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, 2020, Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 142-154

The effect of stand parameters on the spectral response of forests (case study of the south of the Central Russian Upland)

E.A. Terekhin 1 
1 Belgorod State National Research University, Belgorod, Russia
Accepted: 22.10.2020
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2020-17-7-142-154
An estimation of the relationship between stand parameters and spectral response of the forest derived from Landsat ETM+ and Landsat OLI data was carried out. The study was conducted for broadleaf forest in the south of the Central Russian Upland. The efficiency of spectral ranges for the analysis of forest stand parameters was studied. The SWIR-range reflectances (1.55–1.75 μm) most strongly correlate with age and height of forest. The increase in forest age causes a decrease in the SWIR reflectances for the logarithmic dependence. The relationship between forests stand height and infrared reflectances is described by a logistic curve. The correlation coefficient between actual and calculated height values is more than 0.8. Using the established dependence, the changes in forest stands height in the south of the Central Russian Upland in the period from the mid-1980s to the end of the 2010s have been estimated. The tendency of increase in the average stand height and decrease in its standard deviation during the study period was established. An increase in average stand height indicates an increase of forest average age.
Keywords: forest, forest stand parameters, spectral response, Landsat, long-term changes, forest-steppe, Central Russian Upland
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