93% for CE, in the range of 6.30–45.32% with an average of 21.52% for OE. LRBI, instead, reaches detection accuracy with OA values larger than 98.91% with an average of 99.79%, CE values in the range of 1.43–34.10% with an average of 13.01%, OE values in the range of 0.10–37.90% with an average of 10.82% for the 32 selected test sites. The high effectiveness of the proposed LBBI and LRBI can be further checked by comparing the average and standard deviation values with the accuracy assessment values by OCSVM for blue (OCSVM-BB) and red (OCSVM-RB) CCSS roof extraction, shown in the last two rows of Table 3. Considering the detection accuracy values for blue CCSS roofs as an example, both the average (CE = 12.00%, OE = 23.13%) and standard deviation (CE = 5.27%, OE = 15.93%) values for CE and OE by OCSVM-BB are larger than the average (CE = 5.93%, OE = 21.52%) and standard deviation (CE = 4.43%, OE = 11.69%) values for the same quantities using LBBI. Additionally, in comparison with NDBBI, NDRBI, EBBI, and ERBI, LBBI and LRBI are more effective in discriminating blue and red CCSS roofs from silvery CCSS ones, very bright buildings, as well as rust-colored surfaces. For instance, both blue and red CCSS roofs are clearly distinguished from oil storage tanks, rust-colored surfaces, and very bright buildings by LBBI and LRBI for test site (3) in Figure 7 in comparison with the images in the third row of Figure 5, for test site (9) in Figure 7 and for sites (26) and (27) in Figure 8 with respect to the images in the sixth row of Figure 5, and finally for test site (9) in Figure 7 and test site (25) in Figure 8 with respect to the fifth and sixth rows of Figure 5.
It is important to note at this point that, despite they are simple and intuitive, and they have a physical meaning, spectral indexes extracted from satellite data have performances that depend on the sensing conditions, and specifically by the status of the atmosphere, the type of landscape, and the season of acquisition. Still, we expect that LBBI and LRBI indexes are robust enough to cope with these issues. To this aim, detection results for several test sites using Sentinel 2-A and Sentinel 2-B MSIL2A images in different seasons and these indexes are shown in Figure 9. These results show that the worst detection results are always shown by images in the winter season where the land surface is covered by snow (see the images in the first column for sites (1) and (4)) or the vegetated mountain areas, presumably covered by fog (see the first column for site 20). Moreover, the LRBI index for red CCSS roof detection is apparently more robust than the LBBI index for blue CCSS roof detection in different landscapes because, as expected, false positives due to snow and fog mostly appear in the blue CCSS detection results.
According to these results, only Sentinel 2-A/B MSIL2A images collected between April and October are used in the following extraction and the subsequent analyses.

4.3. Distributions and Patterns of Blue and Red CCSS Buildings for China

Exploiting the technique described in Figure 4 and using the logical indexes, blue and red CCSS roofs were extracted for the urban areas across the whole of China. Figure 10 presents bar charts with dashed lines for the area in square meters (m2) and the percentage of blue and red CCSS roof buildings with respect to urban extents at the provincial level in 2020. As mentioned, a large amount of CCSS materials can be usually found on buildings for warehouses, stations, airport terminals, factories, supermarkets, logistic parks, stadiums, and construction sites. Their distribution might thus be connected to socio-economic factors such as population, urbanization, and region development. Hence, in Figure 11, we present maps, colored with five levels, showing the total area of blue and red CCSS roofs and their relation to population (number of inhabitants), urban size (m2), and GDP (RMB) at the provincial level in the same year.
According to the results in Figure 10, the top three areas for blue CCSS roofs are the provinces of Shandong (1.99 × 109 m2), Henan (1.52 × 109 m2), and Jiangsu (1.45 × 109 m2), which account in total for approximately 30% of the blue CCSS covered buildings in China. The top three areas for red CCSS roofs are instead the provinces of Hebei (1.38 × 108 m2), Heilongjiang (9.46 × 108 m2), and Inner Mongolia (7.55 × 109 m2), which together account for approximately 38% of this type of roof in China. By comparing the total areas of blue and red roofs, it can be seen that red roofs are much less common than blue ones. Moreover, in accordance with the results in Figure 10 and Figure 11, blue CCSS roofs are more common in the central and northern provinces, such as Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia, than in the western and southwestern provinces, such as Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xizang. On the contrary, red CCSS roofs are more common in northern provinces. This is because the red CCSS roofs have better thermal capacity than blue roofs; hence, they have a higher use rate in provinces with a colder climate.
As a final analysis, the total area of blue and red CCSS roofs was used to investigate its correlation with a few socio-economic factors. In line with the previous results, and as shown in Figure 11d–f, the northern provinces of Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia have the highest per capita area of both blue and red CCSS roofs, while the lowest per capita area of these roofs are shown by the southern administrative areas of Guangdong, Hongkong, Fujian, and Taiwan. As for the proportion of the area of blue and red CCSS roofs to the urban extent, the largest ratio (between 6% and 7%) is held by the southwestern provinces of Sichuan, Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, and Guizhou, while the lowest percentage (between 2% and 3%) refers to the Fujian province on the southeast coast. Finally, according to the graded maps shown in Figure 11e, northern provinces such as Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, and Heilongjiang show the lowest value of GDP per area of blue and red CCSS roofs, while the highest values pertain to Taiwan, Hongkong, Fujian, Shanghai, and Beijing. Further comparing the linear logistic regression charts in the upper-middle parts of Figure 11d–f, we can see that the total area of blue and red CCSS roofs has a weakly significant positive correlation with the population numbers (R2 = 0.5445), a strong correlation with the urban areas’ size (R2 = 0.9063) and a not enough significant correlation with the GDP (R2 = 0.316).

