期刊
REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT
卷 263, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112560
关键词
Subtle change; Time series analysis; Change detection; Bark beetle; Early detection
资金
- American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) William A. Fisher Scholarship
- Norma and Howard Geller'77 Endowed Research Awards
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) -NASA Landsat Science Team Program for Toward Near Real-time Monitoring and Characterization of Landsat Surface Change for the Conterminous United States [140G0119C0008]
- U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Land Change Science Program under the Core Science Systems Mission Area
Subtle changes driven by shifts in land condition or biological attributes lead to minimal alterations of the terrestrial surface, and accurate monitoring of these changes is crucial for early warning. An advanced framework called 'PIDS' was introduced to detect subtle forest disturbances using Landsat data, showing improved performance compared to other methods. This study has practical implications for detecting subtle changes in land cover using event-based reference samples.
In contrast to abrupt changes caused by land cover conversion, subtle changes driven by a shift in the condition, structure, or other biological attributes of land often lead to minimal and slower alterations of the terrestrial surface. Accurate mapping and monitoring of subtle change are crucial for an early warning of long-term gradual change that may eventually result in land cover conversion. Freely accessible moderate-resolution datasets such as the Landsat archive have great potential to characterize subtle change by capturing low-magnitude spectral changes in long-term observations. However, past studies have reported limited success in accurately extracting subtle changes from satellite-based time series analysis. In this study, we introduce a supervised framework named 'PIDS' to detect subtle forest disturbance from a comprehensive Landsat data archive by leveraging disturbance-based calibration sites. PIDS consists of four components: (1) Parameter optimization; (2) Index selection; (3) Dynamic stratified monitoring; and (4) Spatial consideration. PIDS was applied to map the early stage of bark beetle infestations (i.e., a lower per-pixel fraction of trees cover that show visual signs of infestation), which are a typical example of subtle change in conifer forests. Landsat Analysis Ready Data were used as the time series inputs for mapping mountain pine beetle and spruce beetle disturbance between 2001 and 2019 in Colorado, USA. PIDS-detection map assessment showed that the overall performance of PIDS (namely 'F1 score') was 0.86 for mountain pine beetle and 0.73 for spruce beetle, making a substantial improvement (> 0.3) compared to other approaches/products including COntinuous monitoring of Land Disturbance, LandTrendr, and the National Land Cover Database forest disturbance product. A sub-pixel analysis of tree canopy mortality percentage was performed by linking classified high-resolution (0.3- and 1-m) aerial imagery and 30-m PIDSdetection maps. Results show that PIDS typically detects mountain pine beetle infestation when >56% of a Landsat pixel is occupied by red-stage canopy mortality (one year after initial infestation), and spruce beetle infestation when >55% is occupied by gray-stage mortality (two years after initial infestation). This study addresses an important methodological goal pertinent to the utility of event-based reference samples for detecting subtle forest change, which could be potentially applied to other types of subtle land change.
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