Large-scale mapping of aboveground biomass of tropical rainforest in Sulawesi, Indonesia, using Landsat ETM+ and MODIS data

This study combined 30-m spatial resolution Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) data and 500-m spatial resolution Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data, together with field data, to up-scale aboveground biomass (AGB) of tropical rainforests in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Contrasting to usual up-scaling approaches, this study uses in the intermediate step an estimation method based on application of geostatistics in the Landsat ETM+ spectral feature space. To connect ground-based measurements with spectral reflectance in Landsat ETM+ bands, this method employs ordinary Kriging in the three-dimesional (3-D) space where spectral features of satellite data are used instead of geographic coordinates. The most appropriate combination of the 3-D space spectral bands (bands 4 and 5) was then assigned with corresponding MODIS bands. In the final step, AGB could be mapped over the large area covered by the MODIS data. The results of the study indicate the effectiveness of the developed up-scaling method with respect to dealing with the problem of resolution mismatch between the ground sampling plots and the MODIS data.

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