5. Conclusions

In this study, six novel spectral indexes, namely the NDBBI, NDRBI, EBBI, ERBI, LBBI, and LRBI indexes, are proposed for the recognition of blue and red color-coated steel sheet (CCSS) materials. They exploit Sentinel-2A/B MSIL2A data to enhance, detect and extract CCSS roofs in urban areas. NDBBI, NDRBI, EBBI, and ERBI were evaluated in several dense urban area sites by visually comparing them with the existing indexes RI and BI, while LBBI and LRBI were evaluated in 32 urban sites in Asia and Africa by comparing their roof detection results with those by a supervised classification technique, namely OCSVM. Finally, distribution patterns of CCSS roofs, as well as their total, were analyzed area. Relations to a few socio-economic factors at the province level for the whole of China were explored, too. The results demonstrate that NDBBI, NDRBI, EBBI, and ERBI are capable of visually enhancing the blue and red CCSS roofs and that LBBI and LRBI are capable of effectively extracting them.
Moreover, blue and red CCSS roofs are mainly distributed in the northern provinces of China and have an obvious positive correlation with population numbers and the urban area size. Future works will explore how to extend NDBBI, NDRBI, EBBI, ERBI, LBBI, and LRBI for the Landsat 8 operational land imager (OLI) and the Chinese Gaofen and Ziyuan sensors. Additionally, multi-temporal patterns of blue and red CCSS roofs are expected to provide in the future more interesting relations with other socio-economic factors.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, A.S. and P.G.; methodology, A.S.; validation, W.W., J.L. and E.L.; formal analysis, A.S. and P.G.; investigation, A.S.; data curation, W.W; writing—original draft preparation, A.S.; writing—review and editing, A.S. and P.G; visualization, A.S.; supervision, S.L., P.D. and J.A.; funding acquisition, A.S. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 42071424), the Youth Innovation Promotion Association Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.2018476).

Institutional Review Board Statement

Not applicable.

Informed Consent Statement

Not applicable.

Data Availability Statement

GCL-FCS30-2020 product used in this work is available at: https://data.casearth.cn/sdo/detail/5d904b7a0887164a5c7fbfa0 (13 January 2021); GLS-S2Net-2018 product used in this work is available at: https://code.earthengine.google.com/6a1457205bd295a44902a6c2eb266204? hideCode=true (26 March 2021); provincial-level population and GDP income data used in this work are available from the National Bureau of Statistics at http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/ndsj/ (25 April 2021).

