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Landcover Mapping
Landcover Mapping
Landcover mapping
In this lesson you will get to know
Spatial properties
Spectral properties
Radiometric properties
- Orbit geometry
- Coverage area
- Spatial resolution
- Revisit time
- Number of bands
- Width of bands
- Position of bands
- Radiometric resolution
- Gain setting
- Signal-to-noise ratio
Landsat-1,-3 configuration
Landsat-1 to -7 missions
Orbit
(days)
RBV
Bands
MSS
1 1972-1978
18
1-3
4-7
2 1975-1982
18
1-3
4-7
3 1978-1983
18
A-D
4-7(8)
4 1982-1987
16
1-4
1-7
5 1984-
16
1-4
1-7
No
Use
6 Launch failure 16
7 199916
8 2013
16
TM
1-7/ETM
1-7/ETM+
1-9/OLI
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Mission
1,2
MSS
3
1-5
TM
3
4,5
Sensitivity
(m)
0.475-0.575
0.580-0.680
0.690-0.830
0.505-0.750
0.5-0.6
0.6-0.7
0.7-0.8
0.8-1.1
10.4-12.6
0.45-0.52
0.52-0.60
0.63-0.69
0.76-0.90
1.55-1.75
10.4-12.5
2.08-2.35
Resolution
(m)
80
80
80
30
79/82
79/82
79/82
79/82
240
30
30
30
30
30
120
30
Mission
7
OLI
TIRS
Sensitivity
(m)
0.45-0.52
0.53-0.61
0.63-0.69
0.78-0.90
1.55-1.75
10.4-12.5
2.09-2.35
0.52-0.90
0.43-0.45
0.45-0.52
0.52-0.60
0.63-0.68
0.85-0.89
1.56-1.66
2.10-2.30
0.50-0.68
1.36-1.39
Resolution
(m)
30
30
30
30
30
60
30
15
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
15
30
10.6-11.2
11.5-12.5
100
100
NASA (2014)
Lillesand et al.
(2004)
Name
0.45-0.52
Blue
0.52-0.60
Green
0.63-0.69
Red
0.76-0.90
Near-IR
1.55-1.75
Mid-IR
10.4-12.5
2.08-2.35
Example applications
Coastal water mapping
Vegetation discrimination
Plant species
differentiation
Band
(m)
Resolution
(m)
Swath
(km)
panchromatic
2.5/5
60-80
B1, B2, B3
10
B4
20
HRS
panchromatic
5/10
120
Vegetation
1000
2250
HRG
B0: blue; B1: green; B2: red; B3: near-IR; B4: Mid-IR
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Launch
1988
1985
1996
1999
2000
1999
2000
2001
2003
Country, remarks
India
SU
Japan
China, Brazil
USA, hyperspectral
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
Commercial
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Selected
high-resolution
satellite systems
Level
1B
3A
Description
RapidEye Basic Product Radiometric and sensor corrections applied to the data.
On-board spacecraft attitude and ephemeris applied to the data.
RapidEye Ortho Product Radiometric, sensor and geometric corrections applied
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to the data. All products have been rectified using a DTED Level 1 SRTM DEM or
better, and with appropriate ground control can meet an accuracy of 6m 1-sigma (12.7
m CE90). The highest accuracy achieved by these products will meet 1:25,000 NMAS
standards
RapidEye
specification
Standard Image Product
Specification
Spectral Bands
Ground Sampling
Distance (Nadir)
Pixel Size
(orthorectified)
Swath Width
Revisit Time
Equator crossing
time
Image Capture
Capacity
Specification
Blue
Green
Red
Red Edge
NIR
6.5 m
440-510 nm
520-590 nm
630-685 nm
690-730 nm
760-850 nm
5m
77 km
DAILY
11:00 a.m. (approximately)
4 Million km DAILY
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5m Pixels
Approximate costs of
satellite data
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Data
Landsat (MSS)
Euro/km2
0.01
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Landsat (TM)
0.12
0.50
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Rees (2004)
NIR
0.68
0.13
Rees (2004)
Vegetation indices
Difference Vegetation
Index
DV I = N IR
N IR
RV I =
N IR
R
N DV I =
SW
NIR
IR
+
N DW I =
NSW
IR IR
+ SW
+ IR
GV I =
R + M IR
NDVI of Europe
1-Week Composite
04.07.2005 - 10.07.2005
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NDVI of Europe
1-Week Composite
14.04.2014 - 20.04.2014
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Silage Maize
0.0
0.0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
NDVI RapidEye
Relationship
measured
GVF vegetation
and NDVI calculated from RapidEye
GVF: fractionFig.of6.ground
areabetween
covered
by green
Imukova et al. (2015)
225
images. The black line shows the relationship between both variables following the
Gutman and Ignatov (1998) approach. The red line shows the linear regression of
GVF from ground truth measurements on NDVI calculated from RapidEye images.
(For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is
referred to the web version of this article.)
