ISSN 2070-7401 (Print), ISSN 2411-0280 (Online)
Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2018, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 89-100

Improving forest monitoring by using cloud technologies as an element of sustainable forest management

A.P. Bogdanov 1, 2 , A.A. Karpov 1, 2 , N.A. Demina 1 , R.A. Aleshko 2 
1 Northern Research Institute of Forestry, Arkhangelsk, Russia
2 Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russia
Accepted: 27.11.2017
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2018-15-1-89-100
At the present time, forest monitoring is conducted in various ways. The main goal of forest monitoring that uses remote sensing technologies is to assess the state of the forest. The assessment of reforestation is also one of the tasks of forest monitoring on the basis of this form of technology. Satellite monitoring allows assessing forest recovery in clean cut and burnt areas for their conversion into forest areas with successful reforestation and appointment of cleaning cutting in the future. To distinguish forest cutting, burnt areas and the assessment of reforestation, it is possible to use spectral indices. In this article, an analysis of dynamic patterns of indices SWVI, NBR, and NDVI in forests under negative effect (i.e. cutting, burnt areas) was conducted. Landsat 5 and 8 satellite images were used for the analysis of forest environment changes at different times. The calculation and analysis of the data was performed using the Google Earth Engine platform. This platform uses cloud technology that allows automatic and accelerated processing of large amounts of data and satellite images. Furthermore, field studies of forest areas exposed to low fire and clean cutting were conducted in the framework of this research. Sample areas were located in the Obozerskoe and Krasnoborskoe forests of the Arkhangelsk region. This research showed that it is possible to use spectral indices to monitor and assess reforestation.
Keywords: remote monitoring methods, decryption, multispectral space imagery, forest pathological condition, vegetation index, SWVI; NBR, NDVI, Google Earth Engine; Arkhangelsk region
Full text

References:

