Synergistic evaluation of Sentinel 1 and 2 for biomass estimation in a tropical forest of India

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Synergistic evaluation of Sentinel 1 and 2 for biomass estimation in a tropical forest of India

Malhi, Ramandeep Kaur M. / Anand, Akash / Srivastava, Prashant K. / Chaudhary, Sumit K. / Pandey, Manish K. / Behera, Mukund Dev / Kumar, Amit / Singh, Prachi / Sandhya Kiran, G.

Abstract

Abstract Spatially explicit measurement of Above Ground Biomass (AGB) is crucial for the quantification of forest carbon stock and fluxes. To achieve this, an integration of Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite datasets could provide an accurate estimation of forest biomass. This will also help in removing the uncertainties associated with the single sensor-based estimation approaches. Therefore, the present study attempts to integrate Sentinel-2 optical data with Sentinel-1 SAR dataset to estimate AGB in the Shoolpaneshwar Wildlife Sanctuary (SWS), Gujarat, India. In this study, two non-parametric machine learning algorithms viz Support Vector Machines (SVMs) with different kernel functions—linear, sigmoidal, radial and polynomial and Random Forest (RF) were employed for the prediction of AGB using different combinations of VV, VH, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Incidence Angle (IA). Ground based AGB was estimated through allometric equation at 35 sampling sites with the help of tree height and Diameter at Breast’s Height (DBH). Standalone collinearity analysis among different parameters resulted in poor correlation of AGB with VH (r = 0.05) and IA (r = 0.015), whereas a significantly good correlation with NDVI (r = 0.80) and VV (r = 0.74) were observed. Inclusion of NDVI with VV and VH together also resulted in a better correlation (r = 0.85) than other combinations. The SVM with linear kernel utilizing parametric the combinations of VV + VH + NDVI and VV + VH + NDVI + IA were found to be best performing on the basis of evaluation metrics. The outcome of this study highlighted the significance of machine learning techniques and synergistic use of different remote sensing data for an improved AGB quantification in tropical forests.

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Titel :

Synergistic evaluation of Sentinel 1 and 2 for biomass estimation in a tropical forest of India

Beteiligte:

Malhi, Ramandeep Kaur M. (Autor:in) / Anand, Akash (Autor:in) / Srivastava, Prashant K. (Autor:in) / Chaudhary, Sumit K. (Autor:in) / Pandey, Manish K. (Autor:in) / Behera, Mukund Dev (Autor:in) / Kumar, Amit (Autor:in) / Singh, Prachi (Autor:in) / Sandhya Kiran, G. (Autor:in)

Erschienen in:

Advances in Space Research ; 69 , 4 ; 1752-1767

Erscheinungsdatum :

2021-03-24

Format / Umfang :

16 pages

ISSN :

0273-1177

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2021.03.035

Medientyp :

Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)