基于像元与对象分类的景观指数差异性分析

景观指数分析是进行遥感监测土地利用及变化空间格局的重要方法之一,而因为遥感分类方法的不同,所计算出的同一景观指数所揭示的土地变化模式可能出现较大差异。以北京市密云县为研究区,对影像分别进行了面向对象分类与基于像元的监督分类,并对两种分类进行景观指数计算,利用配对样本t检验方法对各景观指数进行了差异显著性分析。分析结果显示地类面积比例(PLAND)和最大斑块指数(LPI)在两种分类方法之间差异不显著;边缘密度(ED)略有显著差异性;而斑块数量(NP)、斑块面积平均值(AREA_MN)、聚合度(AI)与周长面积分维数(PAFRAC)在两种分类方法之间差异显著。     

基于ETM+热红外遥感的武汉市城市地温反演研究

利用ERDAS及ArcGIS软件,通过影像预处理、影像解译,最终提取城区土地分类信息;由单窗算法,以大气辐射传输方程简化的单波段地表温度反演算法为基础,对武汉市2002年ETM+热红外遥感影像及相关气象资料进行地面亮温反演和不同土地利用类型的热效应定量评价研究.研究中采用了基于归一化差值植被指数和基于地表分类相结合的方法确定地表发射率;地温反演引入了热效应贡献度和区域热单元权重指数,对不同地表类型的热贡献度以及植被覆盖与地表温度的关系进行分析.     

多源参数在晋江城市热岛分析中的差异性

城市热岛遥感监测分析中,不同参数与指标得到的热岛时空分布结果不同。针对过去研究仅利用遥感反演地表温度或亮度温度监测城市热岛现象,以福建省晋江市为研究区,选择2010年与2014年夏季Landsat数据,结合数字高程数据和气象站点实测数据,反演晋江市域内地表温度与近地表气温。在此基础上,利用多源参数计算多种城市热岛监测指标,并对比分析这些指标用于晋江城市热岛研究的差异性。结果表明:1)2014年较2010年的城市热岛范围扩大,区域内热岛比例显著上升,热岛斑块面积增多且热岛等级增强;2)相对于地表温度,近地表气温用于评价城市热岛空间分布更为合理;3)不同热岛监测指标作用不同,热岛强度、归一化热场强度可以在空间上直接表明热岛空间分布及强弱,热岛比例指数则在数值上反映了不同区域热岛现象的发生概率,热岛源汇指数结合地表热参数和土地覆盖类型,反映了土地利用变化对区域内热岛效应加剧或减缓的贡献程度。     

广州市地表温度反演与土地利用覆盖变化关系研究

利用环境星1A/1B遥感影像,运用Jiménez-Munoz & Sobrino's普适性单通道算法定量反演广州市的地表温度(Land Surface Temperature,LST) ,结合MNF主成分分析和支持向量机获取的不透水面分布格局,利用面向对象分类方法获得了土地利用覆盖情况,重点研究广州市不透水面、土地覆盖和植被指数与城市热环境的定量关系。研究结果显示:基于大气水汽含量实测数据的JM&S普适性单通道算法反演结果更精确;广州市2009~2011年的不透水面面积和土地覆盖与平均地表温度相关性分析表明:广州市连续3 a呈现城市扩张的现象,城市热效应显著加剧;城市平均地表温度与不透水面面积呈现正相关,与城市的植被指数和裸土指数呈现负相关。     

基于遥感数据的城市地表温度与土地覆盖定量研究

利用Landsat TM数据,以徐州市为研究区,采用单窗算法反演地表温度,通过混合像元分解和V-I-S(植被—不透水面层—土壤)模型将土地覆盖类型分解为对城市热环境具有重要影响的植被、土壤、不透水面层3个分量,最后利用得到的3种地物比例、直接分类后的土地覆盖类型和地表温度对研究区城市热岛的空间分布特征、地表温度与土地覆盖类型以及各种影响因子之间的关系进行定量研究。研究成果能够有效地应用于城市人居环境研究和生态环境过程分析中。     

