Retrospective mapping of burnt areas in Central Siberia using a modification of the normalised difference water index

The boreal forest contains almost half the total carbon pool of world forest ecosystems, and so has a very significant role in global biogeochemical cycles. The flux of greenhouse gases in and out of these forests is influenced strongly by disturbances such as diseases, logging and predominantly fire. It is important to quantify these disturbances to enable the modelling of major greenhouse gases. However, because of the remoteness and vastness of the boreal forest, little data is available on the type, extent, frequency and severity of these disturbances in Siberia. For burnt areas, two of the more responsive wavelengths are the short wave infra-red (SWIR) and the near infra-red (NIR). These produce a vegetation index, the normalised difference SWIR (NDSWIR) capable of detecting retrospective disturbances. Here we combine the NDSWIR from MODIS imagery acquired in the summer of 2003 with thermal anomaly data from 1992 to 2003 to detect and date areas which burnt at some point between 1992 and 2003. The semi-automated method is called SWIR and Thermal ANomalies for Detecting Disturbances (STANDD) and is complemented by an Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) differencing method using MODIS 2002 and 2003 imagery to ensure reliable detection of area burnt in the year of image acquisition (i.e. 2003). The area of this study covers approximately 3 million km² stretching from Lake Baikal in the south to the Laptev Sea in the north, above the Arctic Circle. Landsat ETM+ images were used to validate the shape and areal extent of the burnt areas resulting in an 81% overall accuracy with a kappa coefficient of agreement of 0.63.     

Sea-air flux of CO2 in the Caribbean Sea estimated using in situ and remote sensing data

Empirical relationships between sea surface carbon dioxide fugacity (fCO₂^sw) and sea surface temperature (SST) were applied to datasets of remotely sensed SST to create fCO₂^sw fields in the Caribbean Sea. SST datasets from different sensors were used, as well as the SST fields created by optimum interpolation of bias corrected AVHRR data. Empirical relationships were derived using shipboard fCO₂^sw data, in situ SST data, and SST data from the remote sensing platforms. The results show that the application of a relationship based on shipboard SST data, on fields of remotely sensed SST yields biased fCO₂^sw values. This bias is reduced if the fCO₂^sw-SST relationships are derived using the same SST data that are used to create the SST fields. The fCO₂^sw fields found to best reproduce observed fCO₂^sw are used in combination with wind speed data from QuikSCAT to create weekly maps of the sea-air CO₂ flux in the Caribbean Sea in 2002. The region to the SW of Cuba was a source of CO₂ to the atmosphere throughout 2002, and the region to the NE was a sink during winter and spring and a source during summer and fall. The net uptake of CO₂ in the region was doubled when potential skin layer effects on fCO₂^sw were taken into account.     

MODIS动态监测黄河宁蒙河段凌情的技术与方法

黄河宁夏河段和内蒙古河段（以下简称宁蒙河段）的凌情是我国大江大河中的一种特殊水文现象，由于凌情引发的凌汛灾害危害巨大，防凌历来是防汛部门的重要任务。在分析黄河宁蒙河道特点、MODIS卫星遥感数据特点和该河段所在区域天气状况的基础上，提出了MODIS遥感动态监测宁蒙河段凌情的技术与方法，研究和应用表明MODIS卫星遥感技术能够实现宁蒙河段凌情实时动态监测，在动态监测封开河长度、壅水漫滩等方面效果显著。     

Mapping surface temperature in large lakes with MODIS data

Satellite sensor MODIS on two platforms can produce Sea Surface Temperature over certain regions about three to four times per day. Our objective was to test if the MODIS SST product can be applied for lakes whose surface areas are large enough to be observed at the MODIS spatial resolution and to compare the satellite-derived lake surface temperatures with in situ measurements. Surface temperatures for Lakes Vänern and Vättern in Sweden, two of the largest European lakes, are extracted from the MODIS/Terra images for period 2001-2003. The results are analyzed on different quality levels, as all MODIS L2 products are equipped with an additional quality flag. We present temperature development over 2001-2003, and show the capability of the MODIS SST product to couple the known thermodynamical features in the lakes under study, where temperature varies greatly with space and time. These results can complement lake monitoring programs anywhere.     

