Abstract
Spectral features (SFs) and texture features (TFs) extracted from optical remote sensing images can capture the structural composition and growth information of forests, and combining remote sensing variables with a few ground measurement samples is a common method for mapping forest stock volume (FSV). However, the accuracy of mapping FSV using optical images with a high spatial resolution (one meter or sub-meters) is often lower than medium resolutions (larger than 10 m) using the same types of features and approaches. To overcome the limitations of high spatial resolution images in mapping FSV, down-scaled images with spatial resolution ranging from 1 to 30 m were obtained by GF-2 image to interpret the relationships between spatial resolutions of features and the accuracy of mapping FSV, and combination strategies of variables with various spatial resolutions were proposed to improve the accuracy of mapping FSV. The results show that the spatial resolution of features significantly affects the performance of employed models in estimating FSV, the sensitivity between SFs and FSV gradually increases with the decreasing of spatial resolution, and the optimal spatial resolutions of two types of features (SFs and TFs) are not synchronized in mapping forest FSV. After using combination strategies of variables with various spatial resolutions, the accuracy of mapping FSV is significantly higher than those derived from variable sets with the same spatial resolutions. It is proved that TFs derived from GF-2 images have great potential to improve the accuracy of mapping FSV, and the contribution of features depends on the approaches of extracting and combination strategies.
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