globalchange  > 影响、适应和脆弱性
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13904
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85031104924
论文题名:
A large-area, spatially continuous assessment of land cover map error and its impact on downstream analyses
作者: Estes L.; Chen P.; Debats S.; Evans T.; Ferreira S.; Kuemmerle T.; Ragazzo G.; Sheffield J.; Wolf A.; Wood E.; Caylor K.
刊名: Global Change Biology
ISSN: 13541013
出版年: 2018
卷: 24, 期:1
起始页码: 322
结束页码: 337
语种: 英语
英文关键词: agent-based model ; agriculture ; bias ; carbon ; crop yield ; evapotranspiration ; land cover ; remote sensing
Scopus关键词: agricultural land ; carbon cycle ; crop yield ; error analysis ; evapotranspiration ; land cover ; mapping ; remote sensing ; spatial analysis ; crop ; crop production ; environmental monitoring ; environmental protection ; forest ; geographic information system ; geographic mapping ; procedures ; South Africa ; standards ; statistics and numerical data ; Conservation of Natural Resources ; Crop Production ; Crops, Agricultural ; Environmental Monitoring ; Forests ; Geographic Information Systems ; Geographic Mapping ; South Africa
英文摘要: Land cover maps increasingly underlie research into socioeconomic and environmental patterns and processes, including global change. It is known that map errors impact our understanding of these phenomena, but quantifying these impacts is difficult because many areas lack adequate reference data. We used a highly accurate, high-resolution map of South African cropland to assess (1) the magnitude of error in several current generation land cover maps, and (2) how these errors propagate in downstream studies. We first quantified pixel-wise errors in the cropland classes of four widely used land cover maps at resolutions ranging from 1 to 100 km, and then calculated errors in several representative “downstream” (map-based) analyses, including assessments of vegetative carbon stocks, evapotranspiration, crop production, and household food security. We also evaluated maps’ spatial accuracy based on how precisely they could be used to locate specific landscape features. We found that cropland maps can have substantial biases and poor accuracy at all resolutions (e.g., at 1 km resolution, up to ∼45% underestimates of cropland (bias) and nearly 50% mean absolute error (MAE, describing accuracy); at 100 km, up to 15% underestimates and nearly 20% MAE). National-scale maps derived from higher-resolution imagery were most accurate, followed by multi-map fusion products. Constraining mapped values to match survey statistics may be effective at minimizing bias (provided the statistics are accurate). Errors in downstream analyses could be substantially amplified or muted, depending on the values ascribed to cropland-adjacent covers (e.g., with forest as adjacent cover, carbon map error was 200%–500% greater than in input cropland maps, but ∼40% less for sparse cover types). The average locational error was 6 km (600%). These findings provide deeper insight into the causes and potential consequences of land cover map error, and suggest several recommendations for land cover map users. © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/110597
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作者单位: Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States; Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States; Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States; Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States; GeoTerraImage, Pretoria, South Africa; Geography Department, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Integrative Research Institute for Transformations in Human-Environment Systems, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; Arable Labs, Princeton, NJ, United States; Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States; Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

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Estes L.,Chen P.,Debats S.,et al. A large-area, spatially continuous assessment of land cover map error and its impact on downstream analyses[J]. Global Change Biology,2018-01-01,24(1)
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