Mapping and classification of Peatland on the Isle of Lewis using Landsat ETM+.

Britain contains some of the largest areas of blanket peatland in the world and the monitoring of this resource is vital. This study has investigated whether Landsat ETM+ can be used to identify types of blanket peatland on Lewis. This was done using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on composites...

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Publicado en:Scottish Geographical Journal Vol. 123; no. 3; pp. 173 - 193
Autores principales: Brown, E., Aitkenhead, M., Wright, R., Aalders, I.H.
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2007
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          Environment Section, Planning & Development Service, The Highland Council, Inverness, UK
          University of Aberdeen, Department of Plant & Soil Science, Aberdeen, UK
          Department of Geography & Environment, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
          The Macaulay Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, UK
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        Peatlands
        Artificial neural networks
        Cartography
        Remote sensing
        Geography
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      ab: Britain contains some of the largest areas of blanket peatland in the world and the monitoring of this resource is vital. This study has investigated whether Landsat ETM+ can be used to identify types of blanket peatland on Lewis. This was done using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on composites of band ratios and single band variables, and using neural network classification. The distinction between peatland and non-peatland was easily accomplished, but the identification of different peatland types was more difficult. PCA on a composite of spectral bands 1 to 9 was the most useful composite, but did not improve over the use of NDVI-related band ratios. An overlap was found between peatland classes caused by similar spectral signatures of peat banks and eroded peatland. This was confirmed by a separate study examining the variation between different blanket bog classes in the Land Cover of Scotland 1988 dataset. It is suspected that this problem will remain with Landsat ETM+ -based classification of peatland because the spatial resolution is insufficient to capture the heterogeneous nature of the terrain and vegetation types. The paper discusses further methodologies and information sources which, in combination with Landsat ETM+ data, could improve the ability to classify peatland.
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