Monitoring Long-Term Land Cover Change in Central Yakutia Using Sparse Time Series Landsat Data

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作者
Lee, Yeji [1 ]
Kim, Su-Young [2 ]
Jung, Yoon Taek [1 ]
Park, Sang-Eun [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Sejong Univ, Dept Geoinformat Engn, 209 Neungdong Ro, Seoul 05006, South Korea
[2] Sejong Univ, Dept Energy & Mineral Resources Engn, 209 Neungdong Ro, Seoul 05006, South Korea
关键词
permafrost; boreal forest; time series; classification; landsat; land cover change; wildfire; thermokarst; lake; SUMMER SURFACE TEMPERATURES; LENA RIVER-BASIN; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS; THERMOKARST LAKE; CENTRAL SIBERIA; ARCTIC TUNDRA; PERMAFROST; SATELLITE; CLIMATE; VEGETATION;
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10.3390/rs16111868
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X [环境科学、安全科学];
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08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Recently, as global climate change and local disturbances such as wildfires continue, long- and short-term changes in the high-latitude vegetation systems have been observed in various studies. Although remote sensing technology using optical satellites has been widely used in understanding vegetation dynamics in high-latitude areas, there has been limited understanding of various landscape changes at different spatiotemporal scales, their mutual relationships, and overall long-term landscape changes. The objective of this study is to devise a change monitoring strategy that can effectively observe landscape changes at different spatiotemporal scales in the boreal ecosystems from temporally sparse time series remote sensing data. We presented a new post-classification-based change analysis scheme and applied it to time series Landsat data for the central Yakutian study area. Spectral variability between time series data has been a major problem in the analysis of changes that make it difficult to distinguish long- and short-term land cover changes from seasonal growth activities. To address this issue effectively, two ideas in the time series classification, such as the stepwise classification and the lateral stacking strategies were implemented in the classification process. The proposed classification results showed consistently higher overall accuracies of more than 90% obtained in all classes throughout the study period. The temporal classification results revealed the distinct spatial and temporal patterns of the land cover changes in central Yakutia. The spatiotemporal distribution of the short-term class illustrated that the ecosystem disturbance caused by fire could be affected by local thermal and hydrological conditions of the active layer as well as climatic conditions. On the other hand, the long-term class changes revealed land cover trajectories that could not be explained by monotonic increase or decrease. To characterize the long-term land cover change patterns, we applied a piecewise linear model with two line segments to areal class changes. During the former half of the study period, which corresponds to the 2000s, the areal expansion of lakes on the eastern Lena River terrace was the dominant feature of the land cover change. On the other hand, the land cover changes in the latter half of the study period, which corresponds to the 2010s, exhibited that lake area decreased, particularly in the thermokarst lowlands close to the Lena and Aldan rivers. In this area, significant forest decline can also be identified during the 2010s.
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