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ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 74, Issue -, Pages 20-33Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2012.07.004
Keywords
PALSAR; MODIS; Evergreen forest; Deciduous forest; Rubber plantation; Hainan
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Funding
- NASA Land Use and Land Cover Change Program [NNX09AC39G]
- US National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR Program [NSF-0919466]
- Chinese National Key Program for Developing Basic Science [2010CB950900]
- EPSCoR
- Office Of The Director [0919466] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NASA [120631, NNX09AC39G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Knowledge of the spatial distribution of forest types in tropical regions is important for implementation of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), better understanding of the global carbon cycle, and optimal forest management. Frequent cloud cover in moist tropical regions poses challenges for using optical images to map and monitor forests. Recently, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) released a 50 m orthorectified mosaic product from the Phased Array Type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) onboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS). PALSAR data provides information about the land surface without cloud interference. In this study we use the fine beam dual (FBD) polarization PALSAR 50 m mosaic imagery and a Neural Network (NN) method to produce a land cover map in Hainan Island, China. Subsequently, forest areas are classified into evergreen and deciduous forests and rubber plantations are mapped using vegetation and land surface water indices derived from 250 to 500 m resolution MODIS products. The PALSAR 50 m forest cover map, MODIS-based forest types and rubber plantation maps are fused to generate fractional maps of evergreen forest, deciduous forest and rubber plantation within 500 m or 250 m pixels. PALSAR data perform well for land cover classification (overall accuracy = 89% and Kappa Coefficient = 0.79) and forest identification (both the Producer's Accuracy and User's Accuracy are higher than 92%). The resulting land cover maps of forest, cropland, water and urban lands are consistent with the National Land Cover Dataset of China in 2005 (NLCD-2005). Validation from ground truth samples indicates that the resultant rubber plantation map is highly accurate (the overall accuracy = 85%). Overall, this study provides insight on the potential of integrating cloud-free 50 m PALSAR and temporal MODIS data on mapping forest types and rubber plantations in moist tropical regions. (c) 2012 International Society for Photogrammety and Remote Sensing, Inc. (ISPRS) Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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