河谷型城市土地利用类型及格局的热环境效应遥感分析——以兰州市为例

以河谷型城市兰州为例,采用Landsat ETM+遥感影像为基本数据源,定量反演了地表温度（LST）和植被指数（NDVI）,利用GIS空间分析方法,分析了LST和NDVI 在不同土地利用类型之间的差异以及二者之间的定量关系,并引入多样性和聚集度指数,讨论了在不同土地利用的空间组合下,LST和NDVI 的空间差异及相互关系。结果显示:LST和NDVI具有明显的相关性,中心城区LST表现出热岛效应,而NDVI则为低谷效应;土地利用斑块和类型两种尺度水平上LST和NDVI均具有明显负相关的线性关系,城市内部不同土地类型所产生的热环境效应不同;土地利用多样性越丰富、聚集度越小的区域,其温度对地表植被覆盖的敏感性越弱。     

利用Landsat-8影像的南昌地区热岛效应研究

针对南昌地区热岛效应问题,提出采用改进的单窗算法反演地表温度,在利用实测数据验证了本算法可靠性的同时,分析了南昌地区热岛效应的空间分布与季节变化特征及其与植被覆盖度、土地利用分类、水体等影响因子之间的关系。结果表明,该文所用单窗算法是有效的,南昌地区热岛时空现象明显,秋季的热岛效应强度最强,冬春季次之,夏季最弱。不同土地利用类型对热岛效应影响不同;地表温度与植被覆盖度之间存在明显的负线性相关;水体对降低地表温度效果显著。     

基于遥感和GIS的西安市土地利用时空变化研究

利用2000和2007年两期TM遥感影像,通过最大似然法、地理信息系统空间分析方法以及数理统计方法,借助Erdas Imagine 9.0、ArcGIS 9.2和Matlab软件平台,计算出西安市土地利用类型的动态转移矩阵;构建了土地利用程度变化指数、土地利用变化类型的多度和重要度指数等区域土地利用变化的指数模型,定量分析西安市土地利用时空变化。揭示了西安市土地利用差异以及土地利用空间变化的主要类型、分布特征和区域方向,阐明了西安市土地利用变化的区域特点,为土地可持续利用提供有效的决策支持。     

基于随机森林的遥感土地利用分类及景观格局分析

2009年福建平潭综合实验区设立,作为闽台合作及国家对外开放的窗口,其土地利用变化主要受社会经济因素的影响和自然地理环境的制约,也与未来的土地利用规划密切相关.本文利用1990、2000、2010和2017年4期Landsat遥感影像数据,定量分析近27年的土地利用变化对景观格局的影响.结果表明:(1)在选择合适训练样本的情况下,利用随机森林方法可获得较高的遥感土地利用分类精度(4期遥感影像分类的总体精度均在87%以上,Kappa系数均在0.84以上);(2)1990~2017年,水域面积急剧减少31.04 km2,流失的水域主要转化为建设用地和林地;建设用地增加40.98 km2,年平均增长1.52 km2.近十年呈快速增长趋势,年平均增长3.87 km2;(3)在斑块类型级别上,逐年增加的建设用地导致最大斑块占景观面积比例(LPI)、聚合度(AI)和边缘密度(ED)呈上升趋势,其中LPI受到建设用地增加的影响最显著.在景观类型级别上,多样性(SHDI)和景观形状(LSI)呈下降趋势.     

阳江市绿地空间分布及其热环境分析

鉴于Landsat-8热红外数据在城市绿地热环境方面研究的不足,提出一种参数修正后的单通道地表温度算法,可直接用于城市绿地热环境分析。研究以阳江市建成区为例,以Landsat-8的热红外波段为数据源,利用单通道算法反演地表温度,结合土地利用矢量数据计算得到的景观指数,将地表平均温度与绿地景观进行相关性分析。结果表明:Landsat-8能够提供较高空间分辨率的地表温度信息,适合用来研究区域性的城市热环境;绿地景观的组成和空间配置对城市热环境有一定的影响,其中植被覆盖度是地表温度的重要影响因子,以阳江市建成区实验数据为例,植被覆盖度增加10%,地表温度降低0.35℃;绿地斑块相近的地区,平均地表温度会随着斑块密度的增大而升高;不同绿地斑块对周围环境的改善能力有较大差异。     

Remote sensing image-based analysis of the relationship between urban heat island and land use/cover changes

