Integrating national forest inventory, airborne lidar, and satellite imagery for wall-to-wall mapping of forest structure with computer vision
초록
Remote sensing is increasingly relied upon to deliver actionable science for forest and wildfire risk management across large landscapes. Wall-to-wall, annually updated maps are a persistent need for effective forest management. Many planning systems and data collections combine disparate data sources with different purposes, vintages, and prediction quality, which leads to confounding behavior in operational planning systems. We introduce the VibrantForests framework, developed and applied to map forest attributes and provide a coherent foundation for effective forest and wildfire planning. VibrantForests includes a satellite-based forest structure model trained on lidar-derived samples and applied across the contiguous United States to concurrently generate estimates of canopy cover, canopy height, aboveground live tree biomass, basal area, and quadratic mean diameter at 10-meter resolution. We demonstrate predictive capability spanning the full spectrum of forest conditions ranging from sparse-canopy/low-biomass to dense-canopy/high-biomass. Results show that our model extends the range at which saturation is commonly encountered in comparable passive-sensor models, and reduces regression-to-mean behavior that commonly produces overestimation of forest attributes in small/sparse conditions and underestimation in large/dense conditions. The VibrantForests framework addresses a key limitation in large-area forest and wildfire planning by delivering coherent wall-to-wall estimates of management-relevant attributes at annual cadence and 10m resolution.
저자 (11명)
- Luke J. Zachmann — LinkedIn 검색
- David D. Diaz — LinkedIn 검색
- Vincent A. Landau — LinkedIn 검색
- Chelsey Walden-Schreiner — LinkedIn 검색
- Tony Chang — LinkedIn 검색
- Nathan E. Rutenbeck — LinkedIn 검색
- Katharyn A. Duffy — LinkedIn 검색
- Kiarie Ndegwa — LinkedIn 검색
- Andreas Gros — LinkedIn 검색
- Scott Conway — LinkedIn 검색
- Guy Bayes — LinkedIn 검색
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