遥感数据时空融合技术在农作物监测中的适应性研究

受卫星回访周期及云的影响,大范围研究区同一时期的Landsat卫星数据很难获取,因而国内外学者提出了遥感影像时空融合技术。以石河子为实验区,利用STARFM(Spatial and Temporal Adaptive Reflectance Fusion Model)模型融合生成了高时空分辨率TM影像,对不同作物类型真实反射率与融合影像反射率作相关性分析,分析了遥感数据时空融合技术在新疆农作物监测中的适用性。结果表明:利用STARFM模型模拟得到的融合影像与真实影像间的相关性较高,但当地物类型发生变化时,融合影像与真实影像间将存在明显的差异。地物类型变化作物融合影像反射率与真实影像反射率间的相关性较小。     

Interannual and intra-annual cycles of satellite-derived chlorophyll-a concentrations in the Caspian Sea

Variability of phytoplankton in the Caspian Sea (CS) is related to the complex orography, the variety of physical and chemical processes, and climatic indices. Here, interannual and intra-annual variability of satellite-derived chlorophyll-a concentrations (Chl-a) were studied using wavelet analysis during 2002–2019 in different regions of the CS. Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) analysis performed to classify the CS into the areas of similar variability of satellite-derived Chl-a. Wavelet spectral analysis showed that the Chl-a variability regulated by four primary periodic cycles: 0.5-year, 1-year, 2 to 2.5-year, and 3 to 5-year. The 0.5 and 1-year wavelet cycles mostly depicted the intensity of seasonality patterns. The 2–2.5-year and 3–5-year cycles of Chl-a showed non-stationary coherence with corresponding low-frequency cycles of NAO and ENSO. The 3–5-year wavelet amplitudes of Chl-a strongly correlated with NAO and ENSO in the southern CS. Weak correlations of 2–2.5-year cycle wavelet amplitudes of Chl-a with NAO and ENSO suggested that variations do not always directly translate to a biological response. A negative anomaly in the Chl-a autumn peaks observed during 2011–2016 in the middle and southern CS, when NAO phases were persistently positive. The interannual variations of summer peaks in the northern CS, and autumn peaks in the middle and southern CS were broadly related to the precipitation. SST and wind stress. Moreover, it was shown that the Volga discharge has a significant influence on Chl-a variability in the northern CS.     

MODIS数据Bowtie效应消除算法

MODIS数据不仅具有较高的过境频率和光谱分辨率,还具有成本低、覆盖面广等优势。受地球曲率的影响,MODIS L1B数据大多存在一种重叠效应,即Bowtie效应,主要发生在图像的边缘地带,该效应制约了MODIS遥感数据的进一步分析及应用。针对遥感影像几何畸变问题,提出一种不基于传统星历表的Bowtie效应消除算法,采用相关系数法确定每个扫描带的重复行数,根据不同分辨率的MODIS L1B数据,使用相对应的重采样方法对图像进行重采样处理。通过与其他Bowtie效应消除算法的对比实验及分析,证明该算法不仅能够有效去除Bowtie效应,而且执行速度较快,具有较高的工程应用价值。     

京津唐地区城市化对植被物候的影响研究

城市化过程使得土地利用、地表植被覆盖发生着显著的变化,如何定量化描述城市化对植被物候的影响越来越受到各方的关注。基于京津唐地区2001~2006年NDVI时间序列影像,得出了京津唐地区植被物候空间分布格局,计算出北京、天津、唐山3个核心城市城区的距离变量与平均植被物候,并分析了城市化对植被物候指标的影响趋势。结果表明:①2001~2006年,北京城市化使得城区及离城区较近的地方植被生长开始时间提前、结束时间推后、生长季周期变长、NDVI振幅减小;②天津和唐山的城市化使得城区及离城区较近的地方植被生长开始时间延后、结束时间提前、生长季周期变短\,NDVI振幅减小;③城市化对植被物候的影响与该地区城市扩张类型存在相关性关系。     

2000—2008年长白山地区EVI变化特征研究

利用2000—2008年250 m分辨率MODIS EVI数据,结合谐波分析、影像处理和多种统计方法分析长白山地区的植被覆盖年内和年际变化特征,并结合区划图和植被类型图对不同区域和不同植被类型的植被覆盖变化进行分析.分析显示:近9年长白山地区植被覆盖总体呈上升趋势,其中夏季上升最为显著;和龙林业局的植被覆盖较好,长白山保护区和白河林业局的植被覆盖处于较高的增长趋势,而朝鲜一侧的植被覆盖较差且增长缓慢;阔叶林和针阔混交林的植被覆盖高于针叶林、荒草地、沼泽地、高山岳桦林和高山苔原,其中高山岳桦林和高山苔原的植被覆盖正处于较快的增长趋势.     

利用MODIS数据反演渤海海冰分布

渤海每年都有冰情出现,如何对冰情进行监测是一个重要问题。遥感技术在监测冰情中具有明显优势。利用2006年2月8日MODIS数据,采用比值算法,有效地区分了海冰与海水、云。针对海冰与悬浮物难于区分的问题,采用海冰表面温度反演算法,对结果进行订正,很好地得到了渤海海冰的分布范围。