Title :
Participative forest in-situ measurements for biomass mapping in satellite images over Durango State, Mexico
Author :
Matthieu Molinier;Timo Toivanen;Tuomas Home;Carlos López-Sánchez;Javier Corral;Daniel Vega
Author_Institution :
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Environmental data solutions, P.O. Box 1000, FI-02044 VTT Finland
fDate :
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Citizen Science, propelled by the growing popularity of smartphones, can provide valuable reference information for remote sensing image analysis. We demonstrate that the Relasphone, a biomass measuring application previously developed and tested in boreal forests of Finland, can be adapted to temperate-cold pine forests in Durango State, Mexico. Relasphone measurements were in good agreement with reference data over 55 plots (R2 = 0.94), and have been used to produce a biomass map over Durango from a Landsat 8 image. The results suggest the Relasphone can be easily deployed in other biomes.
Keywords :
"Satellites","Biomass","Remote sensing","Atmospheric measurements","Earth","Vegetation","Particle measurements"
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2015 IEEE International
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-7003
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2015.7327054