Spatial Analyses of Logging Impacts in Amazonia Using Remotely Sensed Data
Spatial Analyses of Logging Impacts in Amazonia Using Remotely Sensed Data
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使用遥感数据对亚马逊地区的伐木影响进行空间分析
DOI:
10.14358/pers.69.3.275
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发表时间:
2003
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
Jane M. Read
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作者:
Jane M. Read
(see, e.g., Sist (2000) for details on RIL operations), which Performances of selected spatial methods are investigated for include a range of impacts from road openings to treefall gap characterizing canopy disturbance in a reduced-impact log- openings of various sizes, present a good opportunity to examging operation in central Amazonia using Landsat-7 ETM and ine the performances of spatial methods in detecting canopy Ikonos visible, near-infrared, and normalized difference vege- disturbances at the low end of logging impacts. tation index data. Texture, fractal dimension (D), and Moran’s This paper describes the potential of spatial methods for I index of spatial autocorrelation were calculated for (1) 10- characterizing managed tropical forests using satellite data. ha plots representing logged (LF), logged excluding major roads The objectives of this study were to (1) investigate the sensitivand patios (L), and old-growth (OG) forest; and (2) 335-ha plots ity of Ikonos and Landsat 7 ETM data to selective logging representing LF and OG. impacts in a central Amazonian forest, (2) investigate the perIkonos data were sensitive to roads, patios, and some formance of selected spatial methods for characterizing logging gaps, whereas ETM data were only sensitive to major reduced-impact logging activities along a simple disturbance logging features. The spatial methods were effective at charac- gradient, and (3) examine the effects of measurement and geoterizing the different logging feature treatments at both plot graphic scales on the outcomes of these methods. This was sizes; DTPSA and Moran’s I were most sensitive to fine-scale achieved through comparing the behavior of selected spatial surface details. The spatial methods show potential for moni- methods at different measurement and geographic scales using toring and management of logging activities over landscape Ikonos and ETM data over two plot sizes. The methods evaluscales. The importance of scale, given the ever-increasing ated were texture, spatial autocorrelation, and fractal dimenchoice of remotely sensed data, is emphasized. sion. The research was carried out in a moist tropical forest reduced-impact logging operation near Manaus, Brazil, where