NDLI: Evaluation of the potential of Landsat ETM+ for forest density mapping in zagros forests of Iran

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Author	Darvishsefat, A.A. Saroei, S.
Copyright Year	2003
Description	Author affiliation: Fac. of Nat. Resources, Tehran Univ., Karaj, Iran (Darvishsefat, A.A.)
Abstract	Forest in semi-arid regions as susceptible ecosystem needs to be managed based on accurate information. One of the most important information is forest density. In this study the potential of Landsat ETM+ data in forest density (canopy area percentage) mapping was investigated. ETM image from a rugged forested area (50000 ha) in west of Iran, dating may 2000, was analyzed. The quality of the image was first evaluated. No noticeable radiometric and geometric distortion was detected. Image orthorectification was performed using the satellite ephemeris data, an accurate digital elevation model and 14 ground control points. The RMS error was less than half of a pixel. A precise ground truth map with four forest density classes was prepared for 20% of the study area. 26 aerial photographs (1:40000) dated June 1997 were interpreted visually based on fieldwork. The resulted forest density polygons were digitized to generate the ground truth map. Various synthetic bands such as bands resulted from image fusion, principal component analysis, tasseled cap transformation and band rationing were used. The best spectral band-sets for classification were selected using "Bhattacharrya distance" criterion based on training areas. The supervised classification of data was performed using spectral angle mapper (SAM), maximum likelihood, minimum distance to mean and parallelepiped classifiers. Along with four density classes (very thin, thin, semi-dense and dense) MD classifier showed the highest overall accuracy and kappa coefficient equal to 53% and 0.39 respectively. Signature separability and classification accuracies showed that the second and the third classes had the most spectral reflection similarity. After merging these two classes the classification was repeated. In this case the ML classifier showed the highest overall accuracy and kappa coefficient equal to 66% and 0.50 respectively. Based on these results, in such regions, low forest canopy increases the role of background reflection. High spatial resolution image and advanced classification methods, such as object-base classification should be considered to improve the potential of this application.
Starting Page	2529
Ending Page	2531
File Size	1320743
Page Count	3
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780379292
DOI	10.1109/IGARSS.2003.1294498
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2003-07-21
Publisher Place	France
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Remote sensing Reflection Ecosystems Image analysis Radiometry Satellite broadcasting Digital elevation models Fusion power generation Image fusion Principal component analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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