scholarly journals ANÁLISE ESPACIAL DA VEGETAÇÃO NATIVA EM ÁREAS DE PRESERVAÇÃO PERMANENTE E DE RESERVA LEGAL E SUAS IMPLICAÇÕES LEGAIS, NA BACIA DO RIO BURANHÉM, NOS ESTADOS DE MINAS GERAIS E BAHIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (84) ◽  
pp. 200-214
Author(s):  
Samuel Dias Santos ◽  
Allívia Rouse Carregosa Rabbani ◽  
Leonardo Thompson Da Silva ◽  
Maria Otávia Silva Crepaldi
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A legislação ambiental brasileira estabelece restrições de uso em determinadas áreas nos imóveis rurais, no intuito de proteger espaços relevantes para a conservação das espécies e dos recursos naturais. Neste aspecto, o geoprocessamento vem se tornando uma ferramenta essencial no monitoramento e fiscalização em áreas cuja vegetação nativa deve ser mantida. O objetivo deste estudo consistiu em identificar as Áreas de Preservação Permanente (APPs) e de Reserva Legal (RL) situadas na bacia do rio Buranhém, nos estados de Minas Gerais e Bahia, e verificar se estas áreas atendem ao previsto na legislação brasileira ou se há conflitos de uso da terra. Para o mapeamento da vegetação e das classes de APPs foram utilizadas imagens do satélite Sentinel-2, o modelo digital de elevação (MDE) do ALOS PALSAR, e o programa gratuito QGIS. Foi constatado que em 74,7% das APPs e 41,8% das áreas de Reserva Legal não possuem cobertura vegetal predominantemente nativa, o que caracteriza um conflito legal de uso dessas áreas. Portanto, para que as propriedades rurais se regularizem é necessário a recuperação destas áreas que não estão em conformidade com a legislação vigente.

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest William Mauya ◽  
Joni Koskinen ◽  
Katri Tegel ◽  
Jarno Hämäläinen ◽  
Tuomo Kauranne ◽  
...  

Remotely sensed assisted forest inventory has emerged in the past decade as a robust and cost efficient method for generating accurate information on forest biophysical parameters. The launching and public access of ALOS PALSAR-2, Sentinel-1 (SAR), and Sentinel-2 together with the associated open-source software, has further increased the opportunity for application of remotely sensed data in forest inventories. In this study, we evaluated the ability of ALOS PALSAR-2, Sentinel-1 (SAR) and Sentinel-2 and their combinations to predict growing stock volume in small-scale forest plantations of Tanzania. The effects of two variable extraction approaches (i.e., centroid and weighted mean), seasonality (i.e., rainy and dry), and tree species on the prediction accuracy of growing stock volume when using each of the three remotely sensed data were also investigated. Statistical models relating growing stock volume and remotely sensed predictor variables at the plot-level were fitted using multiple linear regression. The models were evaluated using the k-fold cross validation and judged based on the relative root mean square error values (RMSEr). The results showed that: Sentinel-2 (RMSEr = 42.03% and pseudo − R2 = 0.63) and the combination of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 (RMSEr = 46.98% and pseudo − R2 = 0.52), had better performance in predicting growing stock volume, as compared to Sentinel-1 (RMSEr = 59.48% and pseudo − R2 = 0.18) alone. Models fitted with variables extracted from the weighted mean approach, turned out to have relatively lower RMSEr % values, as compared to centroid approaches. Sentinel-2 rainy season based models had slightly smaller RMSEr values, as compared to dry season based models. Dense time series (i.e., annual) data resulted to the models with relatively lower RMSEr values, as compared to seasonal based models when using variables extracted from the weighted mean approach. For the centroid approach there was no notable difference between the models fitted using dense time series versus rain season based predictor variables. Stratifications based on tree species resulted into lower RMSEr values for Pinus patula tree species, as compared to other tree species. Finally, our study concluded that combination of Sentinel-1&2 as well as the use Sentinel-2 alone can be considered for remote-sensing assisted forest inventory in the small-scale plantation forests of Tanzania. Further studies on the effect of field plot size, stratification and statistical methods on the prediction accuracy are recommended.


Author(s):  
N. Tavasoli ◽  
H. Arefi ◽  
S. Samiei-Esfahany ◽  
Q. Ronoud

Abstract. The estimation of biomass has been highly regarded for assessing carbon sources. In this paper, ALOS PALSAR, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and ground data are used for estimating of above ground biomass (AGB) with SVM-genetic model Moreover Landsat satellite data was used to estimate land use change detection. The wide range of vegetation, textural and principal component analysis (PCA) indices (using optical images) and backscatter, decomposition and textural features (from radar images) are derived together with in situ collected AGB data into model to predict AGB. The results indicated that the coefficient of determination (R2) for ALOS PALSAR, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 were 0.51, 0.50 and 0.60 respectively. The best accuracy for combining all data was 0.83. Afterwards, the carbon stock map was calculated. Landsat series data were acquired to document the spatiotemporal dynamics of green spaces in the study area. By using a supervised classification algorithm, multi-temporal land use/cover data were extracted from a set of satellite images and the carbon stock time series simulated by using carbon stock maps and green space (urban forest) maps.


