Mangrove above-ground carbon stock mapping of multi-resolution passive remote-sensing systems

ABSTRACT This research address several issues related to mangrove above-ground carbon stock (AGC) mapping using the integration of remote-sensing images and field data. These issues are (1) remote-sensing image availability for specific mangrove AGC mapping scale and precision, (2) the impact on mangrove AGC modelling due to the difference between images spatial resolution and plot size of field mangrove AGC measurement, which follow the standardized procedure and not specially developed to be integrated with remote-sensing data, and (3) the accuracy of performing mangrove AGC mapping using image at different spatial resolutions using similar field size mangrove AGC data. Four multispectral data sets, namely Worldview-2, Advanced Land Observation System Advanced Visible and Near-Infrared Radiometer-2 (ALOS AVNIR-2), Advanced Spectral and Thermal Radiometer (ASTER) Visible Near-Infrared (VNIR) and Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI), and a Hyperion hyperspectral image were tested for their performance for mangrove AGC mapping. These images represent various spatial, spectral, and radiometric resolutions of remote-sensing data available to date. The mapping was performed using their original spatial resolution, and for Worldview-2 the mapping was also conducted using 10 m spatial resolution. Image radiometric corrections, vegetation indices, principal component analysis and minimum noise fraction were applied to each image. These were used as input in the empirical modelling of mangrove AGC. The results indicate that (1) it is not possible to perform empirical modelling of mangrove AGC using image with sub-canopy spatial resolution, (2) decreasing the spatial resolution may be beneficial to obtaining a significant correlation with mangrove AGC, and (3) it is possible to perform empirical modelling of mangrove AGC mapping using field data not specially intended to be integrated with remote-sensing data, along with some adjustments. This opens up the possibility of utilizing the available field mangrove AGC data collected by stakeholders, that is, government institutions, NGOs, academics, private sector, to assist mangrove AGC mapping across the nation.

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