Sierra

Gibbons Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, Texas Mentors: Dr. Susan Ustin and Shane Grigsby

 National Ecological Observatory Network

Plans on monitoring 20 domains throughout the

United States over the next 30 years.

Sources: NEON Technical Memo 003, californiamapcities.blogspot.com

Lower Elevation

Upper Elevation

Shapeles : USFS Pacic Southwest Region

True Color

Water Band Index

MASTER Lines Vegetation Indices Albedo

LIDAR Canopy Heights

DEM Raw MASTER Thermal Band

LIDAR Canopy Heights

Lower Elevation ROIs Live Oak* Grey Pine* Willow Blue Oak* Valley Oak Dry Grass/Soil* Green Grass* Water* Soil* Dirt Road* Urban* Asphalt Road*
* used in LIDAR subset

Upper Elevation ROIs Lodgepole Pine Red Fir Quaking Aspen Jeery Pine Mountain Whitethorn Ponderosa Pine White Fir Green Grass Wet Meadow Clearcut Water Rock Road Emerged Rock Urban

True color image showing location of ROIs.

Separate classications were done for each elevation. All available images were stacked. A decision tree was developed to classify the MASTER line based on ROIs.

Red

MSI

Blue

LIDAR VARI LIDAR Thermal ARI

Thermal

Validation ROIs Confusion Matrix

+ =
Classication Map

 Overall Accuracy = 89.44% Kappa Coecient = 0.8847 Shortwave Bands = 5/12 = 42% Vegetation Indices = 4/12 = 33% ARVI (broadband) EVI (broadband) NDII (canopy water) RVSI (narrowband) Thermal Bands = 3/12 = 25%

LIDAR Included

LIDAR Included

Overall Accuracy = Overall Accuracy =

89.5% Kappa Coecient = 0.8837 Shortwave Bands = 4/9 = 44% Thermal Bands = 3/9 = 33% Vegetation Indices = 2/9 = 22% ARI1 (leaf Pig.) PSRI (dry C)

91.09% Kappa Coecient = 0.9006 Shortwave Bands = 2/9 = 22% Thermal Bands = 2/9 = 22% LIDAR = 2/9 = 22% Vegetation Indices = 3/9 = 33% MSI(canopy wat) VARI(broadband) ARI1 (leaf pig.)

Overall Accuracy = Kappa Coecient = Shortwave Bands = Thermal Bands =

91.245% 0.9057 4/13 = 31% 4/13 = 31%

Vegetation Indices = 5/13 =38 % ARVI (broadband) SAVI (broadband) MNDVI (narrowband) WBI (canopy Water) CI Rededge (leaf pigment)

The shortwave, thermal and indices were all used during classication. LIDAR caused a noticeable improvement. The upper elevation utilized more vegetation indices than the lower elevation classications. Higher accuracy could be correlated to less dependence on shortwave bands.

Current classication maps provide a baseline for monitoring future changes.

With more detailed classication, more changes can be identied.

LIDAR data allows the most separation between tree species.

Should be added to the upper elevation classication.

Special thanks to Shane Grigsby (mentor), Susan Ustin (faculty advisor), Lydia Rill and Chris Scheele (atm. corrections), Aaron Martinez (canopy hts.), the Land Group a.k.a. Terra-ist (moral support) and Emilly Schaller and Rick Shetter (for making this program possible!)

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