Global warming has obtained more and more attention because the global mean surface temperature has increased since the late 19th century. As more than 50% of the human population lives in cities, urbanization has become an important contributor for global warming. Pearl River Delta (PRD) in Guangdong Province, southern China, is one of the regions experiencing rapid urbanization that has resulted in remarkable Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, which will be sure to influence the regional climate, environment, and socio-economic development. In this study, Landsat TM and ETM+ images from 1990 to 2000 in the PRD were selected to retrieve the brightness temperatures and land use/cover types. A new index, Normalized Difference Bareness Index (NDBaI), was proposed to extract bare land from the satellite images. Additionally, Shenzhen, which has experienced the fastest urbanization in Guangdong Province, was taken as an example to analyze the temperature distribution and changes within a large city as its size expanded in the past decade. Results show that the UHI effect has become more prominent in areas of rapid urbanization in the PRD region. The spatial distribution of heat islands has been changed from a mixed pattern, where bare land, semi-bare land and land under development were warmer than other surface types, to extensive UHI. Our analysis showed that higher temperature in the UHI was located with a scattered pattern, which was related to certain land-cover types. In order to analyze the relationship between UHI and land-cover changes, this study attempted to employ a quantitative approach in exploring the relationship between temperature and several indices, including the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI), Normalized Difference Bareness Index (NDBaI) and Normalized Difference Build-up Index (NDBI). It was found that correlations between NDVI, NDWI, NDBaI and temperature are negative when NDVI is limited in range, but positive correlation is shown between NDBI and temperature.     

Effects of minimum mapping unit on land cover data spatial configuration and composition

A key issue when generating a land cover map from remotely sensed data is the selection of the minimum mapping unit (MMU) to be employed, which determines the extent of detail contained in the map. This study analyses the effects of MMU in land cover spatial configuration and composition, by using simulated landscape thematic patterns generated by the Modified Random Clusters method. This approach allows a detailed control of the different factors influencing landscape metrics behaviour, as well as taking into account a wide range of land cover pattern possibilities. Land cover classes that are sparse and fragmented can be considerably misrepresented in the final map when increasing MMU, while the classes that occupy a large percentage of map area tend to become more dominant. Mean Patch Size and Number of Patches are very poor indicators of pattern fragmentation in this context. In contrast, Landscape Division (LD) and related indices (Splitting Index and Effective Mesh Size) are clearly suitable for comparing the fragmentation of landscape data with different MMUs. We suggest that the Mean Shape Index, the most sensitive to MMU of those considered in this study, should not be used in further landscape studies if land cover data with different MMU or patch size frequency distribution are to be compared. In contrast, the Area Weighted Mean Shape Index presents a very robust behaviour, which advocates the use of this index for the quantification of the overall irregularity of patch shapes in landscape spatial patterns. The results presented allow quantifying the biases resulting from selecting a certain MMU when generating a land cover dataset. In general, a bigger MMU implies underestimating landscape diversity and fragmentation, as well as over-estimating animal population dispersal success. Guidelines are provided for the proper use and comparison of spatial pattern indices measured in maps with different MMUs.     

Effects of Landscape Pattern on Annual Variation of Thermal Environment in Hangzhou

Taking the Hangzhou city as an example,this paper retrieves the urban land surface temperature (LST) using 4 Landsat ETM+/OLI_TIRS images and investigates the effects of landscape pattern on the urban thermal environment change.The hot spot analysis was used to identify both the urban heat island and cold island.Landscape pattern indices were adopted to analyze the relationship between the change of the thermal environment and the landscape pattern.Analysis results show that：(1) The proportions of area in urban heat island and cold island in Hangzhou increase first and then decrease with the alternating four seasons;The urban heat island of Hangzhou is the most significant in summer,and the urban cold island effect is more dominant in autumn;(2) Throughout the year,all kinds of landscape has the highest average land surface temperature in summer and the lowest in winter;As for a variety of landscapes,the construction land has the highest average land surface temperature,while,the water body and forest have the relatively low average land surface temperature;(3)On the landscape level,the selected landscape pattern indices are significantly correlated with average land surface temperature in four seasons,the strength of correlation fluctuates with alternating four seasons and the enlargement of analysis window;On the class level,landscape pattern indices of construction land,water body and forest are significantly and highly correlated with average land surface temperature in different seasons.The research in our paper could help to lay out construction land rationally and execute planning and design on urban green space and waters to effectively alleviate the urban heat island effect of Hangzhou.     

