학술논문

Improved estimation of aboveground biomass of regional coniferous forests integrating UAV-LiDAR strip data, Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imageries.
Document Type
Article
Source
Plant Methods. 6/30/2023, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p1-19. 19p.
Subject
*BIOMASS estimation
*CONIFEROUS forests
*CARBON sequestration in forests
*FOREST biomass
*LANDSAT satellites
*FOREST mapping
*WAVELET transforms
Language
ISSN
1746-4811
Abstract
Background: Forest aboveground biomass (AGB) is not only the basis for estimating forest carbon storage, but also an important parameter for evaluating forest carbon cycle contribution and forest ecological function. Data saturation and fewer field plots limit the accuracy of AGB estimation. In response to these questions, we constructed a point-line-polygon framework for regional coniferous forests AGB mapping using field survey data, UAV-LiDAR strip data, Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imageries in this study. Under this framework, we explored the feasibility of acquiring the LiDAR sampling plots using the LiDAR sampling strategy consistent with the field survey, and analyzed the potentials of multi-scale wavelet transform (WT) textures and tree species stratification for improving AGB estimation accuracy of coniferous forests in North China. Results: The results showed that UAV-LiDAR strip data of high density point clouds could be used as a sampling tool to achieve sample amplification. Experimental comparison results showed that the Sentinel-based AGB estimation models incorporating the multi-scale WT textures and SAR data performed better, and the model based on coniferous forests tree species significantly improved the performance of AGB estimation. Additionally, the accuracy comparison using different validation sets indicated that the proposed LiDAR sampling strategy under the point-line-polygon framework was suitable for estimating coniferous forests AGB on a large area. The highest accuracy of AGB estimation of larch, Chinese pine and all coniferous forests was 74.55%, 78.96%, and 73.42%, respectively. Conclusions: The proposed approach can successfully alleviate the data signal saturation issue and accurately produce a large-scale wall-to-wall high-resolution AGB map by integrating optical and SAR data with a relative small number of field plots. Highlights: The LiDAR sampling strategy consistent with the field survey under the point-line-polygon framework for wall-to-wall large-scale coniferous forests AGB mapping combining limited field plots, UAV-LiDAR strip data, and multi-sensor satellite imagery is proposed. Build and compare different AGB estimation models of coniferous forests under stratification of tree species and non-stratification. Analyze the improvement of AGB estimation accuracy and the reduction of the data saturation issue by incorporating the multi-scale wavelet transform features of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]