Land Cover Change Monitoring change over time Ned
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Land Cover Change Monitoring change over time Ned Horning Director of Applied Biodiversity Informatics horning@amnh. org http: //biodiversityinformatics. amnh. org
Land Cover Change early date late date change image
Why monitor land cover change? Identify areas of deforestation/reforestation Monitor growth of urban or rural populations Predict future change based on past change Provide data for climate or carbon budget models Monitor changes in species habitat Monitor changes in agriculture patterns Carbon trading
What are the options for output products? Classified maps Statistics Multi-date visual change images
Classified maps The most familiar type of land cover change product Provides “wallto-wall” mapped output Typically costly and time consuming
Statistics Common during the early years of remote sensing Relies on sampling statistics Primary disadvantages are that accuracy is lower and mapped output is not created Forest unchanged 6271 Hectares 67. 4% Non-forest unchanged 2823 Hectares 30. 3% Deforestation 212 Hectares 2. 3% Total area 9306 Hectares 100%
Visual change image Very quick and easy method for illustrating change Requires minimal skill to create the visualization Red = Band 5 most recent image Green = Band 5 older image Blue = Band 5 older image Interpretation requires familiarity of the landscape No quantitative/classified product is produced
Classification approaches Post classification Multi-date composites Image math Spectral change vectors On-screen digitizing/editing On-screen swipe or flicker Multi-temporal RGB image Hybrid approaches
Comparing two classified images (post-classification) Very intuitive Rarely the most accurate because errors from each land cover classification are added together Early date Late date Change image
Multi-date composite classification Combines imagery from two dates into a single multi-date image Multi-date image is classified using the automated classification method of choice Advantage is that change classes are directly output Often the method of choice
Image math TM band 5 early date TM band 5 late date Uses single-band products (i. e. , image bands or NDVI) from each date Easy and fast to compute Output shows areas that have changed from one date to the next Often used to create a mask highlighting areas that have undergone some sort of land cover change Difference image Image mask white = change
Spectral change vectors Produces a magnitude of change image (similar to image math) and a direction of change image
On-screen digitizing / editing Sometimes called heads-up digitizing Visual methods are used to manually outline areas that have been visually identified as changing from one cover type to another Editing/updating previous land cover maps with more recent imagery can provide a reliable land cover change map Requires familiarity of landscape
On-screen swipe or flicker Visual assessment only Often used to help with on-screen digitizing
Multi-temporal RGB image Visual assessment only Often used to help with on-screen digitizing Red=band 5 late date Green=band 5 early date Red=band 5 early date
Hybrid approach Uses a combination of manual and automated classification methods Use automated methods to classify the image and then manual methods to edit the classification to improve accuracy Use automated methods to classify the “easy” classes and manual methods for the rest Use automated methods to create land cover for one date then edit the land cover map to determine change
Dealing with different data sources Difficult/impossible to use similar imagery when conducting land cover change over a long time period On-screen digitizing works well since the human brain is pretty good and sorting through the different image qualities when using multiple image types Post-classification is an alternative if automated methods are preferred Normalize all images to a common reference
What about data normalization Goal is to make the two images similar with respect to radiometric and geometric qualities Accurate image-to-image registration is very important when using automated methods to avoid false change due to offset pixels between dates Image-to-image registration is more important than absolution image registration Radiometric normalization reduces the change in pixel value between two dates caused by factors other than changes in land cover
Issues to consider Sensor characteristics (resolution, radiometric) Solar illumination / seasonality Soil moisture Acquisition date and frequency Water levels (tide, river and lake level)
Vietnam case study Change detection in central Vietnam Wanted to monitor changes in land cover from the early 1960’s to the present Wanted to use four or five time periods Decided to use ASTER, Landsat ETM+, Landsat TM, Landsat MSS, Corona, and aerial photography. Use primarily visual methods for mapping land cover change
Historical land cover change in Central Vietnam • Understand critical biodiversity needs • Determine how the landscape has taken shape • Support the development of protected areas Red-shanked Douc Langur Saola http: //www. szgdocent. org/pp/p-douc. htm http: //www. wwfindochina. org/conservation/species/saola. htm Giant Muntjac http: //coombs. anu. edu. au/~vern/species/schaller. html
Vietnam’s Central Truong Son
Landsat ETM+ Digital color infrared Acquired: April 21, 2003 Spatial resolution: 30 meters
Landsat TM Digital color infrared Acquired: February 17, 1989 Spatial resolution: 30 meters
Landsat MSS Digital color infrared Acquired: March 14, 1975 Spatial resolution: 57 meters
Corona Panchromatic (b/w) film Acquired: March 2, 1969 Spatial Resolution: 3 meters
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