Abstract
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is crucial for global climate change and China’s ecological security. Given recent drastic changes in vegetation from climate change and human activities, long-term vegetation monitoring is urgently required. This study produced the vegetation maps of the TP from 1990 to 2020 every ten years using random forest classifier and Landsat imagery. We selected the same stable samples and features for mapping to reduce errors between years and proposed spatial filtering to further improve the accuracy. The overall accuracy surpassed 95.00%, with all Kappa coefficients exceeding 0.95. A further assessment based on sampling sites from literature and field survey was higher than 80%. The importance ranking results indicated that in the TP, climate factors and terrain factors are the most important factors in the vegetation mapping. This study provides a method for mapping vegetation in alpine areas and data support for researching the dynamic change of vegetation on the TP and evaluating its response to climate change.
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