Author(s):  
S. Adeli ◽  
B. Salehi ◽  
M. Mahidanpari ◽  
L. J. Quackenbush

Abstract. Wetlands are highly productive ecosystems that offer unique services on regional and global scales including nutrient assimilation, carbon reduction, geochemical cycling, and water storage. In recent years, however, they are being lost or exploited as croplands due to natural or man-made stressors (1.4 percent in 5 years within the USA). This decline in the extent of wetlands began legislative activity at a national scale that mandate the regulate use of wetlands. As such, the need for cost-effective, robust, and semi-automated techniques for wetland preservation is ever-increasing in the current era. In this study, we developed a workflow for wetland inventorying on a state-wide scale using optimal incorporation of dual-polarimetry Sentinel-1, multi-spectral Sentinel-2 and dual polarimetry ALOS-PALSAR with the Random Forest (RF) classifier in Google Earth Engine (GEE). A total of 45 features from a stack of multi-season/multi-year SAR and Optical imagery (included more than 5000 imagery) was extracted over Minnesota state, USA. We followed the Cowardin classification scheme for clustering the field data. The classification was performed in two levels in 5 different ecozones that cover the Minnesota state. Depending on the availability field data for each ecozone overall accuracies changed from 77% to 85%. The variable importance analysis suggests that Sentinel-2 spectral features are dominant in terms of their capability for wetland delineation. Sentinel-1 backscattering coefficient was also superior among other SAR features. Ultimately, the results of this study shall illustrate the applicability of free of charge earth observation data coupled with the advanced machine learning techniques that are available in GEE for better restoration and management of wetlands.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 943
Author(s):  
Andreas Schmitt ◽  
Anna Wendleder ◽  
Rüdiger Kleynmans ◽  
Maximilian Hell ◽  
Achim Roth ◽  
...  

This article spanned a new, consistent framework for production, archiving, and provision of analysis ready data (ARD) from multi-source and multi-temporal satellite acquisitions and an subsequent image fusion. The core of the image fusion was an orthogonal transform of the reflectance channels from optical sensors on hypercomplex bases delivered in Kennaugh-like elements, which are well-known from polarimetric radar. In this way, SAR and Optics could be fused to one image data set sharing the characteristics of both: the sharpness of Optics and the texture of SAR. The special properties of Kennaugh elements regarding their scaling—linear, logarithmic, normalized—applied likewise to the new elements and guaranteed their robustness towards noise, radiometric sub-sampling, and therewith data compression. This study combined Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 on an Octonion basis as well as Sentinel-2 and ALOS-PALSAR-2 on a Sedenion basis. The validation using signatures of typical land cover classes showed that the efficient archiving in 4 bit images still guaranteed an accuracy over 90% in the class assignment. Due to the stability of the resulting class signatures, the fuzziness to be caught by Machine Learning Algorithms was minimized at the same time. Thus, this methodology was predestined to act as new standard for ARD remote sensing data with an subsequent image fusion processed in so-called data cubes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-252
Author(s):  
Nicolás Emanuel Vidal Quini ◽  
Alejandra Mabel Geraldi
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En los últimos años se desarrolla un creciente interés en detectar, delimitar e inventariar humedales bajo un enfoque ecohidrogeomórfico para ampliar el conocimiento de estos ecosistemas y posibilitar la elaboración de lineamientos de gestión para su aprovechamiento. El objetivo de esta investigación es detectar y delimitar aquellos sectores que reflejan condiciones ecohidrogeomórficas favorables para definirlos como humedales en un sector de la cuenca Alsina ubicada en el sudoeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Se aplicó una metodología complementaria entre imágenes ópticas y radar que consiste en la utilización de un modelo digital de elevación Alos Palsar e imágenes Sentinel 2 A y Sentinel 1. Se abordó un pulso de inundación en la laguna ocurrido en el año 2017. Los eventos húmedos reflejan el funcionamiento de la laguna y los sistemas de humedales. Se analizaron cambios biofísicos que ocurrieron en los sectores perilagunares en referencia al ingreso de lluvias. Los resultados verificaron la presencia de diferentes tipologías de humedales entre la laguna y su área perilagunar que durante una inundación funcionan como un ecosistema híbrido.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1751
Author(s):  
Tuomas Häme ◽  
Laura Sirro ◽  
Jorma Kilpi ◽  
Lauri Seitsonen ◽  
Kaj Andersson ◽  
...  

