Spectral Response Assessment of Moss-Dominated Biological Soil Crust Coverage Under Dry and Wet Conditions
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Datasets
2.2.1. Field Spectra Measurement and Classification of Plots
2.2.2. Pairwise Dry and Wet Biological Soil Crust (BSC) Field Plots
2.2.3. Estimation of BSC Coverage
2.3. Treatment of Spectral Datasets
2.3.1. Continuum Removal (CR)
2.3.2. Hyperspectral Resampling
2.3.3. Index Calculations
2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Influence of Dry and Wet Conditions on BSC Coverage Estimation
3.2. Response of BSC Spectrum to Dry and Wet Conditions
3.3. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Crust Index (CI), Biological Soil Crust Index (BSCI), and Band Depth of Absorption Feature after Continuum Removal in the Red Band (BD_red) of BSCs with Different Coverage Ranges in Dry and Wet Conditions
4. Discussion
4.1. Influence of Dry and Wet Conditions on BSC Coverage Estimation
4.2. Response of BSC Spectra to Dry and Wet Conditions
4.3. NDVI, CI, BSCI, and BD_red of BSCs with Different Coverage Ranges in Dry and Wet Conditions
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Cyanobacteria | Lichen | Moss |
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Anabaena azotica Ley (++) Chroococcus minutus (Kuetz.) Näg. (+++) Diatoma vulgare Bory (++) Lyngbya digueti Gom. (++) Microcoleus vaginatus (Vauch.) Gom. (++) Penium cruciferum (DeBary) Wittr. (++) Scytonema incrasstum Jao (++) Sc. stuposum (Kuetz.) Born. (++) Sc. javanicum (Kuetz.) Born. (++) Synechocystis crassa Woronichin (++) | Collema coccophorum Tuck. (+++) C. tenax (Sw.) Ach. Em. Degel. (+++) Diploschistes muscorum (Scop.) R. Sant (++) Psora decipiens (Hedw.) Hoffm. (+++) | Aloina brevirostris (Hook. and Grev.) Kindb. (++) Bryum argenteum Hedw. (+++) Bryum caespiticium L. ex Hedw. (++) Ceratodon purpureus var. purpureus (Hedw.) Brid. (++) Crossidium crassinerve (De Not.) Jur. (++) Cr. squamigerum (Viv.) Jur. (++) Dicranella varia (Hedw.) Schimp. (++) Didymodon constrictus (Mitt.) Saito (++) Did. icmadophilus (Schimp. ex C. Müll.) Saito (++) Did. nigrescens (Mitt.) Saito (+++) Did. perobtusus Broth. (++) Funaria hygrometrica Hedw. (++) Hilpertia velenovskyi (Schiffn.) Zand. (++) Microbryum rectum (With.) Zand. (++) Pterygoneurum ovatum (Hedw.) Dix. (++) Tortula atrovirens (Sm.) Lindb. (+++) T. cernua (Hueb.) Lindb. (++) T. desertorum Broth. (++) |
Landsat-8 OLI | Sentinel-2 MSI | ||||
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Band | Range [nm] | Resolution [m] | Band | Range [nm] | Resolution [m] |
Band1 (Coastal Aerosol) | 430–450 | 30 | Band2 (Blue) | 457–523 | 20 |
Band2 (Blue) | 450–510 | 30 | Band3 (Green) | 543–578 | 20 |
Band3 (Green) | 530–590 | 30 | Band4 (Red) | 653–683 | 20 |
Band4 (Red) | 640–670 | 30 | Band5 (Red-edge) | 698–713 | 20 |
Band5 (Near-infrared, NIR) | 850–880 | 30 | Band6 (Red-edge) | 732–748 | 20 |
Band7 (Red-edge) | 773–793 | 20 | |||
Band8A (NIR) | 855–875 | 20 |
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Chen, X.; Wang, T.; Liu, S.; Peng, F.; Kang, W.; Guo, Z.; Feng, K.; Liu, J.; Tsunekawa, A. Spectral Response Assessment of Moss-Dominated Biological Soil Crust Coverage Under Dry and Wet Conditions. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 1158. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071158
Chen X, Wang T, Liu S, Peng F, Kang W, Guo Z, Feng K, Liu J, Tsunekawa A. Spectral Response Assessment of Moss-Dominated Biological Soil Crust Coverage Under Dry and Wet Conditions. Remote Sensing. 2020; 12(7):1158. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071158
Chicago/Turabian StyleChen, Xiang, Tao Wang, Shulin Liu, Fei Peng, Wenping Kang, Zichen Guo, Kun Feng, Jia Liu, and Atsushi Tsunekawa. 2020. "Spectral Response Assessment of Moss-Dominated Biological Soil Crust Coverage Under Dry and Wet Conditions" Remote Sensing 12, no. 7: 1158. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071158
APA StyleChen, X., Wang, T., Liu, S., Peng, F., Kang, W., Guo, Z., Feng, K., Liu, J., & Tsunekawa, A. (2020). Spectral Response Assessment of Moss-Dominated Biological Soil Crust Coverage Under Dry and Wet Conditions. Remote Sensing, 12(7), 1158. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12071158