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. 157-168

Investigation of forest growing stock volume estimation possibilities over Russian Primorsky Krai region using Proba-V satellite data

V.O. Zharko 1 , S.A. Bartalev 1 , V.A. Egorov 1 
1 Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
Accepted: 23.11.2017
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2018-15-1-157-168
This paper presents a method for forest growing stock volume (GSV) estimation using 100 m Proba-V satellite data, acquired during the period of persistent snow cover. The method is based on the approximation of the relation between GSV and red-band snow-covered surface reflectance. The territory of Russian Primorsky Krai federal subject is selected as a test region. A method for production of Proba-V data-based cloud-free composite images, providing the info on the spatial distribution of snow-covered surface spectral reflectance, is described. An algorithm to prepare a dataset on spatial distribution of various land cover types (using satellite data-based vegetation maps) and terrain characteristics (using digital elevation model data) is presented. This dataset is used to stratify the territory into areas, uniform with respect to the solar illumination conditions, including shadowed northern and illuminated southern slopes, as well as approximately horizontal sites, with subsequent independent processing of satellite data within each stratum. Parameterization of a model, approximating GSV reflectance relation, was performed separately for each forest cover type found on the study area based on a freely available 1 km GSV map under the assumption of inverse GSV-reflectance dependency. Approximation results are used to obtain GSV estimates derived from Proba-V data based snow-covered surface reflectance composite image. Comparison of Proba-V data based GSV estimates with state forest account data at the level of Primorsky Krai forest management units demonstrates determination coefficient R2 = 0.96.
Keywords: remote sensing, forests, growing stock volume, GSV, Proba-V
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