Improvement of Countrywide Vegetation Mapping over Japan and Comparison to Existing Maps - Advances in Remote Sensing

ARS > Vol.7 No.3, September 2018

Improvement of Countrywide Vegetation Mapping over Japan and Comparison to Existing Maps ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ars.2018.73011 732 Downloads 1,972 Views Citations

Author(s)

Ram C. Sharma¹, Keitarou Hara¹, Hidetake Hirayama²

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Informatics, Tokyo University of Information Sciences, Chiba, Japan.
²Graduate School of Informatics, Tokyo University of Information Sciences, Chiba, Japan.

ABSTRACT

This paper presents an improved classification and mapping of vegetation types for all of Japan by utilizing the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data. The Nadir BRDF-Adjusted Reflectance (MCD43A4 product) data were compared to the conventional Surface Reflectance (MOD09A1/MOY09A1 products) data for the classification of vegetation types: evergreen coniferous forest, evergreen broadleaf forest, deciduous coniferous forest, deciduous broadleaf forest, shrubs, herbaceous, arable; and non-vegetation. Very rich spectral and temporal features were prepared from MCD43A4 and MOD09A1/MOY09A1 products. Random Forests classifier was employed for the classification of vegetation types with the support of ground truth data prepared in the research. Accuracy metrics—confusion matrix, overall accuracy, and kappa coefficient calculated through 10-fold cross-validation approach—were used for quantitative comparison of MCD43A4 and MOD09A1/MOY09A1 products. The cross-validation results indicated better performance of the MCD43A4 (Overall accuracy = 0.73; Kappa coefficient = 0.69) product than conventional MOD09A1/MOY09A1 products (Overall accuracy = 0.70; Kappa coefficient = 0.66) for the classification. McNemar’s test was also used to confirm a significant difference (p-value = 0.0003) between MCD43A4 and MOD09A1/MOY09A1 products. Based on these results, by utilizing the MCD43A4 features, a new vegetation map was produced for all of Japan. The newly produced map showed better accuracy than the extant, MODIS Land Cover Type product (MCD12Q1) and Global Land Cover by National Mapping Organizations (GLCNMO) product in Japan.

KEYWORDS

Vegetation, Classification, MODIS, Random Forests, Mapping, Japan

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Sharma, R. , Hara, K. and Hirayama, H. (2018) Improvement of Countrywide Vegetation Mapping over Japan and Comparison to Existing Maps. Advances in Remote Sensing, 7, 163-170. doi: 10.4236/ars.2018.73011.

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