Advances in Mapping Woody Plant Canopies Using the NASA MISR Instrument on Terra
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
12-1-2007
Abstract
Red (672 nm) band reflectance estimates from the NASA Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (MISR) on the Earth Observing System Terra satellite were used to obtain maps of woody plant fractional crown cover, mean canopy height, and biomass for large parts of south-eastern Arizona and southern New Mexico (>200,000 km2). MISR red band bidirectional reflectance estimates in nine views mapped to a 250 m grid were used to adjust the Simple Geometric-optical Model (SGM) that is based on the principles of Boolean geometry first exploited in LiStrahler geometric-optical (GO) models. The soil-understory background signal was decoupled a priori by exploiting relationships with the nadir camera reflectance data and the kernel weights of the LiSparse-RossThin kernel-driven bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) model. Maps of fractional crown cover, mean canopy height, and biomass were produced via retrievals of the mean crown radius and shape parameters from inversion of the SGM using the Praxis algorithm. The mean absolute error in randomly sampled and filtered estimates of fractional crown cover, mean canopy height, and woody biomass was 0.10, 2.2 meters, and 4.5 tons acre-1 (10.1 Mg ha-1), with RMS errors of 0.12, 3.3 and 6.2 (14.0), and coefficients of determination (R2) of 0.78, 0.69, and 0.81, respectively, significant at the 0.01 level (N=576).
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423355
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Chopping, Mark; Su, Lihong; Kollikkathara, Naushad; and Urena, Libertad, "Advances in Mapping Woody Plant Canopies Using the NASA MISR Instrument on Terra" (2007). Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 140.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/earth-environ-studies-facpubs/140