K-T变换的林学意义及其在森林蓄积量估算中的应用

本文讨论了K-T变换在林学方面的意义,它可以用于森林信息分析。就K-T的特征空间而言,其林学意义是很明确的,森林具有较高的绿度、湿度和较低的亮度,它们在光谱空间具有相对稳定的位置,利用这一特殊性质,即可用反射光谱描述森林的林学意义及其环境特征。 本文还用K-T变换特性构造了浙江省临安县森林蓄积量的遥感估算模型,它在结构上考虑了林学和环境特征,从而使模型具有一定的物理含义。模型经试验,其结果较为理想,对主要立地类型、其平均森林蓄积量估算精度达到90％左右,可以用于我国南方山区。     

无人机航测技术在森林蓄积量估测中的应用

无人机（UAV）航测技术是近年来发展起来的快速获取高分辨率影像的测绘新技术。森林蓄积量估算需要快速高效地获取森林遥感影像。虽然利用卫星和机载雷达同样可获取高分辨率遥感影像,但无人机航测技术与其相比具有飞行成本低、外业周期短、机动灵活等优点。本文利用无人机航测系统获取了案例地区DSM和DEM,采用最大邻域法提取了树高,采用分水岭算法分割了树冠信息,并以树高和冠幅作为解释变量的立木材积二元模型估算了森林蓄积量。结果表明,树高提取精度为83.73%,冠幅提取精度为86.98%,林分蓄积量估算精度为81.80%。     

协同多源遥感数据的北亚热带森林蓄积量贝叶斯分层估测

精确估算森林蓄积量是国家实现2060年前碳中和目标的迫切需求,而基于遥感的森林蓄积量定量反演是当前遥感应用领域面临的重要挑战和研究热点.光学遥感数据由于无法获取森林高度信息并存在信号饱和问题,反演森林蓄积量的精度较低,而机载Lidar数据能获取高度信息,但成本高、观测范围有限.本研究利用Sentinel-2多光谱、资源...     

基于高光谱遥感反射比的太湖水体叶绿素a含量估算模型

旨在寻找叶绿素a的高光谱遥感敏感波段并建立其定量估算模型。通过对太湖水体的连续监测，获得了从2004年6月到8月3个月的太湖水体高光谱数据和水质化学分析数据。利用实测的高光谱数据分析计算太湖水体的离水辐亮度和遥感反射比；然后，通过相关分析寻找反演叶绿素a浓度的高光谱敏感波段，进而建立反演太湖水体叶绿素a浓度的高光谱遥感定量估算模型，并用相关数据对模型进行精度分析。研究发现，水体的遥感反射比光谱在719nm和725nm存在两个峰，其中719nm处的峰更明显且稳定。通过模型的对比分析，发现用这两个峰值处的遥感反射比参与建模可以提高叶绿素a的估算精度；并且认为由反射比比值变量R719／R670所建立的线性模型对叶绿素a浓度的估算精度最理想。     

中国南方森林冠顶高度Lidar反演—以江西省为例

激光雷达(Lidar)与光学遥感的有效结合对中国南方区域森林冠顶高度反演意义重大,而国产卫星将为中国森林生态研究提供新的数据源。本文联合利用大脚印激光雷达GLA和国产MERSI数据,在实现GLAS波形数据处理和不同地形条件下森林冠顶高度反演算法基础上,建立了区域尺度不同森林类型林分冠顶高度GLAS+MERSI联合反演关系模型,进行了江西地区森林冠顶高度反演。总体上,GLAS激光雷达森林冠顶高度估算精度较高;且在与MERSI 250 m数据的联合反演模型中,针叶林模型精度较好(R²=0.7325);阔叶林次之(R²=0.6095);混交林较差(R²=0.4068)。分析发现,考虑了光学遥感生物物理参数的GLAS+MERSI联合关系模型在区域森林冠顶高度估算中有较高精度,且在空间分布上与土地覆盖数据分布特征非常一致。     

机载多光谱LiDAR的随机森林地物分类

机载多光谱LiDAR技术利用激光进行探测和测距,不仅可以快速获取地面物体的三维坐标,还可以获得多个波段的地物光谱信息,可广泛用于地形测绘、土地覆盖分类、环境建模、森林资源调查等。本文提出了多光谱LiDAR的随机森林地物分类方法。该方法通过对LiDAR强度数据和高程数据提取分类特征,完成多光谱LiDAR的随机森林地物分类;并分析随机森林的特征贡献度特性,采用后向特征选择方法实现分类特征选择。通过对加拿大Optech Titan多光谱LiDAR数据的试验表明：随机森林方法可以获得较好的地物分类精度,而且可以适当地去除部分冗余和相关的特征,从而有效提高分类精度。     

