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Classification of Atlantic Coastal Sand Dune Vegetation Using In Situ, UAV, and Airborne Hyperspectral Data
- Source :
- Remote Sensing, Volume 12, Issue 14, Pages: 2222, Remote Sensing, Vol 12, Iss 2222, p 2222 (2020), Remote Sensing, MDPI, 2020, 12, ⟨10.3390/rs12142222⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020.
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Abstract
- International audience; Mapping coastal dune vegetation is critical to understand dune mobility and resilience in the context of climate change, sea level rise, and increased anthropogenic pressure. However, the identification of plant species from remotely sensed data is tedious and limited to broad vegetation communities, while such environments are dominated by fragmented and small-scale landscape patterns. In June 2019, a comprehensive multi-scale survey including unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), hyperspectral ground, and airborne data was conducted along approximately 20 km of a coastal dune system in southwest France. The objective was to generate an accurate mapping of the main sediment and plant species ground cover types in order to characterize the spatial distribution of coastal dune stability patterns. Field and UAV data were used to assess the quality of airborne data and generate a robust end-member spectral library. Next, a two-step classification approach, based on the normalized difference vegetation index and Random Forest classifier, was developed. Results show high performances with an overall accuracy of 100% and 92.5% for sand and vegetation ground cover types, respectively. Finally, a coastal dune stability index was computed across the entire study site. Different stability patterns were clearly identified along the coast, highlighting for the first time the high potential of this methodology to support coastal dune management.
- Subjects :
- stability index
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Science
0211 other engineering and technologies
Climate change
Context (language use)
02 engineering and technology
Spatial distribution
01 natural sciences
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
Sand dune stabilization
airborne hyperspectral
14. Life underwater
[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment
021101 geological & geomatics engineering
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
end-member spectral library
pixel-based supervised classification
Random Forest
Sediment
Hyperspectral imaging
Vegetation
15. Life on land
[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]
13. Climate action
coastal dune vegetation
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Environmental science
Physical geography
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20724292
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Remote Sensing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a1f0d7d1c9ccaf6cce6491be4f7d05cb
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12142222