Summary of Comparing Remote Sensing-based Forest Biomass Mapping Approaches Using New Forest Inventory Plots in Contrasting Forests in Northeastern and Southwestern China, by Wenquan Dong et al.
Comparing remote sensing-based forest biomass mapping approaches using new forest inventory plots in contrasting forests in northeastern and southwestern China
by Wenquan Dong, Edward T.A. Mitchard, Yuwei Chen, Man Chen, Congfeng Cao, Peilun Hu, Cong Xu, Steven Hancock
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The research paper presents a novel approach to creating high-resolution maps of aboveground biomass (AGB) in forests, which is crucial for understanding the global carbon cycle and mitigating climate change. By leveraging the new space-borne LiDAR sensor GEDI and combining it with data from other satellites like Sentinel-1, ALOS-2 PALSAR-2, and Sentinel-2, the study develops local machine learning models to estimate forest AGB at 25 m resolution. The authors use LightGBM and random forest regression algorithms to generate wall-to-wall AGB maps, demonstrating a slightly better performance of LightGBM in two contrasting regions. However, LightGBM is substantially faster than Random Forest, requiring roughly one-third the time to compute on the same hardware. The study finds that the trained models perform well when tested on nearby but different regions. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research helps us create more accurate maps of forest carbon stocks and how they are changing. It uses special sensors in space satellites to get detailed information about forests, which is important for understanding climate change. The scientists developed new ways to use this data, combining it with other sources like Sentinel-1, ALOS-2 PALSAR-2, and Sentinel-2. They tested these methods on different regions and found that they work well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Random forest » Regression
