全球典型植被叶片光谱特征及其对LAI反演的影响分析

在全球范围长时间序列LAI遥感产品反演算法中,植被冠层反射率模型仅使用少量叶片光谱特征代表全球植被全年的典型植被光谱特征,叶片光谱的不确定性导致LAI遥感产品存在一定的误差。目前全球已经构建了多个典型植被叶片波谱数据集,这些数据集包含多个植被物种、不同空间地域及多时相叶片光谱数据,为定量分析叶片光谱特征提供了数据支持。主要利用LOPEX’93、ANGERS’03、中国典型地物波谱数据库和野外实测的叶片光谱数据,以黄边参数、红边参数和叶片光谱指数作为分析指标,探讨不同植被物种、不同气候区和不同物候期的叶片光谱特征差异,及其对植被冠层反射率、LAI反演的影响,为发展考虑现实叶片光谱差异的LAI反演算法提供研究基础。结果表明:植被叶片光谱存在多样性,叶片光谱特征差异主要影响MODIS传感器近红外波段和绿波段反射率值,其中,绿波段反射率值对叶片光谱变化最为敏感;在LAI反演算法中,如果只考虑植被类型而不考虑物种叶片光谱差异,可能会给LAI反演带来大于3的误差。     

不同氮素水平油菜冠层反射光谱特征研究

2002～2003年油菜生长季节,在浙江大学实验农场设置了4个品种、3个供氮水平处理、3个重复的油菜田间小区试验,测定了不同发育时期的冠层光谱反射率及对应叶片、茎以及角果的鲜重和干重。结果表明：不同供氮水平的油菜冠层和叶片光谱差异明显,冠层光谱反射率随发育期推移,开花前在可见光范围逐渐降低、在近红外区域逐渐增大,开花后在可见光范围逐渐增大,在近红外区域逐渐降低。不同供氮水平的油菜冠层光谱差异明显,4个品种的油菜具有相似的变化规律,在近红外表现尤其明显,随着供氮水平的增加,光谱反射率明显升高;而在可见光波段处,随供氮水平提高,反射率反而降低。前期随发育期推移,NDVI和RVI都逐渐增大,在4月22日达到最大,其中N2和N3在4月14日受开花影响,NDVI和RVI有所降低。4月22日以后,由于后期叶片衰老变黄,NDVI和RVI都逐渐减小。     

那曲典型草地植被光谱特征分析

遥感是大尺度生态研究的重要工具之一,而地面植物群落特征与其光谱特征之间的关系是解译遥感影像的关键。地面实测数据由于其高空间分辨率和高光谱分辨率,能够准确反映地物光谱信息,可以用来指导卫星遥感解译工作,同时为遥感监测草地退化、草地模型建立等提供数据支持。选取西藏那曲地区的优势植被类型作为研究对象,利用ASD FieldSpec 3便携式光谱仪测定优势种的冠层光谱并进行比较,并取其中一种优势种测量其在不同覆盖度和不同生长期的光谱反射特点。研究结果表明:①不同植被群落冠层光谱具有特殊的光谱曲线,可见光波段光谱反射率依次是紫花针茅、小嵩草和藏北嵩草,近红外波段光谱反射率则依次是小嵩草、藏北嵩草和紫花针茅;红边位置可以识别藏北嵩草,但是不能区分小嵩草和紫花针茅;②不同覆盖度的小嵩草红边、“绿峰”位置不随覆盖度的变化而发生变化;连续统去除后得到吸收深度随覆盖度的增加而变大,吸收峰面积随覆盖度的增加而增加;③小嵩草衰退期内,在可见光波段和红边波段,冠层光谱反射率随着叶绿素含量的减少而下降,出现“红边蓝移,绿峰下降”的现象。     

