scholarly journals Grossflächige Klassifikation von Gebüschwald mit Fernerkundungsdaten

2020 ◽  
Vol 171 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Dominique Weber ◽  
Marius Rüetschi ◽  
David Small ◽  
Christian Ginzler

Large-scale classification of shrub forest with remote sensing data Information on shrub forest distribution and development is important for a range of forestry- and ecologically-related questions, but current and area-wide datasets have been characterized by limited availability. In this study, the mapping of shrub forests dominated by green alder, mountain pine and hazel for the canton of Grison was investigated, based on available nationwide remote sensing data. Satellite data from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2, as well as a vegetation height and an elevation model were used. Training areas provided by the canton and supplemented by aerial imagery interpretation were used for a supervised classification with Random Forest, a decision tree-based machine learning algorithm. Independent validation of the results was carried out with data from the National Forest Inventory (NFI). Green alder and mountain pine forests were classified with high accuracy of 92.1% respectively 86.7%, whereas for hazel shrub forests, the internal model accuracy was only 66.7%. The resulting area expansion of the shrub forest was comparable with findings based on the NFI. A direct comparison with the NFI aerial imagery interpretation points revealed major discrepancies. The main reason for this is the different degree of spatial detail. However, NFI areas with a high percentage of shrubs were reliably classified as shrub forest. The method presented here underscores the potential of remote sensing data available throughout Switzerland for an essentially objective, costefficient and large-scale mapping of shrub forests with an accuracy applicable in practice.

2019 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 695-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianbo Qi ◽  
Donghui Xie ◽  
Tiangang Yin ◽  
Guangjian Yan ◽  
Jean-Philippe Gastellu-Etchegorry ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-365
Author(s):  
Hannah J. White ◽  
Willson Gaul ◽  
Dinara Sadykova ◽  
Lupe León‐Sánchez ◽  
Paul Caplat ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 199-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaoyan Chen ◽  
Guozhou Zheng ◽  
Cong Fang ◽  
Ningyu Zhang ◽  
Huajun Chen ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 4488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nannan Gao ◽  
Fen Li ◽  
Hui Zeng ◽  
Daniël van Bilsen ◽  
Martin De Jong

Aging, shrinking cities, urban agglomerations and other new key terms continue to emerge when describing the large-scale population changes in various cities in mainland China. It is important to simulate the distribution of residential populations at a coarse scale to manage cities as a whole, and at a fine scale for policy making in infrastructure development. This paper analyzes the relationship between the DN (Digital number, value assigned to a pixel in a digital image) value of NPP-VIIRS (the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) and LuoJia1-01 and the residential populations of urban areas at a district, sub-district, community and court level, to compare the influence of resolution of remote sensing data by taking urban land use to map out auxiliary data in which first-class (R1), second-class (R2) and third-class residential areas (R3) are distinguished by house price. The results show that LuoJia1-01 more accurately analyzes population distributions at a court level for second- and third-class residential areas, which account for over 85% of the total population. The accuracy of the LuoJia1-01 simulation data is higher than that of Landscan and GHS (European Commission Global Human Settlement) population. This can be used as an important tool for refining the simulation of residential population distributions. In the future, higher-resolution night-time light data could be used for research on accurate simulation analysis that scales down large-scale populations.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianbin Tao ◽  
Wenbin Wu ◽  
Meng Xu

Global food demand will increase over the next few decades, and sustainable agricultural intensification on current cropland may be a preferred option to meet this demand. Mapping cropping intensity with remote sensing data is of great importance for agricultural production, food security, and agricultural sustainability in the context of global climate change. However, there are some challenges in large-scale cropping intensity mapping. First, existing indicators are too coarse, and fine indicators for measuring cropping intensity are lacking. Second, the regional, intra-class variations detected in time-series remote sensing data across vast areas represent environment-related clusters for each cropping intensity level. However, few existing studies have taken into account the intra-class variations caused by varied crop patterns, crop phenology, and geographical differentiation. In this research, we first presented a new definition, a normalized cropping intensity index (CII), to quantify cropping intensity precisely. We then proposed a Bayesian network model fusing prior knowledge (BNPK) to address the issue of intra-class variations when mapping CII over large areas. This method can fuse regional differentiation factors as prior knowledge into the model to reduce the uncertainty. Experiments on five sample areas covering the main grain-producing areas of mainland China proved the effectiveness of the model. Our research proposes the framework of obtain a CII map with both a finer spatial resolution and a fine temporal resolution at a national scale.


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