Quantifying how landscape composition and configuration affect urban land surface temperatures using machine learning and neutral landscapes

The urban heat island effect is an important 21st century issue because it intersects with the complex challenges of urban population growth, global climate change, public health and increasing energy demand for cooling. While the effects of urban landscape composition on land surface temperature (LST) are well-studied, less attention has been paid to the spatial arrangement of land cover types especially in smaller, often more diverse cities. Landscape configuration is important because it offers the potential to provide refuge from excessive heat for both people and buildings.We present a novel approach to quantifying how both composition and configuration affect LST derived from Landsat imagery in Southampton, UK. First, we trained a machine-learning (generalized boosted regression) model to predict LST from landscape covariates that included the characteristics of the immediate pixel and its surroundings. The model achieved a correlation between predicted and measured LST of 0.956 on independent test data (n = 102,935) and included predictors for both the immediate and adjacent land use. In contrast to other studies, we found adjacency effects to be stronger than immediate effects at 30 m resolution. Next, we used a landscape generation tool (Landscape Generator) to alter landscape configuration by varying natural and built patch sizes and arrangements while holding composition constant. The generated neutral landscapes were then fed into the machine learning model to predict patterns of LST.When we manipulated landscape configuration, the average city temperature remained the same but the local minima varied by 0.9 °C and the maxima by 4.2 °C. The effects on LST and heat island metrics correlated with landscape fragmentation indices. Moreover, the surface temperature of buildings could be reduced by up to 2.1 °C through landscape manipulation.We found that the optimum mix of land use types is neither at the land-sharing nor land-sparing extremes, but a balance between the two. In our city, maximum cooling was achieved when ~60% of land was left natural and distributed in 7–8 patches km⁻² although this could be location dependent and further work is needed. Opportunities for urban cooling should be required in the planning process and must consider both composition and configuration at the landscape scale if cities are to build capacity for a growing population and climate change.     

Impacts of landscape structure on surface urban heat islands: A case study of Shanghai, China

Urbanization is taking place at an unprecedented rate around the world, particularly in China in the past few decades. One of the key impacts of rapid urbanization on the environment is the effect of urban heat island (UHI). Understanding the effects of landscape pattern on UHI is crucial for improving the ecology and sustainability of cities. This study investigated how landscape composition and configuration would affect UHI in the Shanghai metropolitan region of China, based on the analysis of land surface temperature (LST) in relation to normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), vegetation fraction (Fv), and percent impervious surface area (ISA). Two Landsat ETM+ images acquired on March 13 and July 2, 2001 were used to estimate LST, Fv, and percent ISA. Landscape metrics were calculated from a high spatial resolution (2.5 × 2.5 m) land-cover/land-use map. Our results have showed that, although there are significant variations in LST at a given fraction of vegetation or impervious surface on a per-pixel basis, NDVI, Fv, and percent ISA are all good predictors of LST on the regional scale. There is a strong negative linear relationship between LST and positive NDVI over the region. Similar but stronger negative linear relationship exists between LST and Fv. Urban vegetation could mitigate the surface UHI better in summer than in early spring. A strong positive relationship exists between mean LST and percent ISA. The residential land is the biggest contributor to UHI, followed by industrial land. Although industrial land has the highest LST, it has limited contribution to the overall surface UHI due to its small spatial extend in Shanghai. Among the residential land-uses, areas with low- to-middle-rise buildings and low vegetation cover have much high temperatures than areas with high-rise buildings or areas with high vegetation cover. A strong correlation between the mean LST and landscape metrics indicates that urban landscape configuration also influences the surface UHI. These findings are helpful for understanding urban ecology as well as land use planning to minimize the potential environmental impacts of urbanization.     

Impacts of Urban land surface temperature on tract landscape pattern,physical and social variables

ABSTRACT

This paper first focuses on the study of the relationship between the urban heat island (UHI) and the selected physical variables (percentage of urban surface covers, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)) and social variables (population density (PDEN)), and then concentrates on the study of the relationship between UHI and the landscape spatial geometric patterns. The researched results discover that urban Land Surface Temperature (LST) is not only impacted by land cover composition, i.e. land use/cover, which is expressed in this paper as the PURB (commerce/industry/transportation), but also its spatial geometric configuration, i.e. various landscape geometric pattern metrics, which in this paper are expressed by compositional percentage of landscape area (PLAND), configurational edge density (ED), patch density (PD), landscape shape index (LSI), clumpiness index (CI), and Shannon’s diversity index (SHDI). The results show that the proportion of vegetation coverage out of a tract impacts its contribution to an entire UHI in Washington District of Columbia (DC), in particular, interspersing vegetation within a tract is capable of making a stronger mitigation effect to UHI than its concentrated form. Thus, a scatter spatial arrangement and distribution of vegetation is proposed to mitigate UHI effect.     

