Estimation of the Grassland Aboveground Biomass of the Inner Mongolia Plateau Using the Simulated Spectra of Sentinel-2 Images

doi:10.3390/rs12244155

	Estimation of the Grassland Aboveground Biomass of the Inner Mongolia Plateau Using the Simulated Spectra of Sentinel-2 Images
	Pang, Haiyang 1,3; Zhang, Aiwu 1,3; Kang, Xiaoyan 1,3; He, Nianpeng 2; Dong, Gang 4
刊名	REMOTE SENSING
	2020-12-01
卷号	12 期号:24 页码:22
关键词	aboveground biomass multispectrum hyperspectral Sentinel-2 the simulated spectrum estimation
DOI	10.3390/rs12244155
通讯作者	Zhang, Aiwu(zhangaiwu@cnu.edu.cn)
英文摘要	An accurate assessment of the grassland aboveground biomass (AGB) is important for analyzing terrestrial ecosystem structures and functions, estimating grassland primary productivity, and monitoring climate change and carbon/nitrogen circulation on a global scale. Multispectral satellites with wide-width advantages, such as Sentinel-2, have become the inevitable choice for the large-scale monitoring of grassland biomass on regional and global scales. However, the spectral resolution of multispectral satellites is generally low, which limits the inversion accuracy of grassland AGB and restricts further application in large-scale grassland monitoring. For this reason, a satellite-scale simulated spectra method was proposed to enhance the spectral information of the Sentinel-2 data, and a simulated spectrum (SS) was constructed using this algorithm. Then, the raw spectrum (RS) of Sentinel-2 and the SS were used as data sources to calculate the vegetation indices (RS-VIs and SS-VIs, which represent vegetation indices calculated using RS and SS data, respectively), and the multi-granularity spectral segmentation algorithm (MGSS) was employed to extract spectral segmentation features (RS-SF and SS-SF, which represent segmentation features extracted by RS and SS data, respectively). Following this, these spectral features (RS-SF, SS-SF, RS-VIs, and SS-VIs) were used to estimate AGB by partial least-squares regression (PLSR) and multiple stepwise regression (MSR) models. Finally, the spatial distribution law and the reasons for the latitude zone of the Inner Mongolia Plateau were analyzed, based on precipitation, the average temperature, topography, etc. The conclusions are as follows. Firstly, the SS has more spectral information and its sensitivity to biomass is higher than the RS of Sentinel-2 in some bands, and the correlation between the SS-VIs and biomass is higher than that of the RS-VIs. Secondly, among the spectral features, the most accurate AGB estimation was obtained by SS-SF, which gave R-2 = 0.95. The root mean square error (RMSE) was 10.86 g/m(2) and the estimate accuracy (EA) was 82.84% in the MSR model. Additionally, RMSE = 10.89 g/m(2) and EA = 82.78% in the PLSR model. Compared with the traditional estimation methods using RS and VI, R-2 was increased by at least 0.2, RMSE was reduced by at least 14.08 g/m(2), and EA was increased by 22.26%. Therefore, the simulated spectra method can help improve the estimation accuracy of AGB, and a new idea about regional and global large-scale biomass acquisition is provided.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[42071303] ; Special Foundation for Science and Technology Basic Resource Investigation Program of China[2019FY101304]
WOS关键词	CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT ESTIMATION ; ESTIMATING PLANT TRAITS ; VEGETATION INDEXES ; NITROGEN-CONTENT ; REFLECTANCE ; COVER ; MODEL ; NDVI ; SOIL ; GROWTH
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Remote Sensing
语种	英语
出版者	MDPI
WOS记录号	WOS:000603287700001
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Special Foundation for Science and Technology Basic Resource Investigation Program of China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/137681]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Zhang, Aiwu
作者单位	1.Capital Normal Univ, Key Lab 3D Informat Acquisit & Applicat, Minist Educ, Beijing 100048, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Ecosyst Network Observat & Modeling, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 3.Capital Normal Univ, Engn Res Ctr Spatial Informat Technol, Minist Educ, Beijing 100048, Peoples R China 4.Shanxi Univ, Sch Life Sci, Taiyuan 030006, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Pang, Haiyang,Zhang, Aiwu,Kang, Xiaoyan,et al. Estimation of the Grassland Aboveground Biomass of the Inner Mongolia Plateau Using the Simulated Spectra of Sentinel-2 Images[J]. REMOTE SENSING,2020,12(24):22.
APA	Pang, Haiyang,Zhang, Aiwu,Kang, Xiaoyan,He, Nianpeng,&Dong, Gang.(2020).Estimation of the Grassland Aboveground Biomass of the Inner Mongolia Plateau Using the Simulated Spectra of Sentinel-2 Images.REMOTE SENSING,12(24),22.
MLA	Pang, Haiyang,et al."Estimation of the Grassland Aboveground Biomass of the Inner Mongolia Plateau Using the Simulated Spectra of Sentinel-2 Images".REMOTE SENSING 12.24(2020):22.