DTM在改善遥感影象分类精度中的应用

本文着重介绍在遥感影象分类中应用数字地面模型(DTM)改正地物反射光谱中地形影响的方法和试验。笔者选择了位于湖北和江西两省交界处的九宫山地区做为试验区域。试验结果表明,在山地区,单纯利用原始Landsat MSS影象分类,效果很差;采用辐射校正分类法和附有太阳入射角数据的MSS影象分类方法,都能够不同程度地改正地形对地物反射光谱的影响,从而提高了Landsat—2 MSS影象的分类精度。其中附有太阳入射角数据的MSS影象分类精度达到70.4％。     

基于微缩模型的森林BRF测量

利用林木微缩模型构建不同空间分布的林分,测量林分的双向反射率因子(bidirectional reflectance factor,BRF),并对其反射光谱进行了分析研究。结果显示:基于微缩模型得到的观测结果整体较符合实际森林的特征,与三维模型模拟结果一致;在近红外波段,光谱曲线呈典型的"碗边效应",在观测主平面"热点效应"较为明显。研究结果证实林木微缩模型可以用于森林BRF研究。对不同林木模型的分布状态与不同的地形条件的测量结果对比分析后发现,林木分布的密度和坡度是较为敏感的参数,其特征与规律性有助于建模反演地表信息。     

基于随机森林和Landsat8 OLI影像的脐橙果园种植信息提取

针对从中分辨率遥感影像中提取果园种植信息所面临的特征维数高、提取精度低等问题,采用随机森林算法进行特征优选,进而提取脐橙果园种植信息.以重庆奉节为研究区,首先选取春、秋、冬3季Landsat 8 OLI遥感数据生成光谱特征、植被指数特征和纹理特征,并结合地形因子构建初始特征集;再通过随机森林算法确定优选特征集;最后基于随机森林分类器,利用初始特征集和优选特征集进行脐橙果园的提取实验,并对各实验结果进行了精度评估和对比分析.研究结果表明,基于随机森林算法构建的优选特征集能在降低特征维度的情况下获得较高的精度,总体精度和Kappa系数分别为90.71％和0.89.     

利用Sentinel-2A数据提取长江中下游丘陵地带农作物种植信息

长江中下游丘陵地带地块细小破碎、种植结构复杂,导致作物遥感光谱特征相互纠缠,信息精确提取困难等。本文基于Sentinel-2A数据提出了多特征组合优化的丘陵地带农作物种植结构精确识别方法。首先获取研究区内主要农作物的关键物候特征信息;然后计算其光谱特征、纹理特征、地形特征值,构建原始特征集;最后采用随机森林方法对特征进行重要性排序,对原始特征集进行特征变量优化,并选择优化后的组合特征进行监督分类提取出研究区农作物信息。试验结果表明,相较于单变量特征,通过多特征优化组合分类总体精度和Kappa系数分别从80.4%和0.748提高到96.3%和0.954,有效地提高了南方丘陵地带农作物分类精度,算法稳定性较强。在南方丘陵地带农作物的识别过程中,进行特征变量优化后的地形特征与纹理特征能显著提高分类精度。     

基于SWAT模型的细河流域土地利用/覆被变化对径流影响的研究

土地利用/覆被变化对细河流域的水文过程影响显著。为研究不同土地利用/覆被情景对流域水文要素的影响情况,本文构建了适用于细河流域的SWAT分布式水文模型,并拟算出不同情景下的流域多年平均月径流量、多年平均地表径流深度、多年平均蒸发量以及多年平均土壤侧流。模拟结果显示:当流域农林用地增加时,平均月径流量增加了8.40%;当建设用地增加时,平均月径流量减少了4.11%;当旱地及其他未利用地增加时,平均月径流量减少了1.93%。综上所述,细河流域农林用地变化对径流产量的影响相对最大,其增加导致径流量增加;旱地及其他未利用对径流产量的影响相对最小,建设用地和旱地及其他未利用地的增加导致径流量减少。     

Tropical Dry Deciduous Forest Stand Variable Estimation Using SAR Data

Optical remote sensing data have been extensively used to derive biophysical properties that relate forest type and composition. However, stand density, stand height and stand volume cannot be estimated directly from optical remote sensing data owing to poor sensitivity between these parameters and spectral reflectance. The ability of microwave energy to penetrate within forest vegetation makes it possible to extract information on both the crown and trunk components from radar data. The type of polarization employed determines the radar response to the various shapes and orientations of the scattering mechanisms within the canopy or trunk. This study mainly presents experimental results obtained with airborne E-SAR using polarimetric C and L bands over the tropical dry deciduous forest of Chandrapur Forest Division, Maharashtra. A detailed documentation of the relationship between SAR C & L bands backscattering and forest stand variables has been provided in the present study through linear correlation. Linear correlation of the single channel SAR derived estimates with the field measured means show a good correlation between L HV backscattering coefficient with stand volume (r² = 0.71) and L HH backscattering coefficient with stand density (r² = 0.75). The results imply that SAR data has significant potential for stand menstruation in operational forestry.     

