Mapping Spatial Distribution of Larch Plantations from Multi-Seasonal Landsat-8 OLI Imagery and Multi-Scale Textures Using Random Forests

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第一作者： Gao, Tian

作者： Gao, Tian;Zhu, Jiaojun;Zheng, Xiao;Shang, Guiduo;Huang, Liyan;Gao, Tian;Zhu, Jiaojun;Zheng, Xiao;Shang, Guiduo;Huang, Liyan;Shang, Guiduo;Huang, Liyan;Wu, Shangrong

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期刊名称：REMOTE SENSING （ 影响因子：4.848； 五年影响因子：5.353 ）

ISSN： 2072-4292

年卷期： 2015 年 7 卷 2 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： The knowledge about spatial distribution of plantation forests is critical for forest management, monitoring programs and functional assessment. This study demonstrates the potential of multi-seasonal (spring, summer, autumn and winter) Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager imageries with random forests (RF) modeling to map larch plantations (LP) in a typical plantation forest landscape in North China. The spectral bands and two types of textures were applied for creating 675 input variables of RF. An accuracy of 92.7% for LP, with a Kappa coefficient of 0.834, was attained using the RF model. A RF-based importance assessment reveals that the spectral bands and bivariate textural features calculated by pseudo-cross variogram (PC) strongly promoted forest class-separability, whereas the univariate textural features influenced weakly. A feature selection strategy eliminated 93% of variables, and then a subset of the 47 most essential variables was generated. In this subset, PC texture derived from summer and winter appeared the most frequently, suggesting that this variability in growing peak season and non-growing season can effectively enhance forest class-separability. A RF classifier applied to the subset led to 91.9% accuracy for LP, with a Kappa coefficient of 0.829. This study provides an insight into approaches for discriminating plantation forests with phenological behaviors.

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