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Vegetation structure mapping with remote sensing time series: Capabilities and improvements

Colditz, Rene and Keil, Manfred and Strohbach, Ben and Gessner, Ursula and Schmidt, Michael and Dech, Stefan (2007) Vegetation structure mapping with remote sensing time series: Capabilities and improvements. 32nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE 2007, 25. – 29. Juni 2007, San Jose, Costa Rica.

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Abstract

Mapping vegetation structure units is a critical task for biodiversity inventories, modeling, and conversation studies. In a larger framework, global change studies including climate modeling or land surface change detection demand detailed vegetation maps for improved results. This study uses an existing vegetation map of Namibia with 23 vegetation types and applies classification trees to multispectral MODIS time series. The results of the re-mapping show a general agreement with the initial map. However, significant shifts of vegetation type boundaries were detected for the Western Highland, Thornbush and Highland Shrubland and the Southern Kalahari. In addition, the fuzzy classification results indicate broad ecotones, in particular for all Kalahari vegetation types. Temporal plots of the NDVI for each vegetation type provide further information on vegetation patterns in Namibia

Item URL in elib:https://elib.dlr.de/66563/
Document Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Speech, Paper)
Title:Vegetation structure mapping with remote sensing time series: Capabilities and improvements
Authors:
AuthorsInstitution or Email of AuthorsAuthor's ORCID iD
Colditz, ReneUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Keil, ManfredUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Strohbach, BenNational Botanical Research Institute of Namibia, Winhoek, NamibiaUNSPECIFIED
Gessner, UrsulaUniversity of WuerzburgUNSPECIFIED
Schmidt, MichaelUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Dech, StefanUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Date:2007
Refereed publication:No
Open Access:No
Gold Open Access:No
In SCOPUS:No
In ISI Web of Science:No
Status:Published
Keywords:Vegetation structure mapping, Vegetation maps, Biodiversity, Time series, Image classification, Southern Africa
Event Title:32nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, ISRSE 2007
Event Location:San Jose, Costa Rica
Event Type:international Conference
Event Dates:25. – 29. Juni 2007
HGF - Research field:Aeronautics, Space and Transport (old)
HGF - Program:Space (old)
HGF - Program Themes:W EO - Erdbeobachtung
DLR - Research area:Space
DLR - Program:W EO - Erdbeobachtung
DLR - Research theme (Project):W - Vorhaben Anwendungen Erdbeobachtung - HGF-Kooperation EOS (old)
Location: Oberpfaffenhofen
Institutes and Institutions:German Remote Sensing Data Center > Land Surface
Deposited By: Keil, Manfred
Deposited On:24 Nov 2010 20:42
Last Modified:31 Jul 2013 13:15

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