期刊
REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT
卷 265, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112648
关键词
Forest degradation; Deforestation; Disturbance; Landsat; Google Earth Engine; CCDC-SMA; Time series analysis; Change detection; Area estimation
资金
- NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program [80NSSC18K0315]
- USGS Landsat Science Team Pro-gram for Better Use of the Landsat Temporal Domain: Monitoring Land Cover Type, Condition and Change [G12PC00070]
Recent advancements in remote sensing data and cloud computing platforms have provided new opportunities for monitoring forest degradation in temperate regions. A new approach combining time series analysis and spectral mixture analysis successfully mapped and estimated the area of forest degradation in Georgia.
Current estimates of forest degradation are associated with large uncertainties. However, recent advancements in the availability of remote sensing data (e.g., the free data policies of the Landsat and Sentinel Programs) and cloud computing platforms (e.g., Google Earth Engine (GEE)) provide new opportunities for monitoring forest degradation. Several recent studies focus on monitoring forest degradation in the tropics, particularly the Amazon, but there are less studies of temperate forest degradation. Compared to the Amazon, temperate forests have more seasonality, which complicates satellite-based monitoring. Here, we present an approach, Continuous Change Detection and Classification - Spectral Mixture Analysis (CCDC-SMA), that combines time series analysis and spectral mixture analysis running on GEE for monitoring abrupt and gradual forest degradation in temperate regions. We used this approach to monitor forest degradation and deforestation from 1987 to 2019 in the country of Georgia. Reference conditions were observed at sample locations selected under stratified random sampling for area estimation and accuracy assessment. The overall accuracy of our map was 91%. The user's accuracy and producer's accuracy of the forest degradation class were 69% and 83%, respectively. The sampling-based area estimate with 95% confidence intervals of forest degradation was 3541 +/- 556 km(2) (11% of the forest area in 1987), which was significantly larger than the area estimate of deforestation, 158 +/- 98 km(2). Our approach successfully mapped forest degradation and estimated the area of forest degradation in Georgia with small uncertainty, which earlier studies failed to estimate.
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