冬小麦冠层光谱红边参数的变化及其与氮素含量的相关分析

通过对不同氮肥条件下的小麦植株由上而下进行器官疏剪,分析了不同处理下冠层光谱反射率及其红边参数的变化。结果表明,冠层光谱反射率因不同肥力、不同疏剪处理而有较大的差异,表现出不同程度的红边的“红移”和“蓝移”现象。各处理的红边曲线形状均出现双峰现象,表现为第二个峰值高于第一个峰值,并且均为N1>N2>N0。相关分析表明,随着由上而下的疏剪处理,不同叶位叶片光谱反射率对冠层光谱的贡献增加,并且其红边参数与相应的叶片全氮含量的相关系数也增加,部分达到显著或极显著相关水平。该结果为利用下部缺素敏感叶片的光谱特征进行小麦养分的及时补充提供了可靠的理论依据。     

水稻冠层光谱特征及其与LAI的关系研究

氮素营养是影响作物生长与产量的最主要限制因子之一。准确及时地监测或诊断出作物氮素营养状况,对提高氮素利用效率和作物管理水平、减少过度施氮造成的环境污染具有重要意义。本研究在不同施氮水平处理的水稻试验小区,对水稻整个生长期内冠层反射光谱进行了较系统、密集的测定,同时测定了几个重要生育期水稻的叶面积指数。研究结果表明:随着施氮量的增加,水稻冠层光谱在各生育期间呈现出一定的规律性,在近红外部分(710～1 220 nm),冠层光谱反射率随着施氮水平的提高而升高,而在可见光部分(460～680 nm),水稻冠层的光谱反射率反而逐渐降低。经冠层光谱差异显著性检验发现:水稻灌浆期以前,对施氮水平最为敏感的波段是绿光(560～610 nm)和近红外(710～760 nm)部分;转换为归一化植被指数(NDVI)以后,差异最显著的是(R760-R560)/(R760+R560)。不同氮肥处理的水稻LAI随时间变化曲线大致都呈抛物线型,中低水平施氮肥水稻LAI随时间的变化曲线比较平缓,而高水平施氮肥LAI曲线则变化比较剧烈。冠层光谱反射与叶面积的相关分析结果表明:在水稻抽穗前,叶面积与冠层光谱反射率相关性较差;而抽穗后,叶面积与冠层光谱有较高的相关性。     

土壤背景对冠层NDVI的影响分析

归一化差值植被指数NDVI是植被遥感中应用最为广泛的指数之一, 但它受土壤背景等因素的干扰比较强烈。结合实测的土壤数据以及公式推导、PROSAIL 模型模拟等方法分析了这种影响。首先, 假定与土壤线性混合且叶片呈水平分布的植被冠层, 根据土壤与植被分别在红光、近红外波段处的反射率值、植被覆盖度等参数, 利用公式推导了土壤背景对不同覆盖度下冠层NDVI的影响。其次, 利用PROSAIL冠层光谱模拟模型, 模拟分析了土壤背景对不同LAI下冠层NDVI的影响。分析的结果表明:LAI 越小, 土壤背景的影响越大; 暗土壤背景下的冠层NDVI值大于亮土壤背景下冠层的NDVI值; 并且,暗土壤条件下,NDVI值对土壤亮度的变化更敏感,而亮土壤下,NDVI值则对LAI或覆盖度的变化更敏感。最后利用实测的不同土壤背景下的冬小麦冠层光谱数据, 验证了公式推导和模型模拟的结果。     

不同覆盖度下小麦农田土壤对NDVI影响模拟分析

生长于不同土壤类型背景条件下的相同长势小麦农田遥感像元尺度的归一化植被指数(NDVI)有很大差异,也一直困扰着利用NDVI进行小麦长势有效监测和精确评价。拟定小麦冠层光谱不变即小麦冠层NDVI为一常数条件下,选择反射率差异较大的我国9种典型土壤类型作为土壤背景,由小麦冠层和土壤背景的不同线性混合比模拟计算遥感像元尺度上的植被覆盖度,研究不同土壤类型背景对小麦农田NDVI信息的影响。研究结果表明:同一土壤类型背景条件下,随着植被覆盖度逐渐增加,小麦农田NDVI总体表现为增长的趋势,反之亦然;不同类型土壤背景对小麦农田NDVI造成很大差异,当植被覆盖度大于25%时,随着植被覆盖度的增加对小麦农田NDVI影响差异性逐渐减小;不同类型土壤背景也导致小麦农田NDVI对植被覆盖度的敏感性有明显差异,较低反射率土壤背景条件下的敏感性随着植被覆盖度增长呈现曲线下降的趋势,较高反射率土壤背景条件下敏感性随着植被覆盖度的增长而单调增加,为不同类型土壤背景的各小麦生长期遥感NDVI信息估算频次选择提供依据。     

