Title
Hydrological Regime Monitoring and Mapping of the Zhalong Wetland through Integrating Time Series Radarsat-2 and Landsat Imagery.
Abstract
Zhalong wetland is a globally important breeding habitat for many rare migratory bird species. Prompted by the high demand for temporal and spatial information about the wetland's hydrological regimes and landscape patterns, eight time series Radarsat-2 images were utilized to detect the flooding characteristics of the Zhalong wetland. Subsequently, a random forest model was built to discriminate wetlands from other land cover types, combining with optical, radar, and hydrological regime data derived from multitemporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The results showed that hydrological regimes variables, including flooding extent and flooding frequency, derived from multitemporal SAR images, improve the land cover classification accuracy in the natural wetlands distribution area. The permutation importance scores derived from the random forest classifier indicate that normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) calculated from optical imagery and the flooding frequency derived from multitemporal SAR imagery were found to be the most important variables for land cover mapping. Accuracy testing indicate that the addition of hydrological regime features effectively depressed the omission error rates (from 52.14% to 2.88%) of marsh and the commission error (from 77.34% to 51.27%) of meadow, thereby improving the overall classification accuracy (from 76.49% to 91.73%). The hydrological regimes and land cover monitoring in the typical wetlands are important for eco-hydrological modeling, biodiversity conservation, and regional ecology and water security.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/rs10050702
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
hydrological regimes,Rardarsat-2,random forests,wetlands mapping
Spatial analysis,Radar,Physical geography,Synthetic aperture radar,Remote sensing,Marsh,Wetland,Normalized Difference Vegetation Index,Geology,Flooding (psychology),Land cover
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
10
5
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaodong Na1192.64
Shuying Zang222.86
Changshan Wu3223.87
Yang Tian4204.01
Wenliang Li531.21