  1. Andreeva N. M., Bartalev S. A., Basova E. V., Bugaeva K. S., Butusov O. B., Golovanov A. S., Gromtsev A. N., Danilina D. M., Drobushevskaya O. V., Ershov D. V., Efremov S. P., Efremova T. T., Zhirin V. M., Zukert N. V., Isaev A. S., Knyazeva S. V., Kozlov D. N., Konovalova M. E., Konovalova M. E., Korzukhin M. D., Korovin G. N., Kofman G. B., Koshkarova V. L., Kravchenko A. V., Kurkhinen Yu. P., Levitskaya N. N., Loupian E. A., Lyamtsev N. I., Nazimova D. I., Nefed’ev V. V., Ogureeva G. N., Pesterova O. A., Pimenov A. V., Puzachenko M. Yu., Pshegusov R. Kh., Sazonov S. V., Sedel’nikova T. S., Tembotova F. A., Tikhonova E. V., Tlupova Yu. M., Tsaregorodtsev V. G., Chernen’kova T. V., Eidlina S. P., Raznoobrazie i dinamika lesnykh ekosistem Rossii (Variety and dynamics of forest ecosystems in Russia), CEPF RAS, Vol. 1, Moscow: Izd. KMK, 2012, 461 p.
  2. Baranchikov Yu. N., Bobrinskii A. N., Golubev A. V., Gordienko P. V., Denisov B. S., Zhirin B. M., Kondakov Yu. L., Lyamtsev N. I., Malysheva N. V., Maslov A. D., Matusevich L. S., Mozolevskaya E. G., Pet’ko V. M., Sokolova E. S., Tuzov V. K., Metody monitoringa vrediteley i bolezney lesa (Methods for monitoring pests and diseases of forests), V. K. Tuzov (ed.), Moscow: VNIILM, 2004, 200 p.
  3. Bartalev S. A., Stytsenko F. V., Egorov V. A., Loupian E. A., Sputnikovaya otsenka gibeli lesov Rossii ot pozharov (Remote sensing for estimation of forest deaths in Russia from fires), Lesovedenie, 2015, No. 2, pp. 83–94.
  4. Vorob’ev O. N., Kurbanov E. A., Polevshchikova Yu. A., Lezhnin S. A., Otsenka dinamiki i narushennosti lesnogo pokrova v Srednem Povolzh’e po snimkam Landsat (Assessment of dynamics and disturbance of forest cover in the Middle Povolzhje by Landsat images), Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondi­rovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2016, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 124–134.
  5. Interim Rules of Forest Pathology Monitoring, Roslesozaschita (Russian Center for Forest Protection) Order No. 113-r, June 19, 2015.
  6. Knyazeva S. V., Eidlina S. P., Zhirin V. M., Distantsionnaya otsenka izmeneniya sostoyaniya lesnykh ekosistem za 20-letnii period posle massovogo razmnozheniya sibirskogo shelkopryada (Remote assessment of changes in the state of forest ecosystems over a 20-year period after mass breeding of the Siberian silkworm), Aerokosmicheskie metody i geoinformatsionnye tekhnologii v lesovedenii, lesnom khozyaistve i ekologii (Remote Sensing and GIS-technologies in Forestry and Forest Management), Proc. 6th All-Russia Science Conference, Moscow: CEPF RAS, 2016, p. 126.
  7. Koroleva N. V., Ershov D. V., Otsenka pogreshnosti opredeleniya ploshchadey vetrovalov po kosmicheskim izobrazheniyam vysokogo prostranstvennogo razresheniya Landsat-TM (Assessment of an error of determination of areas of windfalls using space images of high spatial resolution of Landsat-TM), Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2012, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 80–86.
  8. Krylov A. M., Sobolev A. A., Vladimirova N. A., Vyyavlenie ochagov koroeda-tipografa v Moskovskoy oblasti s ispol’zovaniem snimkov Landsat (Revealing of centers ips typographus in Moscow region with use of pictures Landsat), Vestnik Moskovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta lesa. Lesnoi vestnik, 2011, No. 4, pp. 54–60.
  9. Krylov A. M., Vladimirova N. A., Distantsionnyi monitoring sostoyaniya lesov po dannym kosmicheskoi s˝emki (Remote sensing data for forest monitoring), Geomatika, 2011, No. 1, pp. 53–57.
  10. Krylov A. M., Vladimirova N. A., Malakhova E. G., Vyyavlenie i otsenka ploshchadei katastroficheskikh vetrovalov 2009–2010 gg. po dannym kosmicheskoi s˝emki (Identification and assessment of forest areas damaged by windfalls in 2009–2010 by means of remote sensing), Izvestiya Sankt-Peterburgskoi lesotekhnicheskoi akademii, 2012, Vol. 200, pp. 197–207.
  11. Forestry Code of the Russian Federation, No. 230-FZ of 04.12.2006, Rev. 03.07.2016.
  12. Malakhova E. G., Krylov A. M., Vladimirova N. A., Yagunov M. N., Ershov D. V., Koroleva N. V., Opyt primeneniya distantsionnykh nablyudenii dlya vyyavleniya povrezhdenii lesov (The experience in remote control techiques for revealing the forest damages), Aerokosmicheskie metody i geoinformatsionnye tekhnologii v lesovedenii, lesnom khozyaistve i ekologii (Remote Sensing and GIS-Technologies in Forestry and Forest Management), Proc. 6th All-Russia Science Conference, Moscow: CEPF RAS, 2016, p. 47.
  13. Pravila lesovosstanovleniya (Forest Restoration Rules), No. 183, 2007, July16.
  14. Soldatov V. V., Yagunov M. N., Golubev D. V., Sashko E. V., Distantsionnyi lesopatologicheskii monitoring lesov Krasnoyarskogo kraya (Remote forest pathological monitoring of forests of the Krasnoyarsk Territory), Vserossiiskaya nauchno-prakticheskaya konferentsiya (All-Russia Science and Application Conference), Proc. Conf., Zheleznogorsk, 2013, pp. 37–42.
  15. Stytsenko F. V., Razrabotka i primenenie metodiki i avtomatizirovannoy tekhnologii otsenki pirogennoy gibeli lesov na osnove sputnikovykh dannykh. Dis. kand. tekhn. nauk (Development and application of methods and automated technology for assessing pyrogenic forest deaths based on remote sensing. Cand. tech. sci. thesis), Moscow, 2016, 131 p.
  16. Sukhikh V. I., Aerokosmicheskie metody v lesnom khozyaistve i landshaftnom stroitel’stve (Aerospace methods in forestry and landscape construction), Yoshkar-Ola: MarGTU, 2005, 392 p.
  17. Khamedov V. A., Razrabotka metodiki monitoringa lesnykh zemel’ na osnove kosmicheskikh snimkov opticheskogo i radarnogo diapazonov. Dis. kand. tekhn. nauk (Development of methods for monitoring forest lands based on satellite images of the optical and radar ranges. Cand. tech. sci. thesis), Novosibirsk: 2016, 121 p.
  18. Khamedov V. A., Mazurov B. T., Razrabotka metodicheskikh voprosov sozdaniya sistemy sputnikovogo monitoringa sostoyaniya lesnykh ekosistem v usloviyakh vozdeistviya neftegazovogo kompleksa territorii Zapadnoi Sibiri (Development of methodological problems of creating satellite monitoring of forest ecosystems under the impact oil and gas sector of West Siberia), Vestnik SGUGiT, 2015, No. 3(31), pp. 16–31.
  19. Cherepanov A. S., Tekhnologiya vyyavleniya medlennykh izmenenii v lesakh po mul’tispektral’nym kosmicheskim snimkam (na primere vymokaniya lesov) (Forest slow changes detection technology through multispectral remote sensing data (by the example of forest damping-off)), Geomatika, 2009, No. 3, pp. 66–75.