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Liu Liangyun from the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences for providing the global land cover with fine classification system at 30 m in 2020 product (GCL-FCS30-2020). We also would like to thank Christina Corbane from the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) for providing Global Human Settlements from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery using convolutional neural networks (GLS-S2Net-2018) product used in this study.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. WorldView-3 RGB image captured on 22 July 2020 and ground photos of blue and red materials (a–j) around Liyushan Park at Urumqi City, Xinjiang, China.
Figure 1. WorldView-3 RGB image captured on 22 July 2020 and ground photos of blue and red materials (a–j) around Liyushan Park at Urumqi City, Xinjiang, China.
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Figure 2. Study area and the distribution of the cities used as test sites over China.
Figure 2. Study area and the distribution of the cities used as test sites over China.
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Figure 3. Sentinel 2-A MSIL2A average image spectra of CCSS materials and other land cover types collected from upper half (a) and lower half (b) parts of Figure 1.
Figure 3. Sentinel 2-A MSIL2A average image spectra of CCSS materials and other land cover types collected from upper half (a) and lower half (b) parts of Figure 1.
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Figure 5. RGB images (column 1), NDBBI (column 2), NDRBI (column 3), EBBI (column 4), ERBI (column 5), BI (column 6) and RI (column 7) for total 9 test sites from Urumqi City. (Red numbers at the lower-left corner of RGB images represent the row number).
Figure 5. RGB images (column 1), NDBBI (column 2), NDRBI (column 3), EBBI (column 4), ERBI (column 5), BI (column 6) and RI (column 7) for total 9 test sites from Urumqi City. (Red numbers at the lower-left corner of RGB images represent the row number).
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Figure 6. RGB images (column 1), mean-standard deviation plane method results using NDBBI-NDRBI (column 2), EBBI-ERBI (column 3), LBBI-LRBI (column 4), to be compared with the ground truth (column 5) for 5 test sites in the city of Urumqi (row numbers are included in red at the lower-left corner of the RGB images for an easier reference in the text).
Figure 6. RGB images (column 1), mean-standard deviation plane method results using NDBBI-NDRBI (column 2), EBBI-ERBI (column 3), LBBI-LRBI (column 4), to be compared with the ground truth (column 5) for 5 test sites in the city of Urumqi (row numbers are included in red at the lower-left corner of the RGB images for an easier reference in the text).
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Figure 7. RGB images (columns 1, 5), detected results from LBBI and LRBI (column 2, 6), OCSVM (column 3, 7), and ground truths (column 4, 8) for 16 test sites from China (red numbers at the lower-left corner correspond to site numbers in Table 1, blue and red colors represent the detected blue and red buildings, respectively).
Figure 7. RGB images (columns 1, 5), detected results from LBBI and LRBI (column 2, 6), OCSVM (column 3, 7), and ground truths (column 4, 8) for 16 test sites from China (red numbers at the lower-left corner correspond to site numbers in Table 1, blue and red colors represent the detected blue and red buildings, respectively).
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Figure 8. RGB images (columns 1, 5), detected results using LBBI and LRBI (columns 2, 6), OCSVM (columns 3, 7), and ground truths (columns 4, 8) for 16 test sites from Asia and Africa (red numbers at the lower-left corner correspond to the site number in Table 1, blue and red colors represent the detected blue and red buildings, respectively).
Figure 8. RGB images (columns 1, 5), detected results using LBBI and LRBI (columns 2, 6), OCSVM (columns 3, 7), and ground truths (columns 4, 8) for 16 test sites from Asia and Africa (red numbers at the lower-left corner correspond to the site number in Table 1, blue and red colors represent the detected blue and red buildings, respectively).
