Title
Mapping Of Kobresia Pygmaea Community Based On Umanned Aerial Vehicle Technology And Gaofen Remote Sensing Data In Alpine Meadow Grassland: A Case Study In Eastern Of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Abstract
The Kobresia pygmaea (KP) community is a key succession stage of alpine meadow degradation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). However, most of the grassland classification and mapping studies have been performed at the grassland type level. The spatial distribution and impact factors of KP on the QTP are still unclear. In this study, field measurements of the grassland vegetation community in the eastern part of the QTP (Counties of Zeku, Henan and Maqu) from 2015 to 2019 were acquired using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology. The machine learning algorithms for grassland vegetation community classification were constructed by combining Gaofen satellite images and topographic indices. Then, the spatial distribution of KP community was mapped. The results showed that: (1) For all field observed sites, the alpine meadow vegetation communities demonstrated a considerable spatial heterogeneity. The traditional classification methods can hardly distinguish those communities due to the high similarity of their spectral characteristics. (2) The random forest method based on the combination of satellite vegetation indices, texture feature and topographic indices exhibited the best performance in three counties, with overall accuracy and Kappa coefficient ranged from 74.06% to 83.92% and 0.65 to 0.80, respectively. (3) As a whole, the area of KP community reached 1434.07 km(2), and accounted for 7.20% of the study area. We concluded that the combination of satellite remote sensing, UAV surveying and machine learning can be used for KP classification and mapping at community level.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/rs13132483
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Kobresia pygmaea community, unmanned aerial vehicle, Gaofen satellite, spatial distribution
Journal
13
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
13
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
12
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Baoping Meng100.68
Zhigui Yang200.68
Hongyan Yu300.34
Yu Qin401.01
Yi Sun500.34
Jianguo Zhang600.68
Jianjun Chen73912.52
Zhiwei Wang800.34
Wei Zhang900.68
Meng Li1000.34
Yanyan Lv1100.68
Shuhua Yi1224.51