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  1. Article ; Online: Spatiotemporal dynamics in assimilated-LAI phenology and its impact on subtropical bamboo forest productivity

    Xuejian Li / Huaqiang Du / Guomo Zhou / Fangjie Mao / Junlong Zheng / Hua Liu / Zihao Huang / Shaobai He

    International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, Vol 96, Iss , Pp 102267- (2021)

    2021  

    Abstract: Phenology has a significant effect on forest growth and directly affects the forest ecosystem carbon cycle. Bamboo forests possess strong carbon sequestration capacities. However, it is not clear whether variations in phenology increase or decrease ... ...

    Abstract Phenology has a significant effect on forest growth and directly affects the forest ecosystem carbon cycle. Bamboo forests possess strong carbon sequestration capacities. However, it is not clear whether variations in phenology increase or decrease carbon uptake and storage in subtropical bamboo forests. We first extracted the length of the growing season (LOS) by coupling a data assimilation algorithm and MODIS leaf area index (LAI) data, and then the LOS was used to drive the integrated terrestrial ecosystem carbon-budget (InTEC) model to simulate gross primary productivity (GPP) and net ecosystem productivity (NEP) in Zhejiang Province from 2001 to 2017. Our results showed that the LOS estimation using the assimilated LAI time series was more reliable than that of the MODIS LAI and enhanced vegetation index (EVI). The annual average LOS increased on average by 0.76 day yr−1 from 2001 to 2017. The GPP and NEP simulations based on the LAI assimilation-based phenology indicated that bamboo forest ecosystems possess strong carbon sequestration capacities and act as carbon sinks, with mean annual GPP and NEP values of 434.74 ± 257.93 g C m−2 yr−1 and 141.42 ± 82.54 g C m−2 yr−1, respectively, during 2001–2017. An increase of one day in the regional annual LOS increases the annual average GPP and NEP by 1.34 g C m−2 yr−1 and 0.75 g C m−2 yr−1, respectively. Moreover, the interannual variation of NEP was significantly correlated with precipitation and temperature, whereas GPP was not. Our results demonstrated that phenology extraction based on LAI data assimilation should play an important role in the simulation of bamboo forest productivity with ecological process models. The variation in phenology induced by climate change can strengthen the bamboo forest carbon sink, which is of great significance for subtropical forests coping with climate change in the future.
    Keywords Bamboo forest ; Phenology ; InTEC ; LAI data assimilation ; Productivity ; Climate change ; Physical geography ; GB3-5030 ; Environmental sciences ; GE1-350
    Subject code 550
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  2. Article ; Online: Spatiotemporal Evolution of Fractional Vegetation Cover and Its Response to Climate Change Based on MODIS Data in the Subtropical Region of China

    Hua Liu / Xuejian Li / Fangjie Mao / Meng Zhang / Di’en Zhu / Shaobai He / Zihao Huang / Huaqiang Du

    Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 5, p

    2021  Volume 913

    Abstract: The subtropical vegetation plays an important role in maintaining the structure and function of global ecosystems, and its contribution to the global carbon balance are receiving increasing attention. The fractional vegetation cover (FVC) as an important ...

    Abstract The subtropical vegetation plays an important role in maintaining the structure and function of global ecosystems, and its contribution to the global carbon balance are receiving increasing attention. The fractional vegetation cover (FVC) as an important indicator for monitoring environment change, is widely used to analyze the spatiotemporal pattern of regional and even global vegetation. China is an important distribution area of subtropical vegetation. Therefore, we first used the dimidiate pixel model to extract the subtropical FVC of China during 2001–2018 based on MODIS land surface reflectance data, and then used the linear regression analysis and the variation coefficient to explore its spatiotemporal variations characteristics. Finally, the partial correlation analysis and the partial derivative model were used to analyze the influences and contributions of climate factors on FVC, respectively. The results showed that (1) the subtropical FVC had obvious spatiotemporal heterogeneity; the FVC high-coverage and medium-coverage zones were concentratedly and their combined area accounted for more than 70% of the total study area. (2) The interannual variation in the average subtropical FVC from 2001 to 2018 showed a significant growth trend. (3) In 76.28% of the study area, the regional FVC showed an increasing trend, and the remaining regional FVC showed a decreasing trend. However, the overall fluctuations in the FVC (increasing or decreasing) in the region were relatively stable. (4) The influences of climate factors to the FVC exhibited obvious spatial differences. More than half of all pixels exhibited the influence of the average annual minimum temperature and the annual precipitation had positive on FVC, while the average annual maximum temperature had negative on FVC. (5) The contributions of climate changes to FVC had obvious heterogeneity, and the average annual minimum temperature was the main contribution factor affecting the dynamic variations of FVC.
    Keywords fractional vegetation cover ; dimidiate pixel model ; partial correlation analysis ; subtropical ; climate change ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 910
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  3. Article ; Online: Spatiotemporal LUCC Simulation under Different RCP Scenarios Based on the BPNN_CA_Markov Model

    Zihao Huang / Huaqiang Du / Xuejian Li / Meng Zhang / Fangjie Mao / Di’en Zhu / Shaobai He / Hua Liu

    ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Vol 9, Iss 718, p

    A Case Study of Bamboo Forest in Anji County

    2020  Volume 718

    Abstract: Simulating spatiotemporal land use and land cover change (LUCC) data precisely under future climate scenarios is an important basis for revealing the carbon cycle response of forest ecosystems to LUCC. In this paper, a coupling model consisting of a back ...

