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, 2023, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 97-112

Development of pseudo-surfaces for ground cover monitoring: the case of western Russian Karelia

V.V. Tarasenko 1 , B.V. Raevsky 1 
1 Karelian Research Centre RAS, Petrozavodsk, Russia
Accepted: 23.03.2023
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2023-20-2-97-112
The results of supervised classification of temporary alternate Landsat images (Landsat ET 1988 and Landsat OLI 2021) were treated by generating a number of pseudo-surfaces. Decoding of multispectral space images was carried out by means of the classic minimum distance method based on specially selected training sample (392 regions of interest), which was subdivided into 28 classes and 9 groups of them. This classification gave the results with a comparatively high level of reliability with 71–77 % of overall accuracy and 0.62–0.65 of Cohen’s kappa. A method for generating pseudo-surfaces by groups of vegetation cover and man-made zones classes was developed and applied to the parts of Kostomuksha municipality, Kalevalsky and Muezersky regions’ territories (totally about 800 thousand hectares). The original method for creating pseudo-surfaces was realized by forming regular grid (100×100 m) where each cell centroid contains information about the percentage of objects’ area belonging to various groups. Particularly a number of pseudo-surfaces have been created for various types of vegetation communities of the Kostomukshsky Strict Nature Reserve. The results of applying pseudo-surfaces for native vegetation types and human transformed areas were discussed addressing the problems of monitoring the territory which combines deeply transformed zones and natural boreal landscapes. The obtained results can be used to form actual and reliable thematic cartographic products using GIS technologies, including interactive maps and publishing data in the Internet.
Keywords: ground cover monitoring, pseudo-surfaces, remote sensing data, special protected area, GIS technologies, thematic mapping, interactive maps
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