祁连山区植被净初级生产力的空间变化特征分析

基于MODIS数据分析了2000~2010年祁连山区植被净初级生产力(Net Primary Productivity,NPP)的空间变化特征。结果显示:祁连山区植被NPP并不高,多年平均植被NPP仅为121.95gC/(m2·a),自东向西植被NPP逐渐减少。不同植被类型其NPP具有明显差异,大体上为:常绿阔叶林平原草地常绿针叶林典型草地农田高寒草甸草地荒漠草地落叶针叶林。祁连山区植被NPP变化在区域间也存在差异。植被NPP呈增长趋势的地区主要分布在青海年南山、拉脊山、达坂山和青海湖及其西侧,约占47.30%;乌鞘岭东部及以东的地区(约占1.97%)植被NPP呈减少趋势。降水是祁连山区植被NPP变化的主要因素,气温对植被NPP的影响并不明显,不合理的人类活动可能是造成部分区域植被NPP减少的重要原因。     

2001年～2010年重庆地区植被NPP时空变化特征及其与气候因子的关系

以2001年～2010年MOD17A3的年均NPP数据为基础,利用GIS技术定量分析了重庆地区植被NPP的时空变化特征及与气候因子的相关性,结果表明:2001年～2010年重庆地区植被NPP整体呈微弱上升趋势,植被覆盖略有增加,且总体分布呈现从南到北递减的趋势;重庆地区植被NPP增加幅度由南到北递减且整体变化幅度较小,仅部分区县变化幅度较大.不同的植被类型的NPP存在差异,其NPP大小顺序为:常绿阔叶林＞草地＞农田植被＞混生林＞常绿针叶林＞落叶阔叶林＞落叶针叶林＞灌丛.就气候因子与植被NPP的相关性而言,NPP与气温的相关性不明显,NPP与降水的相关显著性存在空间差异.     

GEDI地面高程和森林冠层高度的精度评价与影响分析

精确地提取地面高程和植被冠层高度,对于地形地貌、生态学等方面的研究具有重要意义。2018年12月发射的新一代全球生态系统动力学调查雷达（GEDI）为地面高程和植被冠层高度大范围精确提取提供了前所未有的机会。研究旨在利用机载激光雷达数据验证GEDI提取的地面高程和冠层高度精度,并探讨地理定位误差、地形坡度、坡向、植被覆盖度、方位角、采集时间、光束类型和不同森林类型因素对其精度的影响。结果表明：通过校正GEDI数据地理定位误差,可以明显提高其提取的地面高程和冠层高度精度;影响冠层高度提取精度最主要的因素是植被覆盖度,其次是坡度;影响地面高程提取精度的主要因素为坡向、坡度。植被覆盖度大于25%时,数据精度更高;坡度为0°—5°的缓坡地区地面高程和冠层高度精度最高。该研究结果将为GEDI数据筛选与应用提供依据。     

Canopy spectral invariants for remote sensing and model applications

The concept of canopy spectral invariants expresses the observation that simple algebraic combinations of leaf and canopy spectral transmittance and reflectance become wavelength independent and determine a small set of canopy structure specific variables. This set includes the canopy interceptance, the recollision and the escape probabilities. These variables specify an accurate relationship between the spectral response of a vegetation canopy to the incident solar radiation at the leaf and the canopy scale and allow for a simple and accurate parameterization for the partitioning of the incoming radiation into canopy transmission, reflection and absorption at any wavelength in the solar spectrum. This paper presents a solid theoretical basis for spectral invariant relationships reported in literature with an emphasis on their accuracies in describing the shortwave radiative properties of the three-dimensional vegetation canopies. The analysis of data on leaf and canopy spectral transmittance and reflectance collected during the international field campaign in Flakaliden, Sweden, June 25-July 4, 2002 supports the proposed theory. The results presented here are essential to both modeling and remote sensing communities because they allow the separation of the structural and radiometric components of the measured/modeled signal. The canopy spectral invariants offer a simple and accurate parameterization for the shortwave radiation block in many global models of climate, hydrology, biogeochemistry, and ecology. In remote sensing applications, the information content of hyperspectral data can be fully exploited if the wavelength-independent variables can be retrieved, for they can be more directly related to structural characteristics of the three-dimensional vegetation canopy.     