    Abstract Simulating spatiotemporal land use and land cover change (LUCC) data precisely under future climate scenarios is an important basis for revealing the carbon cycle response of forest ecosystems to LUCC. In this paper, a coupling model consisting of a back propagation neural network (BPNN), Markov chain, and cellular automata (CA) was designed to simulate the LUCC in Anji County, Zhejiang Province, under four climate scenarios (Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 2.6, 4.5, 6.0, 8.5) from 2024 to 2049 and to analyze the temporal and spatial distribution of bamboo forests in Anji County. Our results provide four outcomes. (1) The transition probability matrices indicate that the area of bamboo forests shows an expansion trend, and the largest contribution to the expansion of bamboo forests is the cultivated land. The Markov chain composed of the average transition probability matrix could perform excellently, with only small errors when simulating the areas of different land-use types. (2) Based on the optimized BPNN, which had a strong generalization ability, a high prediction accuracy, and area under the curve (AUC) values above 0.9, we could obtain highly reliable land suitability probabilities. After introducing more driving factors related to bamboo forests, the prediction of bamboo forest changes will be more accurate. (3) The BPNN_CA_Markov coupling model could achieve high-precision simulation of LUCC at different times, with an overall accuracy greater than 70%, and the consistency of the LUCC simulation from one time to another also had good performance, with a figure of merit (FOM) of approximately 40%. (4) Under the future four RCP scenarios, bamboo forest evolution had similar spatial characteristics; that is, bamboo forests were projected to expand in the northeast, south, and southwest mountainous areas of Anji County, while bamboo forests were projected to decline mainly around the junction of the central and mountainous areas of Anji County. Comparing the simulation results of different ...
    Keywords land use and land cover change ; bamboo forest ; cellular automata (CA) ; Markov chain ; back propagation neural network (BPNN) ; RCP scenarios ; Geography (General) ; G1-922
    Subject code 550
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  4. Article ; Online: Estimating Forest Aboveground Carbon Storage in Hang-Jia-Hu Using Landsat TM/OLI Data and Random Forest Model

    Meng Zhang / Huaqiang Du / Guomo Zhou / Xuejian Li / Fangjie Mao / Luofan Dong / Junlong Zheng / Hua Liu / Zihao Huang / Shaobai He

    Forests, Vol 10, Iss 11, p

    2019  Volume 1004

    Abstract: Dynamic monitoring of carbon storage in forests resources is important for tracking ecosystem functionalities and climate change impacts. In this study, we used multi-year Landsat data combined with a Random Forest (RF) algorithm to estimate the forest ... ...

    Abstract Dynamic monitoring of carbon storage in forests resources is important for tracking ecosystem functionalities and climate change impacts. In this study, we used multi-year Landsat data combined with a Random Forest (RF) algorithm to estimate the forest aboveground carbon (AGC) in a forest area in China (Hang-Jia-Hu) and analyzed its spatiotemporal changes during the past two decades. Maximum likelihood classification was applied to make land-use maps. Remote sensing variables, such as the spectral band, vegetation indices, and derived texture features, were extracted from 20 Landsat TM and OLI images over five different years (2000, 2004, 2010, 2015, and 2018). These variables were subsequently selected according to their importance and subsequently used in the RF algorithm to build an estimation model of forest AGC. The results showed the following: (1) Verification of classification results showed maximum likelihood can extract land information effectively. Our land cover classification yielded overall accuracies between 86.86% and 89.47%. (2) Additionally, our RF models showed good performance in predicting forest AGC, with R 2 from 0.65 to 0.73 in the training and testing phase and a RMSE range between 3.18 and 6.66 Mg/ha. RMSEr in the testing phase ranged from 20.27 to 22.27 with a low model error. (3) The estimation results indicated that forest AGC in the past two decades increased with density at 10.14 Mg/ha, 21.63 Mg/ha, 26.39 Mg/ha, 29.25 Mg/ha, and 44.59 Mg/ha in 2000, 2004, 2010, 2015, and 2018. The total forest AGC storage had a growth rate of 285%. (4) Our study showed that, although forest area decreased in the study area during the time period under study, the total forest AGC increased due to an increment in forest AGC density. However, such an effect is overridden in the vicinity of cities by intense urbanization and the loss of forest covers. Our study demonstrated that the combined use of remote sensing data and machine learning techniques can improve our ability to track the forest changes ...
    Keywords landsat dataset ; forest agc estimation ; random forest ; spatiotemporal evolution ; Plant ecology ; QK900-989
    Subject code 333
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  5. Article ; Online: A Novel Query Strategy-Based Rank Batch-Mode Active Learning Method for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Classification