250
on photographs taken
gau in 2012 and 2013.
legend, the reader is
Fig. 11. Comparison of ground truth data with satellite data for the municipality
will have a developed ground-covering canopy only as late as in
Sinsheim. The black line belongs to the GVF dynamics which is used in the NOAH
June or July. Leaves of these crops are still green in August and
model by default. In this case, GVF was derived from satellite images with low resSeptember, while the early covering crops are already harvested.
olution (15 15 m2 ) what leads to mixed GVF pixel values because the pixel cover
Both phenological types show very pronounced differences with
different land-use types. The red line is the areal weighted average GVF which was
regard to the Bowen ratio or rather energy partitioning in the
calculated with account of spatial distribution of croplands for the municipality Sinsheim. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader
course of the season (Wizemann et al., 2014). Fig. 10 shows the
is referred to the web version of this article.)
GVF dynamics of the early- and late-covering crops based on the
7. (a) RapidEye image (RGB) of the central study site Katharinentalerhof taken on June 30, 2012 [DOY: 182]. (b) Green vegetation fraction (GVF) map derived from the
Gaussian fits shown in Fig. 9. The early-covering crops have quite
RapidEye image. The more green the pixel, the higher the GVF. Bluish pixels indicate areas almost void of vegetation.
high GVFs in April and May and reach their maxima in June. In July,
the default settings of NOAH-MP LSM (Fig. 11). The land use data
the GVF declines strongly until it is in the range of 0.1 in August
were taken from the Statistical Office of the Federal State of Badenand September. In contrast, the late-covering crops have low GVF
Wrttemberg (http://www.statistik.baden-wuerttemberg.de) as
in April and May, while the maximum is reached in July, and it
described above. In the default settings of NOAH-MP LSM, GVF valstays relatively constant until September.
ues are taken from the NESDIS/NOAA satellite. The NESDI/NOAH
Based on the modal values of the Gaussian fits, we derived the
data have a resolution of 15 15 km2 . Due to the mixing of cropGVF dynamics of early- and later covering crops for the Kraichlands, forest and urban areas in practically all pixels, the overall GVF
gau region (Fig. 10). These satellite-derived GVF dynamics were
is
too high. Moreover, the seasonal dynamics are strongly smoothed
close to the ground measurements. In the NOAH-MP LSM, crop(Fig. 11) in comparison with the actual GVF dynamic.
lands of our study region would be classified as one land cover type
GVF
Areal average
of GVF
(Dryland cropland and pasture). Our results imply that merging early- and late-covering crops in regional climate simulations
into one land-use type as recommended in the NOAH, LSM is an
oversimplification, because they will show distinct differences with
regard to energy and water fluxes over the vegetation period.
For the municipality of Sinsheim, we calculated based on the
ground measurements the area-weighted average GVF dynamics
on the basis of varying land use and compared with that of used in
24 May 2012
1.0
early-covering crops
0.8
0.6
late-covering
crops
0.4
0.2
5. Conclusions
For the first time, we presented high-resolution data (5 5 m2 )
on the GVF dynamics of croplands derived from RapidEye satellite
data at the field and regional scale. GVF is highly variable in time
and space. As to be expected, its seasonal dynamics are affected
by the prevailing weather conditions. At the field scale, the variability of GVF depends, among others, on management (drilling,
soil tillage etc.). At the regional scale, the variability was impacted
by the distinct differences in the phenological development of
crops. The observed bi-modal distribution of GVF suggests to distinguish at least between early- and late-covering crops (e.g., winter
wheat vs. silage maize), because seasonal dynamics of energy- and
water exchange between land surface and atmosphere are very
different between these. Concomitantly, we conjecture that splitting the land uses class croplands as used by NOAH-MP and
other land surface models into two classes (early-covering vs. latecovering crops) have the potential to improve simulations of land
surface processes in heterogeneous agricultural landscapes.
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Acknowledgments
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
8. Map of the green vegetation fraction (GVF) of Kraichgau region calculated from RapidEye data on 24 May 2012. The inlet shows
linepresent study was supported by the German Research
Monththe histogram of the GVF. The redThe
ates the GVF used by the NOAH-MP land surface model in large-scale simulations.
Foundation (DFG) in the framework of the Research Unit (RU)
Fig. 10. Seasonal dynamics of the green vegetation fraction (GVF) of early covering
1695 Structure and function of agricultural landscapes under
crops (red line) and the later covering crops (green line) in Kraichgau region. Early
global climate change processes and projections on regional
covering crops are, e.g., winter wheat, winter rape, and summer barley. Late covering
scale and in part by Erasmus Mundus grant SGA 2010-2361. The
crops are mainly maize and sugar beet. (For interpretation of the references to color
authors acknowledge the German Aerospace Center (DLR) for the
this figure
legend, the
referred to the
webof
version
this article.)
