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Validating Landsat-based landscape metrics with fine-grained land cover data

Validating Landsat-based landscape metrics with fine-grained land cover data

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Date of publication
December 2016
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ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:US201600189968
Pages
668-677

Moderate-grained data may not always represent landscape structure in adequate detail which could cause misleading results. Certain metrics have been shown to be predictable with changes in scale; however, no studies have verified such predictions using independent fine-grained data.Our objective was to use independently derived land cover datasets to assess relationships between metrics based on fine- and moderate-grained data for a range of analysis extents. We focus on metrics that previous literature has shown to have predictable relationships across scales.The study area was located in eastern Connecticut. We compared a 1m land cover dataset to a 30m resampled dataset, derived from the 1m data, as well as two Landsat-based datasets. We examined 11 metrics which included cover areas and patch metrics. Metrics were analyzed using analysis extents ranging from 100 to 1400m in radius.The resampled data had very strong linear relationships to the 1m data, from which it was derived, for all metrics regardless of the analysis extent size. Landsat-based data had strong correlations for most cover area metrics but had little or no correlation for patch metrics. Increasing analysis areas improved correlations.Relationships between coarse- and fine-grained data tend to be much weaker when comparing independent land cover datasets. Thus, trends across scales that are found by resampling land cover are likely to be unsuitable for predicting the effects of finer-scale elements in the landscape. Nevertheless, coarser data shows promise in predicting fine-grained for cover area metrics provided the analysis area used is sufficiently large.

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Parent, Jason R.
John C. Volin

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