A method to detect abrupt land cover changes using hierarchical clustering of multi-temporal satellite imagery was developed. The Autochange method outputs the pre-change land cover class, the change magnitude, and the change type. Pre-change land cover information is transferred to post-change imagery based on classes derived by unsupervised clustering, enabling using data from different instruments for pre- and post-change. The change magnitude and change types are computed by unsupervised clustering of the post-change image within each cluster, and by comparing the mean intensity values of the lower level clusters with their parent cluster means. A computational approach to determine the change magnitude threshold for the abrupt change was developed. The method was demonstrated with three summer image pairs Sentinel-2/Sentinel-2, Landsat 8/Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-2/ALOS 2 PALSAR in a study area of 12,372 km2 in southern Finland for the detection of forest clear cuts and tested with independent data. The Sentinel-2 classification produced an omission error of 5.6% for the cut class and 0.4% for the uncut class. Commission errors were 4.9% for the cut class and 0.4% for the uncut class. For the Landsat 8/Sentinel-2 classifications the equivalent figures were 20.8%, 0.2%, 3.4%, and 1.6% and for the Sentinel-2/ALOS PALSAR classification 16.7%, 1.4%, 17.8%, and 1.3%, respectively. The Autochange algorithm and its software implementation was considered applicable for the mapping of abrupt land cover changes using multi-temporal satellite data. It allowed mixing of images even from the optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors in the same change analysis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 223 ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
Siham ACHARKI ◽  
Pierre Louis FRISON ◽  
Mina AMHARREF ◽  
Hanna KHOJ ◽  
Samed BERNOUSSI

Dans cet article, nous évaluons les performances de classification de trois algorithmes non paramétriques (kNN, RF et SVM) en utilisant les données multi-temporelles de trois satellites (Sentinel-1, Alos-Palsar-2 et Sentinel-2) et de leurs combinaisons. La zone d'étude choisie se caractérise par un climat méditerranéen subhumide et une topographie très accidentée qui rend la classification d’occupation du sol particulièrement difficile. En outre, elle contient une aire protégée nommée Jbel Moussa et présente une diversité biologique exceptionnelle. Afin de suivre le couvert végétal de cette dernière, nous avons acquis et prétraités les images satellitaires optiques et radar pour la période du 1er janvier au 31 décembre 2017. Ensuite, nous avons combiné les trois satellites, soit douze scénarios produits. Des cartes de classifications illustrent notre approche. Un total de trente-six classifications a été obtenu, en se basant sur sept classes : eau, bâtiment et infrastructures, sol nu, végétation peu dense, prairies, forêt peu dense et forêt dense. Les résultats ont montré que pour tous les scénarios, la précision globale la plus élevée a été produite par RF (53,03%-93,06%), suivie de kNN (49,16%-89,63%), tandis que SVM (47,86%-86,08%) a produit la précision de classification la plus faible. L'étude a également montré une similitude entre les performances de la combinaison des trois satellites et celles de Sentinel-2 seul.  Les estimations de la superficie pour les différentes classes vont de 0,85 km2 (0,11% de la zone d'étude) à 326,84 km2 (41,31% de la zone d'étude)


2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 278
Author(s):  
José Antônio Vilar Pereira ◽  
Yuri Gomes de Souza ◽  
Iluliane Maria Gadelha Correia ◽  
Bartolomeu Israel de Souza
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O Bioma Caatinga apresenta uma biodiversidade exclusiva, entretanto, apesar da sua importância, este vem passando por um acelerado processo de modificação das suas paisagens em consequência do uso inadequado dos seus recursos naturais. Mesmo com este quadro de degradação, apenas algumas áreas são protegidas por unidades de conservação. Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o uso e a cobertura do solo e entender a influência do relevo nas respostas dos índices de vegetação NDWI e o SAVI na APA das Onças/PB. Analisou-se os índices de vegetação com imagens Sentinel-2 e os dados hipsométricos com imagens do satélite Alos Palsar. Como resultados, identificou-se que a maior parte da área está recoberta por vegetação do tipo Esparsa e Semi-densa, compreendendo cerca de 38,9% e 35,38% do território da APA, respectivamente, enquanto o Solo Exposto representa 22,07%, a Vegetação Densa 3,56% e a Água 0,02%. Com relação às respostas dos índices, estes tiveram resultados aproximados, apresentando uma concentração de valores mais baixos de SAVI e de valores negativos de NDWI na maior parte da APA, indicando áreas degradadas com baixo teor de umidade. Já os valores positivos, estiveram nas zonas mais elevadas, sinalizando presença de vegetação densa e maior umidade.


2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A128-A128 ◽  
Author(s):  
D QUEIROZ ◽  
G ROCHA ◽  
A SANTOS ◽  
A BOCEWICZ ◽  
A ROCHA ◽  
...  

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