Evaluation of hyperspectral indices for retrieval of canopy equivalent water thickness and gravimetric water content

There are two main parameters describing the amount of water in vegetation: the gravimetric water content (GWC) and the equivalent water thickness (EWT). In this study, we investigated the applicability of hyperspectral water-sensitive indices from canopy spectra for estimating canopy EWT (CEWT) and GWC. First, the spectral reflectance’s response to different levels of canopy water content was analysed and a noticeable increase in the slope of the near-infrared (NIR) shoulder of the canopy spectrum was observed. Next, the correlation between the CEWT and various hyperspectral water-sensitive indices was investigated. It was found that all of the indices could retrieve the CEWT of winter wheat well, with the coefficients of determination (R²) all being higher than 0.80. Finally, the retrieval performance of these indices for canopy GWC was evaluated and no significant correlation was observed between canopy GWC and the water-sensitive indices except for the spectral ratio index in the NIR shoulder region (NSRI). These results showed that the traditional water-sensitive vegetation indices are more sensitive to CEWT than to GWC, especially when the LAI is not highly correlated with the GWC, and that the NSRI is a potential vegetation index for use in the retrieval of GWC.     

浅析遥感光谱特征参量的原理及基本方法

概述了导数光谱、红边参数、光谱吸收特征以及光谱反射特征等遥感光谱特征参量的原理及基本方法,总结和分析了这些参量在植被领域中的应用动态,提出了遥感技术存在的问题及其应用展望,遥感光谱特征参量能够为植被理化信息的提取提供强有力的工具。     

Hyperspectral vegetation indices and novel algorithms for predicting green LAI of crop canopies: Modeling and validation in the context of precision agriculture

A growing number of studies have focused on evaluating spectral indices in terms of their sensitivity to vegetation biophysical parameters, as well as to external factors affecting canopy reflectance. In this context, leaf and canopy radiative transfer models are valuable for modeling and understanding the behavior of such indices. In the present work, PROSPECT and SAILH models have been used to simulate a wide range of crop canopy reflectances in an attempt to study the sensitivity of a set of vegetation indices to green leaf area index (LAI), and to modify some of them in order to enhance their responsivity to LAI variations. The aim of the paper was to present a method for minimizing the effect of leaf chlorophyll content on the prediction of green LAI, and to develop new algorithms that adequately predict the LAI of crop canopies. Analyses based on both simulated and real hyperspectral data were carried out to compare performances of existing vegetation indices (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index [NDVI], Renormalized Difference Vegetation Index [RDVI], Modified Simple Ratio [MSR], Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index [SAVI], Soil and Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index [SARVI], MSAVI, Triangular Vegetation Index [TVI], and Modified Chlorophyll Absorption Ratio Index [MCARI]) and to design new ones (MTVI1, MCARI1, MTVI2, and MCARI2) that are both less sensitive to chlorophyll content variations and linearly related to green LAI. Thorough analyses showed that the above existing vegetation indices were either sensitive to chlorophyll concentration changes or affected by saturation at high LAI levels. Conversely, two of the spectral indices developed as a part of this study, a modified triangular vegetation index (MTVI2) and a modified chlorophyll absorption ratio index (MCARI2), proved to be the best predictors of green LAI. Related predictive algorithms were tested on CASI (Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager) hyperspectral images and, then, validated using ground truth measurements. The latter were collected simultaneously with image acquisition for different crop types (soybean, corn, and wheat), at different growth stages, and under various fertilization treatments. Prediction power analysis of proposed algorithms based on MCARI2 and MTVI2 resulted in agreements between modeled and ground measurement of non-destructive LAI, with coefficients of determination (r²) being 0.98 for soybean, 0.89 for corn, and 0.74 for wheat. The corresponding RMSE for LAI were estimated at 0.28, 0.46, and 0.85, respectively.     

