Abstract
This paper established a mathematical method for the spectral feature extraction of ratholes, based on UAV hyperspectral imaging technology. The degradation of grasslands is a major challenge to terrestrial ecosystems. Rodents not only promote soil erosion and accelerate the process of grassland degradation, but also carry diseases that can easily cause epidemics. The calculation of the number of rodent holes and grassland vegetation cover is an important indicator for monitoring and evaluating grassland degradation. Manual surveys have drawbacks in efficiently monitoring large areas and are human- and material-costly, hardly meeting the current needs of grassland degradation monitoring. Therefore, there is an urgent need to conduct real-time dynamic monitoring of grassland rathole distributions and grassland degradation processes. In this study, a low-altitude remote sensing platform was constructed by integrating a hyperspectral imager with a UAV to collect spectral data of the desert steppes in central Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. Then, the spectral features of ratholes were extracted via radiation correction, noise reduction, and principal component analysis (PCA). Meanwhile, the spectral features of vegetation and bare soil were extracted based on the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), which was inputted to calculate the vegetation cover. The results showed that the single-band map extracted based on PCA could effectively determine the location of ratholes, where the overall accuracy and kappa coefficient were 97% and 0.896, respectively. Therefore, the method proposed in this study can accurately identify the location of desert steppe rodent holes. It provides a high-precision technical means for scientific and effective control of grassland rodent infestation and also provides a higher technical means for grassland degradation.
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