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Figure 9. RGB images (columns 1, 3, 5 and 7) and detected results by LBBI and LRBI (columns 2, 4, 6 and 8) using Sentinel-2A (rows 1, 3 and 5) and Sentinel-2B (rows 2, 4 and 6) on four seasons (red numbers at the lower-left corner correspond to site numbers in Table 1, red numbers at the lower right corner represent the sensing day).
Figure 9. RGB images (columns 1, 3, 5 and 7) and detected results by LBBI and LRBI (columns 2, 4, 6 and 8) using Sentinel-2A (rows 1, 3 and 5) and Sentinel-2B (rows 2, 4 and 6) on four seasons (red numbers at the lower-left corner correspond to site numbers in Table 1, red numbers at the lower right corner represent the sensing day).
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Figure 10. Area in square meters (m2) and proportion in percentage of blue (a) and red (b) CCSS roof buildings for provincial-level administrative areas of China in 2020.
Figure 10. Area in square meters (m2) and proportion in percentage of blue (a) and red (b) CCSS roof buildings for provincial-level administrative areas of China in 2020.
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Figure 11. Graded maps for areas of blue (a), red (b), and blue plus red (c) CCSS roof buildings and their relations to population (d), urban size (e), and GDP (f) for provincial-level administrative areas of China in 2020.
Figure 11. Graded maps for areas of blue (a), red (b), and blue plus red (c) CCSS roof buildings and their relations to population (d), urban size (e), and GDP (f) for provincial-level administrative areas of China in 2020.
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Table 1. Detailed information for the selected test sites.
Table 1. Detailed information for the selected test sites.
Site No.CountryCity NameScene Center LocationSpacecraft NameOrbit
Number		Sensing Time
LatitudeLongitude
1ChinaUrumqi43°43′24″87°35′20″Sentinel-2A192020-10-15T08:04:29
2ChinaUrumqi43°55′2″87°21′60″Sentinel-2A192020-10-15T08:04:29
3ChinaUrumqi43°50′25″87°18′17″Sentinel-2A192020-10-15T08:04:29
4ChinaUrumqi43°43′57″87°22′12″Sentinel-2A192020-10-15T08:04:29
5ChinaChuzhou32°18′57″118°23′10″Sentinel-2A1322019-09-19T08:23:30
6ChinaHaerbin45°37′12″126°37′14″Sentinel-2A892020-10-20T05:26:23
7ChinaHefei31°41′49″117°11′33″Sentinel-2A1322020-10-23T05:38:54
8ChinaTianjin39°21′8″117°43′40″Sentinel-2B322020-09-01T05:56:11
9ChinaTianjin39°16′49″117°49′24″Sentinel-2B322020-09-01T05:56:11
10ChinaXining36°41′43″101°44′56″Sentinel-2A42020-04-27T08:09:55
11ChinaChangchun43°54′2″125°26′42″Sentinel-2A892020-10-20T05:26:23
12ChinaYinchuan38°27′33″106°6′32″Sentinel-2A1042020-05-14T08:36:42
13ChinaShihezi44°25′56″86°5′14″Sentinel-2B192020-07-22T09:30:27
14ChinaShenyang41°57′2″123°32′56″Sentinel-2B892020-06-07T05:18:53
15ChinaShenyang41°45′46″123°14′23″Sentinel-2B892020-06-07T05:18:53
16ChinaShijiazhuang38°4′29″114°2′10″Sentinel-2A752020-09-19T06:06:33
17IranTehran35°27′41″51°21′46″Sentinel-2B62020-09-19T09:56:38
18IranCaspian Industral Twon36°11′9″50°16′47″Sentinel-2A62020-10-24T09:47:55
19KazakhstanNursurtan51°10′17″71°31′6″Sentinel-2A342020-10-16T08:53:32
20South KoreaPusan128°51′22″35°05′45″Sentinel-2A1032020-04-24T02:07:01
21South KoreaInchon126°37′23″37°32′52″Sentinel-2A32020-10-24T04:59:15
22MaynmaerYangon96°17′28″16°50′17″Sentinel-2A42020-12-13T04:01:51
23MalaysiaKuala Lumpur2°57′24″101°19′37″Sentinel-2A182020-02-28T07:41:37
24CambodiaPhnom Penh11°27′53″104°54′15″Sentinel-2A1182019-12-07T07:19:12
25VietnamHo Chi Minh City106°28′43″10°46′44″Sentinel-2A1182020-01-21T03:20:39
26South AfricaPretoria−25°49′15″28°11′41″Sentinel-2A1352020-10-23T10:15:14
27RwandaKigali−1°57′3.85″30°9′27.27″Sentinel-2A782019-09-15T08:06:11
28LesothoMaseru−29°19′48.12″27°28′3″Sentinel-2A1352020-09-13T10:23:18
29ZimbabweHarare−17°50′12.58″27°28′2.74″Sentinel-2A1352020-10-28T07:50:29
30KenyaNairobi−1°20′7″36°53′12″Sentinel-2B922020-10-05T10:20:29
31EthiopiaAddis Ababa8°46′1″38°55′42″Sentinel-2B922020-01-19T10:14:10
32UgandaKampala0°21′21″32°49′23″Sentinel-2A352019-12-31T10:42:04
Table
