European Journal of Remote Sensing · 2020 · 97 citations · 35 references
Natural ResourcesEarth SciencesForestryForest InventoryLandscape Change DetectionRemote SensingChange DetectionForest Change DetectionForest Disturbance DetectionLand Cover Change DetectionRemote Sensing Change DetectionVegetation Change DetectionChange Detection From Remote SensingForest Cover Change MappingForest Disturbance AssessmentForest-cover ChangeLand Change DetectionReference Set ConstructionThresholdingVegetation Cover Change Detection
ABSTRACT To combat global deforestation, monitoring forest disturbances at sub-annual scales is a key challenge. For this purpose, the new Planetscope nano-satellite constellation is a game changer, with a revisit time of 1 day and a pixel size of 3-m. We present a near-real time forest disturbance alert system based on PlanetScope imagery: the Thresholding Rewards and Penances algorithm (TRP). It produces a new forest change map as soon as a new PlanetScope image is acquired. To calibrate and validate TRP, a reference set was constructed as a complete census of five randomly selected study areas in Tuscany, Italy. We processed 572 PlanetScope images acquired between 1 May 2018 and 5 July 2019. TRP was used to construct forest change maps during the study period for which the final user’s accuracy was 86% and the final producer’s accuracy was 92%. In addition, we estimated the forest change area using an unbiased stratified estimator that can be used with a small sample of reference data. The 95% confidence interval for the sample-based estimate of 56.89 ha included the census-based area estimate of 56.19 ha.
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