Arid Zone Research ›› 2022, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (6): 1930-1941.doi: 10.13866/j.azr.2022.06.23

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Remote sensing classification characteristics of typical plant communities in the semi-arid areas of eastern Ningxia

PANG Haiwei1(),YU Dian2,REN Chengbao2,ZHANG Yu1,ZHENG Caizhi1,GUO Jiacheng1,BIAN Zhen1(),SANG Guoqing1   

  1. 1. School of water Conservancy and Environment of Jinan University, Jinan 250024, Shandong, China
    2. Administration Bureau of Habahu National Nature Reserve of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Wuzhong 751100, Ningxia, China
  • Received:2022-04-20 Revised:2022-08-23 Online:2022-11-15 Published:2023-01-17
  • Contact: Zhen BIAN E-mail:1152700401@qq.com;stu_bianz@ujn.edu.cn

Abstract:

The vegetation information extraction technology by remote sensing has been widely used in environmental monitoring and ecological protection. It can be seen that this technology has more important significance and application value in desertification frontier areas, such as arid and semi-arid regions. Taking the Haba Lake National Nature Reserve as the research area, the remote sensing extraction of typical plant communities at the regional scale was studied, verifying the applicability of the extraction of plant communities in this area based on the multi-temporal Landsat8 data. Based on the optimal index factor, the optimal band combination was determined. Simultaneously, combined with the object-oriented classification method, eight groups of classification experiments using single-phase and two-phase images with different band combinations were compared and analyzed to explore the influence of multi-temporal data on classification accuracy. The research results show that: (1) Different segmentation parameter settings influence the classification accuracy. Among these, when the compactness factor and shape factor are 0.7 and 0.1, respectively, the optimal classification effect of the experiment can be achieved. (2) The vegetation planted artificially in a large area of the study area has a better classification effect. Natural mixed plant communities, such as Bletilla striata and Achnatherum splendens, easily cause misclassification and mixed classification. (3) According to the final classification accuracy, the classification of multi-temporal data can significantly improve the classification accuracy. Compared with the overall classification accuracy and Kappa coefficient of single-phase data, the maximum improvement is 8.24% and 0.10, which can effectively improve the extraction accuracy of vegetation information in the study area.

Key words: object oriented classification, mulit-temporal image, plant community, band combination, classification accuracy, semi-arid areas