激光雷达在森林参数反演中的应用

激光雷达是近年来国际上发展十分迅速的主动遥感技术,在森林参数的定量测量和反演上取得了成功的应用。在林业上,高采样密度激光雷达能够获取单株木3维结构特征,采用不同的数据处理方法,可以得到不同精度的单株木参数。利用激光雷达测量森林参数不仅节省了人力,还提高了工作效率,现在已经成为快速获取树木几何参数的一种有效方法。文中主要介绍了LiDAR工作原理、类型及特点、影响LiDAR数据质量的因素、国内外LiDAR的发展状况及应用领域,重点介绍了国内外利用LiDAR数据反演森林参数(树高、郁闭度、冠幅、林分密度、断面积和蓄积量等)的方法和研究进展,同时对今后LiDAR在森林参数反演方面的研究作了展望。     

机载激光雷达平均树高提取研究

为了研究机载激光雷达(LiDAR)树高提取技术,以山东省泰安市徂徕山林场为实验区,于2005年5月进行了机载LiDAR数据获取和外业测量.通过对LiDAR点云数据的分类处理,分别得到了试验区的地面点云子集、植被点云子集和高程归一化的植被点云子集.基于高程归一化的植被点云子集计算了上四分位数处的高度,与实地测量的数据进行了比较,并结合中国森林调查规程进行了实用性分析.结果表明:对于较低密度的点云数据,使用分位数法可以较好地进行林分平均高的估计;机载激光雷达技术对树高估计是可行的,精度都高于87%,总体平均精度为90.59%,其中阔叶树的精度高于针叶树.该试验精度可以满足中国二类森林调查规程中平均树高因子的一般商品林和生态公益林的精度要求,对国有商品林小班的调查精度要求(5%)存在一点差距,需要在国有商品林区进一步开展验证工作.对本试验区而言,已经可以满足其作为森林公园生态公益林的调查要求.     

Fusion of airborne LiDAR and multispectral sensors reveals synergic capabilities in forest structure characterization

Forest stand structure is an important concept for ecology and planning in sustainable forest management. In this article, we consider that the incorporation of complementary multispectral information from optical sensors to Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) may be advantageous, especially through data fusion by back-projecting the LiDAR points onto the multispectral image. A multivariate data set of both LiDAR and multispectral metrics was related with a multivariate data set of stand structural variables measured in a Scots pine forest through canonical correlation analysis (CCA). Four statistically significant pairs of canonical variables were found, which explained 83.0% accumulated variance. The first pair of canonical variables related indicators of stand development, i.e. height and volume, with LiDAR height metrics. CCA also found attributes describing stand density to be related to LiDAR and spectral variables determining canopy coverage. Other canonical variables pertained to Lorenz curve-derived attributes, which are measures of within-stand tree size variability and heterogeneity, able to discriminate even-sized from uneven-sized stands. The most relevant result was to find that metrics derived from the multispectral sensor showed significant explanatory potential for the prediction of these structural attributes. Therefore, we concluded that metrics derived from the optical sensor have potential for complementing the information from the LiDAR sensor in describing structural properties of forest stands. We recommend the use of back-projecting for jointly exploiting the synergies of both sensors using similar types of metrics as they are customary in forestry applications of LiDAR.     

Biomass allometric equation and expansion factor for a mountain moist evergreen forest in Mozambique

Background

Worldwide, forests are an important carbon sink and thus are key to mitigate the effects of climate change. Mountain moist evergreen forests in Mozambique are threatened by agricultural expansion, uncontrolled logging, and firewood collection, thus compromising their role in carbon sequestration. There is lack of local tools for above-ground biomass (AGB) estimation of mountain moist evergreen forest, hence carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation are not adequately known. This study aimed to develop biomass allometric equations (BAE) and biomass expansion factor (BEF) for the estimation of total above-ground carbon stock in mountain moist evergreen forest.