Soil and Sun angle interactions on partial canopy spectra

Abstract

The spectral behaviour of an incomplete cotton canopy was analysed in relation to solar zenith angle and soil background variations. Soil and vegetation spectral contributions towards canopy response were separated using a first-order interactive model and consequently used to compare the relative sensitivity of canopy spectra to soil background and solar angle differences. Canopy reflectance behaviour with solar angle increased, decreased or remained invariant depending on the reflectance properties of the underlying soil. Sunlit and shaded soil contributions were found to alter vegetation index behaviour significantly over different Sun angles.     

Evaluation of hyperspectral data for pasture estimate in the Brazilian Amazon using field and imaging spectrometers

We used two hyperspectral sensors at two different scales to test their potential to estimate biophysical properties of grazed pastures in Rondônia in the Brazilian Amazon. Using a field spectrometer, ten remotely sensed measurements (i.e., two vegetation indices, four fractions of spectral mixture analysis, and four spectral absorption features) were generated for two grass species, Brachiaria brizantha and Brachiaria decumbens. These measures were compared to above ground biomass, live and senesced biomass, and grass canopy water content. The sample size was 69 samples for field grass biophysical data and grass canopy reflectance. Water absorption measures between 1100 and 1250 nm had the highest correlations with above ground biomass, live biomass and canopy water content, while ligno-cellulose absorption measures between 2045 and 2218 nm were the best for estimating senesced biomass. These results suggest possible improvements on estimating grass measures using spectral absorption features derived from hyperspectral sensors. However, relationships were highly influenced by grass species architecture. B. decumbens, a more homogeneous, low growing species, had higher correlations between remotely sensed measures and biomass than B. brizantha, a more heterogeneous, vertically oriented species. The potential of using the Earth Observing-1 Hyperion data for pasture characterization was assessed and validated using field spectrometer and CCD camera data. Hyperion-derived NPV fraction provided better estimates of grass surface fraction compared to fractions generated from convolved ETM+/Landsat 7 data and minimized the problem of spectral ambiguity between NPV and Soil. The results suggest possible improvement of the quality of land-cover maps compared to maps made using multispectral sensors for the Amazon region.     

Canopy blockage and scattering effects on apparent soil spectral reflectance and its consequence in spectral mixture analysis of vegetated surfaces

Remote sensing technique has become the most efficient and common approach to estimate surface vegetation cover. Among various remote sensing algorithms, spectral mixture analysis (SMA) is the most common approach to obtain sub‐pixel surface coverage. In the SMA, spectral endmembers (the number of endmembers may vary), with invariant spectral reflectance across the whole image, are needed to conduct the mixture procedure. Although the nonlinear effect in quantifying vegetation spectral reflectance was noticed and sometimes addressed in the SMA analysis, the nonlinear effect in soil spectral reflectance is seldom discussed in the literature. In this paper, we investigate the effects of vegetation canopy on the inter‐canopy soil spectral reflectance via mathematical modelling and field measurements. We identify two mechanisms that lead to the difference between remotely sensed apparent soil spectral reflectance and actual soil spectral reflectance. One is a canopy blockage effect, leading to a reduced apparent soil spectral reflectance. The other is a canopy scattering effect, leading to an increased apparent soil spectral reflectance. Without correction, the first (second) mechanism causes an overestimated (underestimated) areal coverage of the low‐spectral‐reflectance endmember. The overall effect of canopy to soil, however, tends to overestimate fractional vegetation cover due to the relative significance of the canopy blockage effect, even though the two mechanisms vary with spectral wavelengths and spectral difference between different vegetation and soil. For the SMA of vegetated surface using multiple‐spectral remote sensing imagery (e.g., LandSat), it is recommended that infrared bands of low vegetation spectral reflectance (e.g. band 7) be first considered; if both visible and infrared bands are used, combination of bands 3, 4, and 5 is appropriate, while use of all six bands could overestimate fraction vegetation cover.