    Xin Luo / Huaqiang Du / Guomo Zhou / Xuejian Li / Fangjie Mao / Di’en Zhu / Yanxin Xu / Meng Zhang / Shaobai He / Zihao Huang

    Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 2234, p

    2021  Volume 2234

    Abstract: An informative training set is necessary for ensuring the robust performance of the classification of very-high-resolution remote sensing (VHRRS) images, but labeling work is often difficult, expensive, and time-consuming. This makes active learning (AL) ...

    Abstract An informative training set is necessary for ensuring the robust performance of the classification of very-high-resolution remote sensing (VHRRS) images, but labeling work is often difficult, expensive, and time-consuming. This makes active learning (AL) an important part of an image analysis framework. AL aims to efficiently build a representative and efficient library of training samples that are most informative for the underlying classification task, thereby minimizing the cost of obtaining labeled data. Based on ranked batch-mode active learning (RBMAL), this paper proposes a novel combined query strategy of spectral information divergence lowest confidence uncertainty sampling (SIDLC), called RBSIDLC. The base classifier of random forest (RF) is initialized by using a small initial training set, and each unlabeled sample is analyzed to obtain the classification uncertainty score. A spectral information divergence (SID) function is then used to calculate the similarity score, and according to the final score, the unlabeled samples are ranked in descending lists. The most “valuable” samples are selected according to ranked lists and then labeled by the analyst/expert (also called the oracle). Finally, these samples are added to the training set, and the RF is retrained for the next iteration. The whole procedure is iteratively implemented until a stopping criterion is met. The results indicate that RBSIDLC achieves high-precision extraction of urban land use information based on VHRRS; the accuracy of extraction for each land-use type is greater than 90%, and the overall accuracy (OA) is greater than 96%. After the SID replaces the Euclidean distance in the RBMAL algorithm, the RBSIDLC method greatly reduces the misclassification rate among different land types. Therefore, the similarity function based on SID performs better than that based on the Euclidean distance. In addition, the OA of RF classification is greater than 90%, suggesting that it is feasible to use RF to estimate the uncertainty score. ...
    Keywords spectral information divergence ; query strategy ; ranked batch-mode active learning ; Worldview-3 ; urban land use ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 006
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  6. Article ; Online: Intelligent Mapping of Urban Forests from High-Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery Using Object-Based U-Net-DenseNet-Coupled Network

    Shaobai He / Huaqiang Du / Guomo Zhou / Xuejian Li / Fangjie Mao / Di’en Zhu / Yanxin Xu / Meng Zhang / Zihao Huang / Hua Liu / Xin Luo

    Remote Sensing, Vol 12, Iss 3928, p

    2020  Volume 3928

    Abstract: The application of deep learning techniques, especially deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), in the intelligent mapping of very high spatial resolution (VHSR) remote sensing images has drawn much attention in the remote sensing community. However, ...

    Abstract The application of deep learning techniques, especially deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), in the intelligent mapping of very high spatial resolution (VHSR) remote sensing images has drawn much attention in the remote sensing community. However, the fragmented distribution of urban land use types and the complex structure of urban forests bring about a variety of challenges for urban land use mapping and the extraction of urban forests. Based on the DCNN algorithm, this study proposes a novel object-based U-net-DenseNet-coupled network (OUDN) method to realize urban land use mapping and the accurate extraction of urban forests. The proposed OUDN has three parts: the first part involves the coupling of the improved U-net and DenseNet architectures; then, the network is trained according to the labeled data sets, and the land use information in the study area is classified; the final part fuses the object boundary information obtained by object-based multiresolution segmentation into the classification layer, and a voting method is applied to optimize the classification results. The results show that (1) the classification results of the OUDN algorithm are better than those of U-net and DenseNet, and the average classification accuracy is 92.9%, an increase in approximately 3%; (2) for the U-net-DenseNet-coupled network (UDN) and OUDN, the urban forest extraction accuracies are higher than those of U-net and DenseNet, and the OUDN effectively alleviates the classification error caused by the fragmentation of urban distribution by combining object-based multiresolution segmentation features, making the overall accuracy (OA) of urban land use classification and the extraction accuracy of urban forests superior to those of the UDN algorithm; (3) based on the Spe-Texture (the spectral features combined with the texture features), the OA of the OUDN in the extraction of urban land use categories can reach 93.8%, thereby the algorithm achieved the accurate discrimination of different land use types, especially urban forests (99.7%). Therefore, this study provides a reference for feature setting for the mapping of urban land use information from VHSR imagery.
    Keywords urban forests ; OUDN algorithm ; deep learning ; object-based ; high spatial resolution remote sensing ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 710
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  7. Article ; Online: Spatiotemporal Evolution of Urban Expansion Using Landsat Time Series Data and Assessment of Its Influences on Forests

