Urban green land cover changes and their relation to climatic variables in an anthropogenically impacted area

Maria A. Zoran; Adrian I. Dida

doi:10.1117/12.2278019

4 October 2017 Urban green land cover changes and their relation to climatic variables in an anthropogenically impacted area

Maria A. Zoran, Adrian I. Dida

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Proceedings Volume 10431, Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments II; 104310W (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2278019
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2017, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

Urban green areas are experiencing rapid land cover change caused by human-induced land degradation and extreme climatic events. Vegetation index time series provide a useful way to monitor urban vegetation phenological variations. This study quantitatively describes Normalized Difference Vegetation Index NDVI) /Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) and Leaf Area Index (LAI) temporal changes for Bucharest metropolitan region land cover in Romania from the perspective of vegetation phenology and its relation with climate changes and extreme climate events. The time series from 2000 to 2016 of the NOAA AVHRR and MODIS Terra/Aqua satellite data were analyzed to extract anomalies. Time series of climatic variables were also analyzed through anomaly detection techniques and the Fourier Transform. Correlations between NDVI/EVI time series and climatic variables were computed. Temperature, rainfall and radiation were significantly correlated with almost all land-cover classes for the harmonic analysis amplitude term. However, vegetation phenology was not correlated with climatic variables for the harmonic analysis phase term suggesting a delay between climatic variations and vegetation response. Training and validation were based on a reference dataset collected from IKONOS high resolution remote sensing data. The mean detection accuracy for period 2000- 2016 was assessed to be of 87%, with a reasonable balance between change commission errors (19.3%), change omission errors (24.7%), and Kappa coefficient of 0.73. This paper demonstrates the potential of moderate - and high resolution, multispectral imagery to map and monitor the evolution of the physical urban green land cover under climate and anthropogenic pressure.

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Maria A. Zoran and Adrian I. Dida "Urban green land cover changes and their relation to climatic variables in an anthropogenically impacted area", Proc. SPIE 10431, Remote Sensing Technologies and Applications in Urban Environments II, 104310W (4 October 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2278019

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