期刊
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING
卷 14, 期 -, 页码 5285-5299出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3080711
关键词
Forestry; Vegetation mapping; Laser radar; Biomass; Measurement by laser beam; Measurement; Satellites; Digital elevation models (DEMs); error analysis; forestry; uncertainty; vegetation mapping
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资金
- European Regional Development Fund [GR18028, GR18052]
- Consejeria de Economia, Ciencia y Agenda Digital of Junta de Extremadura
- European Social Fund [PD16018]
- Consejeria de Economia, Ciencia y Agenda Digital of Junta de Extremadura (Spain)
Information on forest structures is increasingly important for global carbon cycling, forest habitats, and biodiversity. The study compared GEDI data with other digital elevation models for Southwest Spain, finding that in some areas, the errors were less than 1 meter. The results indicate a clear relationship between coverage and slope, especially the latter.
Information about forest structures is becoming crucial to earth's global carbon cycle, forest habitats, and biodiversity. The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) provides 25-m diameter footprints of the surface for 3-D structure measurements. The main goal of this study is to compare 12 031 footprints of GEDI data with other airborne and spaceborne digital elevation models (DEMs) for Southwest Spain. Ground elevation differences [elevation of the lowest mode (ELM)] are analyzed by comparing GEDI measurements with airborne laser scanning (ALS) LiDAR- and TanDEM-X-derived DEMs. The vertical structure (RH100) is compared to the ALS LiDAR measurement. Ten zones are analyzed, considering different degrees of coverage and slopes. We achieved a root mean square error (RMSE) of 6.13 m for the ELM when comparing GEDI and LiDAR data and an RMSE of 7.14 m when comparing GEDI and TanDEM-X data. For some of the studied areas, these values were considerably smaller, with RMSE values even lower than 1 m. For the RH100 metric, an RMSE of 3.56 m was achieved when comparing GEDI and LiDAR data, but again with a minimum value of 2.09 m for one zone. The results show a clear relation to coverage and slope, especially for the latter. This work also evaluates the positional uncertainty of GEDI footprints, shifting them +/- 10 and +/- 5 m along and across the track of the satellite orbit and their intermediate angular positions. The outcomes reveal a strong tendency to obtain better results in the ELM when setting the footprint to 270 degrees and displacing it within 10 m of its positional uncertainty in comparison with the LiDAR and TanDEM-X data.
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