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Evaluation of Vegetation Index-Based Curve Fitting Models for Accurate Classification of Salt Marsh Vegetation Using Sentinel-2 Time-Series

The successful launch of the Sentinel-2 constellation satellite, along with advanced cloud detection algorithms, has enabled the generation of continuous time series at high spatial and temporal resolutions, which is in turn expected to enable the classification of salt marsh vegetation over larger...

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Autores principales: Sun, Chao, Li, Jialin, Cao, Luodan, Liu, Yongchao, Jin, Song, Zhao, Bingxue
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7582664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32998319
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20195551
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author Sun, Chao
Li, Jialin
Cao, Luodan
Liu, Yongchao
Jin, Song
Zhao, Bingxue
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Li, Jialin
Cao, Luodan
Liu, Yongchao
Jin, Song
Zhao, Bingxue
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description The successful launch of the Sentinel-2 constellation satellite, along with advanced cloud detection algorithms, has enabled the generation of continuous time series at high spatial and temporal resolutions, which is in turn expected to enable the classification of salt marsh vegetation over larger spatiotemporal scales. This study presents a critical comparison of vegetation index (VI) and curve fitting methods—two key factors for time series construction that potentially influence vegetation classification performance. To accomplish this objective, the stability of five different VI time series, namely Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (GNDVI), and Water-Adjusted Vegetation Index (WAVI), was compared empirically; the suitability between three curve fitting methods, namely Asymmetric Gaussian (AG), Double Logistic (DL), and Two-term Fourier (TF), and VI time series was measured using the coefficient of determination, and the salt marsh vegetation separability among different combinations of VI time series and curve fitting methods (i.e., VI time series-based curve fitting model) was quantified using overall the Jeffries–Matusita distance. Six common types of salt marsh vegetation from three typical coastal sites in China were used to validate these findings, which demonstrate: (1) the SAVI performed best in terms of time series stability, while the EVI exhibited relatively poor time series stability with conspicuous outliers induced by the sensitivity to omitted clouds and shadows; (2) the DL method commonly resulted in the most accurate classification of different salt marsh vegetation types, especially when combined with the EVI time series, followed by the TF method; and (3) the SAVI/NDVI-based DL/TF model demonstrated comparable efficiency for classifying salt marsh vegetation. Notably, the SAVI/NDVI-based DL model performed most strongly for high latitude regions with a continental climate, whilst the SAVI/NDVI-based TF model appears to be better suited to mid- to low latitude regions dominated by a monsoonal climate.
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spelling pubmed-75826642020-10-28 Evaluation of Vegetation Index-Based Curve Fitting Models for Accurate Classification of Salt Marsh Vegetation Using Sentinel-2 Time-Series Sun, Chao Li, Jialin Cao, Luodan Liu, Yongchao Jin, Song Zhao, Bingxue Sensors (Basel) Article The successful launch of the Sentinel-2 constellation satellite, along with advanced cloud detection algorithms, has enabled the generation of continuous time series at high spatial and temporal resolutions, which is in turn expected to enable the classification of salt marsh vegetation over larger spatiotemporal scales. This study presents a critical comparison of vegetation index (VI) and curve fitting methods—two key factors for time series construction that potentially influence vegetation classification performance. To accomplish this objective, the stability of five different VI time series, namely Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (GNDVI), and Water-Adjusted Vegetation Index (WAVI), was compared empirically; the suitability between three curve fitting methods, namely Asymmetric Gaussian (AG), Double Logistic (DL), and Two-term Fourier (TF), and VI time series was measured using the coefficient of determination, and the salt marsh vegetation separability among different combinations of VI time series and curve fitting methods (i.e., VI time series-based curve fitting model) was quantified using overall the Jeffries–Matusita distance. Six common types of salt marsh vegetation from three typical coastal sites in China were used to validate these findings, which demonstrate: (1) the SAVI performed best in terms of time series stability, while the EVI exhibited relatively poor time series stability with conspicuous outliers induced by the sensitivity to omitted clouds and shadows; (2) the DL method commonly resulted in the most accurate classification of different salt marsh vegetation types, especially when combined with the EVI time series, followed by the TF method; and (3) the SAVI/NDVI-based DL/TF model demonstrated comparable efficiency for classifying salt marsh vegetation. Notably, the SAVI/NDVI-based DL model performed most strongly for high latitude regions with a continental climate, whilst the SAVI/NDVI-based TF model appears to be better suited to mid- to low latitude regions dominated by a monsoonal climate. MDPI 2020-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7582664/ /pubmed/32998319 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20195551 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Sun, Chao
Li, Jialin
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Evaluation of Vegetation Index-Based Curve Fitting Models for Accurate Classification of Salt Marsh Vegetation Using Sentinel-2 Time-Series
title Evaluation of Vegetation Index-Based Curve Fitting Models for Accurate Classification of Salt Marsh Vegetation Using Sentinel-2 Time-Series
title_full Evaluation of Vegetation Index-Based Curve Fitting Models for Accurate Classification of Salt Marsh Vegetation Using Sentinel-2 Time-Series
title_fullStr Evaluation of Vegetation Index-Based Curve Fitting Models for Accurate Classification of Salt Marsh Vegetation Using Sentinel-2 Time-Series
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of Vegetation Index-Based Curve Fitting Models for Accurate Classification of Salt Marsh Vegetation Using Sentinel-2 Time-Series
title_short Evaluation of Vegetation Index-Based Curve Fitting Models for Accurate Classification of Salt Marsh Vegetation Using Sentinel-2 Time-Series
title_sort evaluation of vegetation index-based curve fitting models for accurate classification of salt marsh vegetation using sentinel-2 time-series
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7582664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32998319
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20195551
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