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Evaluation of MODIS gross primary productivity and land cover products for the humid tropics using oil palm trees in Peninsular Malaysia and Google Earth imagery

Evaluation of MODIS gross primary productivity and land cover products for the humid tropics using oil palm trees in Peninsular Malaysia and Google Earth imagery

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Date of publication
декабря 2013
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AGRIS:US201400169086
Pages
7400-7423

Conducting quantitative studies on the carbon balance or productivity of oil palm is important in understanding the role of this ecosystem in global climate change. In this study, we evaluated the accuracy of MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) annual gross primary productivity (GPP) (the product termed MOD-17) and its upstream products, especially the MODIS land cover product (the product termed MOD-12). We used high-resolution Google Earth images to classify the land cover classes and their percentage cover within each 1 km spatial resolution MODIS pixel. We used field-based annual GPP for 2006 to estimate GPP for each pixel based on percentage cover. Both land cover and GPP were then compared to MODIS land cover and GPP products. The results show that for pure pixels that are 100% covered by mature oil palm trees, the RMSE (root mean square error) between MODIS and field-based annual GPP is 18%, and that this is increased to 27% for pixels containing mostly oil palm. Overall, for an area of about 42 km² the RMSE is 26%. We conclude that land cover classification (at 1 km resolution) is one of the main factors for the discrepancy between MODIS and field-based GPP. We also conclude that the accuracy of the MODIS GPP product could be improved significantly by using higher-resolution land cover maps.

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Cracknell, Arthur Philip
Kanniah, Kasturi Devi
Tan, Kian Pang
Wang, Lei

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