Modelling the diurnal variations of urban heat islands with multi-source satellite data

Examination of the diurnal variations in surface urban heat islands (UHIs) has been hindered by incompatible spatial and temporal resolutions of satellite data. In this study, a diurnal temperature cycle genetic algorithm (DTC-GA) approach was used to generate the hourly 1 km land-surface temperature (LST) by integrating multi-source satellite data. Diurnal variations of the UHI in ‘ideal’ weather conditions in the city of Beijing were examined. Results show that the DTC-GA approach was applicable for generating the hourly 1 km LSTs. In the summer diurnal cycle, the city experienced a weak UHI effect in the early morning and a significant UHI effect from morning to night. In the diurnal cycles of the other seasons, the city showed transitions between a significant UHI effect and weak UHI or urban heat sink effects. In all diurnal cycles, daytime UHIs varied significantly but night-time UHIs were stable. Heating/cooling rates, surface energy balance, and local land use and land cover contributed to the diurnal variations in UHI. Partial analysis shows that diurnal temperature range had the most significant influence on UHI, while strong negative correlations were found between UHI signature and urban and rural differences in the normalized difference vegetation index, albedo, and normalized difference water index. Different contributions of surface characteristics suggest that various strategies should be used to mitigate the UHI effect in different seasons.     

Spatial pattern analysis of land cover change trajectories in Tarim Basin,northwest China

This study attempts to develop a methodology to quantify spatial patterns of land cover change using landscape metrics. First, multitemporal land cover types are derived based on a unified land cover classification scheme and from the classification of multitemporal remotely sensed imagery. Categorical land cover change trajectories are then established and reclassified according to the nature and driving forces of the change. Finally, spatial pattern metrics of the land cover change trajectory classes are computed and their relationships to human activities and environmental factors are analysed. A case study in the middle reach of Tarim River in the arid zone of China from 1973 to 2000 shows that during the 30‐year study period, the natural force is dominant in environmental change, although the human impact through altering water resources and surface materials has increased dramatically in recent years. The human‐induced change trajectories generally show lower normalized landscape shape index (NLSI), interspersion and juxtaposition index (IJI) and area‐weighted mean patch fractal dimension (FARC_AM), indicating greater aggregation, less association with others and simpler and larger patches in shape, respectively. The results suggest that spatial pattern metrics of land cover change trajectories can provide a good quantitative measurement for better understanding of the spatio‐temporal pattern of land cover change due to different causes.     

Estimation of land surface temperature-vegetation abundance relationship for urban heat island studies

Remote sensing of urban heat islands (UHIs) has traditionally used the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as the indicator of vegetation abundance to estimate the land surface temperature (LST)-vegetation relationship. This study investigates the applicability of vegetation fraction derived from a spectral mixture model as an alternative indicator of vegetation abundance. This is based on examination of a Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) image of Indianapolis City, IN, USA, acquired on June 22, 2002. The transformed ETM+ image was unmixed into three fraction images (green vegetation, dry soil, and shade) with a constrained least-square solution. These fraction images were then used for land cover classification based on a hybrid classification procedure that combined maximum likelihood and decision tree algorithms. Results demonstrate that LST possessed a slightly stronger negative correlation with the unmixed vegetation fraction than with NDVI for all land cover types across the spatial resolution (30 to 960 m). Correlations reached their strongest at the 120-m resolution, which is believed to be the operational scale of LST, NDVI, and vegetation fraction images. Fractal analysis of image texture shows that the complexity of these images increased initially with pixel aggregation and peaked around 120 m, but decreased with further aggregation. The spatial variability of texture in LST was positively correlated with those in NDVI and in vegetation fraction. The interplay between thermal and vegetation dynamics in the context of different land cover types leads to the variations in spectral radiance and texture in LST. These variations are also present in the other imagery, and are responsible for the spatial patterns of urban heat islands. It is suggested that the areal measure of vegetation abundance by unmixed vegetation fraction has a more direct correspondence with the radiative, thermal, and moisture properties of the Earth's surface that determine LST.