Assessing error sources for Landsat time series analysis for tropical test sites in Viet Nam and Ethiopia

Michael Schultz; Jan Verbesselt; Martin Herold; Valerio Avitabile

doi:10.1117/12.2029374

24 October 2013 Assessing error sources for Landsat time series analysis for tropical test sites in Viet Nam and Ethiopia

Michael Schultz, Jan Verbesselt, Martin Herold, Valerio Avitabile

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Proceedings Volume 8893, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications IV; 88930M (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2029374
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2013, Dresden, Germany

Abstract

Researchers who use remotely sensed data can spend half of their total effort analysing prior data. If this data preprocessing does not match the application, this time spent on data analysis can increase considerably and can lead to inaccuracies. Despite the existence of a number of methods for pre-processing Landsat time series, each method has shortcomings, particularly for mapping forest changes under varying illumination, data availability and atmospheric conditions. Based on the requirements of mapping forest changes as defined by the United Nations (UN) Reducing Emissions from Forest Degradation and Deforestation (REDD) program, the accurate reporting of the spatio-temporal properties of these changes is necessary. We compared the impact of three fundamentally different radiometric preprocessing techniques Moderate Resolution Atmospheric TRANsmission (MODTRAN), Second Simulation of a Satellite Signal in the Solar Spectrum (6S) and simple Dark Object Subtraction (DOS) on mapping forest changes using Landsat time series data. A modification of Breaks For Additive Season and Trend (BFAST) monitor was used to jointly map the spatial and temporal agreement of forest changes at test sites in Ethiopia and Viet Nam. The suitability of the pre-processing methods for the occurring forest change drivers was assessed using recently captured Ground Truth and high resolution data (1000 points). A method for creating robust generic forest maps used for the sampling design is presented. An assessment of error sources has been performed identifying haze as a major source for time series analysis commission error.

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Michael Schultz, Jan Verbesselt, Martin Herold, and Valerio Avitabile "Assessing error sources for Landsat time series analysis for tropical test sites in Viet Nam and Ethiopia", Proc. SPIE 8893, Earth Resources and Environmental Remote Sensing/GIS Applications IV, 88930M (24 October 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2029374

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