Methods

The destructive method was used, whereby 39 trees were felled and measured for diameter at breast height (DBH), total height and the commercial height. We determined the wood basic density, the total dry weight and merchantable timber volume by Smalian’s formula. Six biomass allometric models were fitted using non-linear least square regression. The BEF was determined based on the relationship between bole stem dry weight and total dry weight of the tree. To estimate the mean AGB of the forest, a forest inventory was conducted using 27 temporary square plots. The applicability of Marzoli’s volume equation was compared with Smalian’s volume equation in order to check whether Marzoli’s volume from national forest inventory can be used to predict AGB using BEF.

Results

The best model was the power model with only DBH as predictor variable, which provided an estimated mean AGB of 291?±?141 Mg ha^?1 (mean?±?95% confidence level). The mean wood basic density of sampled trees was 0.715?±?0.182 g cm^?3. The average BEF was of 2.05?±?0.15 and the estimated mean AGB of 387?±?126 Mg ha^?1. The BAE from miombo woodland within the vicinity of the study area underestimates the AGB for all sampled trees. Chave et al.’s pantropical equation of moist forest did not fit to the Moribane Forest Reserve, while Brown’s equation of moist forest had a good fit to the Moribane Forest Reserve, having generated 1.2% of bias, very close to that generated by the selected model of this study. BEF showed to be reliable when combined with stand mean volume from Marzoli’s National Forestry Inventory equation.

Conclusion

The BAE and the BEF function developed in this study can be used to estimate the AGB of the mountain moist evergreen forests at Moribane Forest Reserve in Mozambique. However, the use of the biomass allometric model should be preferable when DBH information is available.

     

TEXTURE OF FOREST COMMUNITIES ON AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

The authors discuss a method by which the image characteristics of forest vegetation can be used to determine various valuational characteristics of forest stands through the combination of air photo interpretation and ground surveys at selected training sites. Construction of curves showing changes in image texture and tone occurring at different stages in the growth cycle of a pine forest community are used to estimate the age of a forest stand, and through known relationships between age and other stand characteristics incorporated into yield tables, to approximate such valuational characteristics as mean diameter, mean height, and stand volume. Translated from: Distantsionnyye issledovaniya rel'yefa Sibiri, A. L. Yanshin and V. N. Sharanov, eds. Novosibirsk, Nauka, 1985, pp. 73-78.     

An appraisal of Indonesia’s immense peat carbon stock using national peatland maps: uncertainties and potential losses from conversion

Background

A large proportion of the world’s tropical peatlands occur in Indonesia where rapid conversion and associated losses of carbon, biodiversity and ecosystem services have brought peatland management to the forefront of Indonesia’s climate mitigation efforts. We evaluated peat volume from two commonly referenced maps of peat distribution and depth published by Wetlands International (WI) and the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), and used regionally specific values of carbon density to calculate carbon stocks.

Results

Peatland extent and volume published in the MoA maps are lower than those in the WI maps, resulting in lower estimates of carbon storage. We estimate Indonesia’s total peat carbon store to be within 13.6 GtC (the low MoA map estimate) and 40.5 GtC (the high WI map estimate) with a best estimate of 28.1 GtC: the midpoint of medium carbon stock estimates derived from WI (30.8 GtC) and MoA (25.3 GtC) maps. This estimate is about half of previous assessments which used an assumed average value of peat thickness for all Indonesian peatlands, and revises the current global tropical peat carbon pool to 75 GtC. Yet, these results do not diminish the significance of Indonesia’s peatlands, which store an estimated 30% more carbon than the biomass of all Indonesian forests. The largest discrepancy between maps is for the Papua province, which accounts for 62–71% of the overall differences in peat area, volume and carbon storage. According to the MoA map, 80% of Indonesian peatlands are <300 cm thick and thus vulnerable to conversion outside of protected areas according to environmental regulations. The carbon contained in these shallower peatlands is conservatively estimated to be 10.6 GtC, equivalent to 42% of Indonesia’s total peat carbon and about 12 years of global emissions from land use change at current rates.

Conclusions

Considering the high uncertainties in peatland extent, volume and carbon storage revealed in this assessment of current maps, a systematic revision of Indonesia’s peat maps to produce a single geospatial reference that is universally accepted would improve national peat carbon storage estimates and greatly benefit carbon cycle research, land use management and spatial planning.

     

通用型森林资源调查GIS系统设计与实现

本文分析了PDA森林资源调查采集软件的应用现状,针对现有开发模式和系统框架重用度低、通用性差、难于维护扩展的问题,提出了基于“数据字典”的通用型森林资源调查GIS系统软件的开发方案.采用相关开发工具,进行了系统实现;实践证明,该系统具有良好的通用性和可扩展性.