Table 2. Detection accuracy metrics for mean-standard deviation plane method results using NDBBI, NDRBI, EBBI and ERIB, LBBI, and LRBI for 5 sites correspond to Figure 6.
Table 2. Detection accuracy metrics for mean-standard deviation plane method results using NDBBI, NDRBI, EBBI and ERIB, LBBI, and LRBI for 5 sites correspond to Figure 6.
IndexesNDBBINDRBIEBBIERBILBBILRBI
Evaluation
Metrics		OA (%)KappaCE (%)OE (%)OA (%)KappaCE (%)OE (%)OA (%)KappaCE (%)OE (%)OA (%)KappaCE (%)OE (%)OA (%)KappaCE (%)OE (%)OA (%)KappaCE (%)OE (%)
198.010.6845.704.1094.880.1690.620.4798.220.6942.1410.4897.640.2982.547.9898.350.724.5340.8499.800.8214.4520.60
298.520.8721.381.1492.010.2286.390.0097.820.7615.4528.3397.600.4567.7817.7399.570.961.066.3099.920.973.503.00
398.570.5658.7111.9193.890.3676.280.0797.310.3079.0443.0397.140.4563.9935.1699.190.6911.2542.9499.250.8020.6918.96
496.990.6550.420.0496.990.6550.420.0498.710.8129.433.2999.620.3971.6135.1898.120.750.0838.8699.940.8414.9817.14
592.880.4866.230.6793.950.3875.260.3897.380.7040.5511.4597.230.5459.3415.4297.210.7143.232.0498.930.7123.6432.88
Average96.990.6548.493.5794.340.3575.790.1997.890.6541.3219.3297.850.4269.0522.2998.490.7712.0326.2099.570.8315.4518.52
Standard deviation2.390.1517.074.911.810.1915.620.220.590.2023.6416.131.020.098.8012.290.930.1117.9820.210.450.097.7210.65
Table
Table 3. Detection accuracy metrics for LBBI, LRBI, and OCSVM on considered test sites.
Table 3. Detection accuracy metrics for LBBI, LRBI, and OCSVM on considered test sites.
MethodsLBBILRBIOCSVM-BBOCSVM-RB
Evaluation MetricsOA (%)KappaCE (%)OE (%)OA (%)KappaCE (%)OE (%)OA (%)KappaCE (%)OE (%)OA (%)KappaCE (%)OE (%)
Site No.198.350.724.5340.8499.800.8214.4520.6099.130.8015.7822.7699.860.868.4518.61
299.570.961.066.3099.920.973.503.0098.990.908.169.9599.680.869.5217.77
399.190.6911.2542.9499.250.8020.6918.9699.670.919.408.0399.540.749.9337.04
498.120.750.0838.8699.940.8414.9817.1499.410.909.9010.0999.940.818.9126.71
598.590.876.1917.2399.870.938.954.5598.570.857.9319.1799.890.942.459.60
699.060.912.0313.5799.920.962.924.8698.010.8015.2323.0699.770.8913.868.33
799.650.951.647.9599.990.991.430.1099.440.925.9910.2499.950.964.672.49
898.260.8112.0723.8799.520.8317.0717.1197.940.7419.7429.5999.470.7914.0025.72
999.050.765.8035.4599.870.8416.6414.4199.320.758.4335.3499.880.843.3825.62
1098.150.7522.2626.1799.950.9210.844.3998.120.7221.5432.0599.960.931.8211.86
1199.160.930.7111.1799.950.932.1211.1999.110.936.697.3099.960.942.899.25
1298.740.907.7710.1799.960.9111.516.1098.550.899.8911.2199.970.920.9413.42
1398.840.837.9223.6699.950.982.851.1798.400.7221.2231.8299.710.867.8418.80
1499.030.889.7212.3198.910.9016.460.4199.510.963.004.6699.240.916.4311.54
1597.220.883.9916.2299.890.8722.121.3698.060.917.887.8599.910.892.5618.23
1698.250.856.0820.4399.700.8517.1412.6498.630.878.8515.4899.770.889.7413.02
1799.050.858.9619.7999.390.8421.298.0999.160.8512.3016.1199.510.8810.3012.70
1899.880.962.224.9299.910.973.622.1799.820.943.986.9299.860.952.536.50
1999.640.794.3732.6699.740.8117.5719.8299.370.2821.1483.0699.350.1217.9893.39
2097.410.858.0618.1699.480.7634.1010.2797.280.8311.9518.8099.580.8214.9520.17
2198.890.771.5435.6299.970.944.986.6099.430.849.2920.4899.930.861.6723.38
2298.970.891.8517.6799.890.9212.133.8698.180.7816.7425.5099.850.896.8913.94
2399.310.833.2826.1099.910.8222.1214.2199.460.8411.5018.7899.930.867.7320.28
2499.170.695.5645.3299.930.928.057.2999.470.7020.0837.6999.930.924.1411.46
2597.950.876.4215.8799.480.7733.707.3397.970.879.8014.5799.660.8714.4010.31
2699.910.787.3833.0799.860.8812.5810.9599.840.8610.6816.0299.910.6513.5047.97
2799.840.885.1418.0399.750.833.5027.4299.800.8210.7123.3899.710.7313.6236.09
2899.820.899.8611.5899.880.747.8037.9099.550.669.9748.1099.910.6911.1743.39
2999.790.802.4732.1999.850.808.8127.8799.830.7711.4031.2099.890.817.4827.34
3099.190.8710.6215.3099.850.8719.754.8499.050.8414.2317.5699.810.8410.0221.40
3199.440.934.368.0499.950.8910.4710.9898.100.738.7737.5399.860.6528.8739.83
3299.860.944.417.1499.930.8912.338.7099.250.6321.8646.0299.870.779.8732.45
Average98.980.855.9321.5299.790.8813.0110.8298.950.8112.0023.1399.780.828.8322.77
Standard deviation0.720.084.4311.690.250.078.408.920.700.135.2715.930.190.155.8617.13
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