Combining Landsat TM/ETM+ and ALOS AVNIR-2 Satellite Data for Tropical Forest Cover Change Detection

Author

Vollmar, M. ; Rasi, Rastislav ; Beuchle, Rene ; Simonetti, D. ; Stibig, H.-J. ; Achard, Frederic

Author_Institution

Inst. for Environ. & Sustainability, Joint Res. Centre of the Eur. Comm., Ispra, Italy

Volume

6

Issue

1

fYear

2013

fDate

Feb. 2013

Firstpage

102

Lastpage

109

Abstract

The European Commission funded Tropical Ecosystem Environment Observation by Satellite (TREES) project aims to assess the forest cover and its changes within the pan- tropical belt. Statistics for the monitoring target periods 1990, 2000 and 2010 are derived from analyzing a systematic sample set of satellite imagery mainly from the Landsat TM and ETM+ sensors. To reach full coverage of all sample sites for the year 2010 epoch and to ensure data continuity for possible future epochs the usage of alternative satellite data is inevitable. In this study the replacement of Landsat data with ALOS AVNIR-2 data was tested. Adaptations of the existing processing chain are presented as well as the results of an accuracy assessment. The results show that AVNIR-2 data are generally suitable to substitute Landsat data in this context.

Keywords

artificial satellites; forestry; vegetation mapping; AD 1990 to 2010; ALOS AVNIR-2 satellite data; European Commission; Landsat ETM+ sensor; Landsat TM sensor; Landsat TM/ETM+; Landsat data; TREES Satellite project; Tropical Ecosystem Environment Observation; tropical forest cover change detection; Accuracy; Asia; Earth; Remote sensing; Satellites; Standards; Vegetation; ALOS-AVNIR2; Landsat; forest monitoring; image classification; object-based change detection; remote sensing; tropics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1939-1404

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2241017

Filename

6469181