DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2014.04.017
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84904755359
论文题名: Atmospheric effects on the performance and threshold extrapolation of multi-temporal Landsat derived dNBR for burn severity assessment
作者: Fang L ; , Yang J
刊名: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
ISSN: 15698432
出版年: 2014
卷: 33, 期: 1 起始页码: 10
结束页码: 20
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Atmospheric correction
; Burn severity
; Chinese boreal forest
; dNBR
; Landsat
; Optimality
Scopus关键词: accuracy assessment
; boreal forest
; climate change
; climate effect
; correction
; correlation
; data set
; Landsat
; mapping
; performance assessment
; satellite imagery
; wildfire
; China
英文摘要: The Landsat derived differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR) is widely used for burn severity assessments. Studies of regional wildfire trends in response to climate change require consistency in dNBR mapping across multiple image dates, which may vary in atmospheric condition. Conversion of continuous dNBR images into categorical burn severity maps often requires extrapolation of dNBR thresholds from present fires for which field severity measurements such as Composite Burn Index (CBI) data are available, to historical fires for which CBI data are typically unavailable. Although differential atmospheric effects between image collection dates could lead to biased estimates of historical burn severity patterns, little is known concerning the influence of atmospheric effects on dNBR performance and threshold extrapolation. In this study, we compared the performance of dNBR calculated from six atmospheric correction methods using an optimality approach. The six correction methods included one partial (Top of atmosphere reflectance, TOA), two absolute, and three relative methods. We assessed how the correction methods affected the CBI-dNBR correlation and burn severity mapping in a Chinese boreal forest fire which occurred in 2010. The dNBR thresholds of the 2010 fire for each of the correction methods werethen extrapolated to classify a historical fire from 2000. Classification accuracies of threshold extrapolations were assessed based on Cohen's Kappa analysis with 73 field-based validation plots. Our study foundmost correction methods improved mean dNBR optimality of the two fires. The relative correction methods generated 32% higher optimality than both TOA and absolute correction methods. All the correction methods yielded high CBI-dNBR correlations (mean R2= 0.847) but distinctly different dNBR thresh-olds for severity classification of 2010 fire. Absolute correction methods could substantially increaseoptimality score, but were insufficient to provide a consistent scale of radiometric condition between multi-temporal Landsat images, which resulted in lower severity classification accuracies (Kappa = 0.53)than those relative correction methods (Kappa = 0.72) for the 2000 fire. Consistent radiometric response in remote sensing datasets proved essential for accuracy in regional burn severity trends monitoring. Extrapolation of empirical dNBR thresholds to historical conditions without relative normalization willlikely lead to biased burn severity classifications. © 2014 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/79696
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作者单位: State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
Recommended Citation:
Fang L,, Yang J. Atmospheric effects on the performance and threshold extrapolation of multi-temporal Landsat derived dNBR for burn severity assessment[J]. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation,2014-01-01,33(1)