Calibration and verification of remote sensing data for east Asia migratory plague locust reed habitat monitoring

This paper introduces our recent research on using remote sensing technology to identify features of locust breeding habitats in reed vegetation in the Dagang reservoir area of Tianjin, which involved the calibration and verification work in advance of a potential operational system. The general objectives of the study were: (1) to elaborate a reliability testing of LAI/Biomass and field spectral based vegetation estimation specifically in relation to migratory locust densely populated breeding areas; (2) to calibrate and compare the TM NDVI and ARVI vegetation index data which was acquired during the same period as the field data collection; (3) to generate a classification scheme for the use and interpretation of greenness in relation to migratory locust habitats in eastern China.