    Meng Zhang / Huaqiang Du / Fangjie Mao / Guomo Zhou / Xuejian Li / Luofan Dong / Junlong Zheng / Di’en Zhu / Hua Liu / Zihao Huang / Shaobai He

    ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Vol 9, Iss 2, p

    2020  Volume 64

    Abstract: Analysis of urban land use dynamics is essential for assessing ecosystem functionalities and climate change impacts. The focus of this study is on monitoring the characteristics of urban expansion in Hang-Jia-Hu and evaluating its influences on forests ... ...

    Abstract Analysis of urban land use dynamics is essential for assessing ecosystem functionalities and climate change impacts. The focus of this study is on monitoring the characteristics of urban expansion in Hang-Jia-Hu and evaluating its influences on forests by applying 30-m multispectral Landsat data and a machine learning algorithm. Firstly, remote sensed images were preprocessed with radiation calibration, atmospheric correction and topographic correction. Then, the C5.0 decision tree was used to establish classification trees and then applied to make land use maps. Finally, spatiotemporal changes were analyzed through dynamic degree and land use transfer matrix. In addition, average land use transfer probability matrix (ATPM) was utilized for the prediction of land use area in the next 20 years. The results show that: (1) C5.0 decision tree performed with precise accuracy in land use classification, with an average total accuracy and kappa coefficient of more than 90.04% and 0.87. (2) During the last 20 years, land use in Hang-Jia-Hu has changed extensively. Urban area expanded from 5.84% in 1995 to 21.32% in 2015, which has brought about enormous impacts on cultivated land, with 198,854 hectares becoming urban, followed by forests with 19,823 hectares. (3) Land use area prediction based on the ATPM revealed that urbanization will continue to expand at the expense of cultivated land, but the impact on the forests will be greater than the past two decades. Rationality of urban land structure distribution is important for economic and social development. Therefore, remotely sensed technology combined with machine learning algorithms is of great significance to the dynamic detection of resources in the process of urbanization.
    Keywords landsat data ; urban expansion ; lucc ; forest ; hang-jia-hu ; Geography (General) ; G1-922
    Subject code 710 ; 910
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  8. Article ; Online: Application of Convolutional Neural Network on Lei Bamboo Above-Ground-Biomass (AGB) Estimation Using Worldview-2

    Luofan Dong / Huaqiang Du / Ning Han / Xuejian Li / Di’en Zhu / Fangjie Mao / Meng Zhang / Junlong Zheng / Hua Liu / Zihao Huang / Shaobai He

    Remote Sensing, Vol 12, Iss 6, p

    2020  Volume 958

    Abstract: Above-ground biomass (AGB) directly relates to the productivity of forests. Precisely, AGB mapping for regional forests based on very high resolution (VHR) imagery is widely needed for evaluation of productivity. However, the diversity of variables and ... ...

    Abstract Above-ground biomass (AGB) directly relates to the productivity of forests. Precisely, AGB mapping for regional forests based on very high resolution (VHR) imagery is widely needed for evaluation of productivity. However, the diversity of variables and algorithms and the difficulties inherent in high resolution optical imagery make it complex. In this paper, we explored the potentials of the state-of-art algorithm convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which are widely used for its high-level representation, but rarely applied for AGB estimation. Four experiments were carried out to compare the performance of CNNs and other state-of-art Machine Learning (ML) algorithms: (1) performance of CNN using bands, (2) performance of Random Forest (RF), support vector regression (SVR), artificial neural network (ANN) on bands, and vegetation indices (VIs). (3) Performance of RF, SVR, and ANN on gray-level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM), and exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA), and (4) performance of RF, SVR, and ANN based on all combined data and ESDA+VIs. CNNs reached satisfactory results (with R 2 = 0.943) even with limited input variables (i.e., only bands). In comparison, RF and SVR with elaborately designed data obtained slightly better accuracy than CNN. For examples, RF based on GLCM textures reached an R 2 of 0.979 and RF based on all combined data reached a close R 2 of 0.974. However, the results of ANN were much worse (with the best R 2 of 0.885).
    Keywords deep learning (dl) ; machine learning (ml) ; above ground biomass (agb) ; very high-resolution imagery ; textures ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 006 ; 333
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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