Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEOINFORMATION
Volume 58, Issue -, Pages 107-117Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2017.01.016
Keywords
LiDAR; Biomass; Wetland vegetation; Hyperspectral; Reed; Phragmites australis
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Funding
- Office of China Postdoctoral Council [20140042]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41371350, 41271428, 41671434]
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Wetland biomass is essential for monitoring the stability and productivity of wetland ecosystems. Conventional field methods to measure or estimate wetland biomass are accurate and reliable, but expensive, time consuming and labor intensive. This research explored the potential for estimating Wetland reed biomass using a combination of airborne discrete-return Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and hyperspectral data. To derive the optimal predictor variables of reed biomass, a range of LiDAR and hyperspectral metrics at different spatial scales were regressed against the field-observed biomasses. The results showed that the LiDAR-derived H_p99 (99th percentile of the LiDAR height) and hyperspectral-calculated modified soil-adjusted vegetation index (MSAVI) were the best metrics for estimating reed biomass using the single regression model. Although the LiDAR data yielded a higher estimation accuracy compared to the hyperspectral data, the combination of LiDAR and hyperspectral data produced a more accurate prediction model for reed biomass (R-2 = 0.648, RMSE = 167.546 g/m(2), RMSEr =20.71%) than LiDAR data alone. Thus, combining LiDAR data with hyperspectral data has a great potential for improving the accuracy of aboveground biomass estimation. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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