Improving tropical deforestation detection by fusing multiple SAR change measures

Dong Xichao; Quegan Shaun; Wei Liu; Kai Cui; Xin Lv

Improving tropical deforestation detection by fusing multiple SAR change measures

Dong Xichao
, Quegan Shaun
, Wei Liu^*
, Kai Cui
, Xin Lv

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Information and Electronics

University of Sheffield
Beijing Institute of Technology

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Abstract

The paper studies tropical deforestation detection in Riau province, Indonesia with L-band ALOS PALSAR and C-band ENVISAT ASAR data. Multiple change measures as SAR image intensity, texture, and temporal variations of ScanSAR time series are extracted and employed for deforestation detection. These measures are then combined for improving the detection with subsequent performance evaluation by comparing with the World Wildlife Fund's land cover maps as reference data. When applied on the FBD scene overlaid by both the PALSAR and ASAR data, the detection rate achieves up to 83.2%(at a false alarm rate of 20%) with a significant improvement of over 18% compared with the detection based on the single measure.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	IET International Radar Conference 2015 - Hangzhou, China Duration: 14 Oct 2015 → 16 Oct 2015

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Conference	IET International Radar Conference 2015
Country/Territory	China
City	Hangzhou
Period	14/10/15 → 16/10/15

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

Change detection
Forest monitoring
Synthetic aperture radar
Tropical deforestation

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Improving tropical deforestation detection by fusing multiple SAR change measures

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