High-resolution 2D GVF fields
2012,in we
observed
inreader
theiseastern
part
the ofEC2
field (silage maize)
1. Field scale
ig. 7 shows, by way of example, a RapidEye scene of the censtudy site acquired on 30 June 2012 and the derived GVF map.
bright green color indicates areas with a high green vegetation
er. The dense blue color is related to bare soil or sparsely veged areas. Buildings and asphalt roads were not excluded from
scene and show up in the graph as bluish pixels. During both
etation periods, we observed in most cases that the distribuof GVF in each field was bell-shaped (data are not shown).
most homogeneous spatial distribution of GVF was observed
C3. In June 2012, the distribution of the green cover was norat EC3 ( = 0.05). In 2012, we observed at EC1 (winter rape),
er contiguous zones of lower and higher GVF. In the north of
field, there was a strip with GVF lower than in the southern
of the field, which resulted in a bi-modal distribution. In June
At the regional scale, the GVF data showed bi-modal distributions (Figs. 8 and 9). In the scene of 24 May 2012, for example, the
histogram shows two clearly distinct peaks in the low (blue color)
and the high (green color) range. The dense dark blue color covers
around 17% of the total area. Highest GVF values (80100%; dark
green) contribute 38% of the total area. At 28% of the total area, GVF
was between 0.6 and 0.8. To each histogram, we fitted a bi-modal
Gaussian distribution (red and green lines in Fig. 9). In nearly all
months, both distributions were clearly separated from each other.
Only in June, both distributions distinctly overlapped.
Supervised classification
Unsupervised classification
(first classify, then identify)
Hybrid classification
Supervised classification
Parallelepiped classification
Unsupervised classification
C: Conifers
D: Deciduous trees
S: Stressed trees
7. CONCLUSION
Reference
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rapeseed root crops
data of 4 epochs. Even with using just very few simple features,
Confusion
matrix accuracy of far over 80% for six
we achieved a classification
grassland
A manual reference is used that was made in the same year 2010
like the satellite images. It consists of 121 separate fields of an
area of about 322ha and has been acquired by field walking.
The portion of the individual crop types of the whole area is
12% grassland, 21% corn, 28% winter crop, 11% rapeseed,
11% root crops and 17% other crops. In the process an existing
GIS was used to define the borders of single fields. The manual
corn winter
crop
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enhance agricultural sustainability and help to resolve misunderstandings or conicts between different stakeholders and authorities.
Consequently, detailed information on soils and their properties are
required, but intensive soil mapping of all of northern Thailand is
very costly and time-consuming. The mountainous areas of northern
Available data
Terrain data
- Elevation
- Slope
- Curvature
- Aspect
Geological map
Remote sensing data
- Landsat7 (bands 1-8)
- SPOT5 (bands 1-4)
Fig. 1. Physiography of the Mae Sa Mai area (topography based on Royal Thai Survey Department (1976)).
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Maximum-Likelihood approach
Fig. 4. Mae Sa Mai: (A) Reference soil map, (B) Transect sampling-based map (C) Maximum Likelihood-based-soil map, and (D) probability map: Umbrisol.
Probability
of Umbrisol
soil map, (B) Transect sampling-based map (C) Maximum Likelihood-based-soil map, and (D) probability map: Umbrisol.
ML-based map
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Fig. 4. Mae Sa Mai: (A) Reference soil map, (B) Transect sampling-based map (C) Maximum Likelihood-based-soil map, and (D) probability map: Umbrisol.
Maximum-Likelihood approach
Table 2
Error Matrix for transect sampling-based map resulting from classifying training set data in Mae Sa Mai.
Classication
data [ha]
Anthrosol
Cambisol
Chernozem
Gleysol
Leptosol
Technosol
Umbrisol
Water
row
Acrisol
Anthrosol
Cambisol
Chernozem
Gleysol
Leptosol
Technosol
Umbrisol
Water
column
885.7
0.0
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.8
0.0
886.6
0.1
1.5
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
1.6
14.8
0.0
75.8
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
6.5
0.0
97.1
0.3
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.3
0.4
0.0
0.3
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.6
0.0
0.0
0.7
0.0
0.0
5.4
0.0
0.0
0.0
6.1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
16.0
0.0
0.0
16.0
19.8
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
21.6
0.0
41.4
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
2.6
2.6
921.1
1.6
76.8
0.0
0.0
5.4
16.0
29.0
2.6
1052.4
0.0
0.0
25.4
0.0
Acrisol
Anthrosol
Cambisol
Chernozem
Gleysol
Leptosol
Technosol
Umbrisol
Water
0.1
8.0
22.0
100.0
100.0
11.9
0.0
47.8
0.0
Error ratings: very low: 020, low: 2040, medium: 4060, high: 6080, very high: 80100.
Overall accuracy: ((885.7 + 1.5 + 75.8 + 0.0 + 0.0 + 5.4 + 16.0 + 21.6 + 2.6) / 1052.4) 100 = 95.8%.
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Change
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