Mapping Forest and Their Spatial-Temporal Changes From 2007 to 2015 in Tropical Hainan Island by Integrating ALOS/ALOS-2 L-Band SAR and Landsat Optical Images

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第一作者： Chen, Bangqian

作者： Chen, Bangqian;Wu, Zhixiang;Sun, Rui;Xie, Guishui;Chen, Bangqian;Xiao, Xiangming;Ma, Jun;Li, Xiangping;Zhao, Bin;Xiao, Xiangming;Doughty, Russell;Dong, Jinwei;Qin, Yuanwei;Xiao, Xiangming;Doughty, Russell;Dong, Jinwei;Qin, Yuanwei;Ye, Huichun;Ye, Huichun

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关键词： Forest loss and gain; high biomass crops; image data fusion; land surface water index (LSWI); normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)

期刊名称：IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING （ 影响因子：3.784； 五年影响因子：3.734 ）

ISSN： 1939-1404

年卷期： 2018 年 11 卷 3 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Accurately monitoring forest dynamics in the tropical regions is essential for ecological studies and forest management. In this study, images from phase-array L-band synthetic aperture radar (PALSAR), PALSAR-2, and Landsat in 2006-2010 and 2015 were combined to identify tropical forest dynamics on Hainan Island, China. Annual forest maps were first mapped from PALSAR and PALSAR-2 images using structural metrics. Those pixels with a high biomass of sugarcane or banana, which are widely distributed in the tropics and subtropics and have similar structural metrics as forests, were excluded from the SAR-based forest maps by using phenological metrics from time series Landsat imagery. The optical-SAR-based forest maps in 2010 and 2015 had high overall accuracies (OA) of 92-97% when validated with ground reference data. The resultant forest map in 2010 shows good spatial agreement with public optical- based forest maps (OA = 88-90%), and the annual forest maps (2007-2010) were spatiotemporally consistent and more accurate than the PALSAR-based forest map from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (OA = 82% in 2010). The areas of forest gain, loss, and net change on Hainan Island from 2007 to 2015 were 415 000 ha (+2.17% yr(-1)), 179 000 ha (-0.94% yr(-1)), and 236 000 ha (+1.23% yr(-1)), respectively. About 95% of forest gain and loss occurred in those areas with an elevation less than 400 m, where deciduous rubber, eucalyptus plantations, and urbanization expanded rapidly. This study demonstrates the potential of PALSAR/PALSAR-2/Landsat image fusion for monitoring annual forest dynamics in the tropical regions.

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