scholarly journals The First Wetland Inventory Map of Newfoundland at a Spatial Resolution of 10 m Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data on the Google Earth Engine Cloud Computing Platform

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masoud Mahdianpari ◽  
Bahram Salehi ◽  
Fariba Mohammadimanesh ◽  
Saeid Homayouni ◽  
Eric Gill
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Wetland Mapping ◽  
Object Based ◽  
Wetland Inventory ◽  
Inventory Map ◽  
Google Earth Engine ◽  
Provincial Scale ◽  
Sentinel 2

Wetlands are one of the most important ecosystems that provide a desirable habitat for a great variety of flora and fauna. Wetland mapping and modeling using Earth Observation (EO) data are essential for natural resource management at both regional and national levels. However, accurate wetland mapping is challenging, especially on a large scale, given their heterogeneous and fragmented landscape, as well as the spectral similarity of differing wetland classes. Currently, precise, consistent, and comprehensive wetland inventories on a national- or provincial-scale are lacking globally, with most studies focused on the generation of local-scale maps from limited remote sensing data. Leveraging the Google Earth Engine (GEE) computational power and the availability of high spatial resolution remote sensing data collected by Copernicus Sentinels, this study introduces the first detailed, provincial-scale wetland inventory map of one of the richest Canadian provinces in terms of wetland extent. In particular, multi-year summer Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Sentinel-1 and optical Sentinel-2 data composites were used to identify the spatial distribution of five wetland and three non-wetland classes on the Island of Newfoundland, covering an approximate area of 106,000 km2. The classification results were evaluated using both pixel-based and object-based random forest (RF) classifications implemented on the GEE platform. The results revealed the superiority of the object-based approach relative to the pixel-based classification for wetland mapping. Although the classification using multi-year optical data was more accurate compared to that of SAR, the inclusion of both types of data significantly improved the classification accuracies of wetland classes. In particular, an overall accuracy of 88.37% and a Kappa coefficient of 0.85 were achieved with the multi-year summer SAR/optical composite using an object-based RF classification, wherein all wetland and non-wetland classes were correctly identified with accuracies beyond 70% and 90%, respectively. The results suggest a paradigm-shift from standard static products and approaches toward generating more dynamic, on-demand, large-scale wetland coverage maps through advanced cloud computing resources that simplify access to and processing of the “Geo Big Data.” In addition, the resulting ever-demanding inventory map of Newfoundland is of great interest to and can be used by many stakeholders, including federal and provincial governments, municipalities, NGOs, and environmental consultants to name a few.

Wetland Mapping of Northern Provinces of Iran Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 in Google Earth Engine

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali Hemati ◽  
Mahdi Hasanlau ◽  
Masaud Mahdianpari ◽  
Fariba Mohammadimanesh
Keyword(s):  
Google Earth ◽  
Wetland Mapping ◽  
Google Earth Engine ◽  
Sentinel 2

National-scale mangrove forest mapping by using Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 MSI imagery on the Google Earth Engine Platform

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luojia Hu ◽  
Wei Yao ◽  
Zhitong Yu ◽  
Lei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Mangrove Forest ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Landsat Imagery ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Accuracy Evaluation ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Forest Mapping ◽  
Google Earth Engine ◽  
Sentinel 2

<p>Mangrove forest is considered as one of the pivotal ecosystems to near-shore environment health, adjacent terrestrial ecosystems and even global climate change migration. However, for past two decades, they are declining rapidly. In order to take effective steps to prevent the extinction of mangroves, high spatial resolution information of large-scale mangrove distribution is urgent. Recent study has indicated that a suitable pixel size for extracting mangroves should be at least equal to 10 m. Hence, Sentinel imagery (Sentinel-1 C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and Sentinel-2 Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) imagery) whose spatial resolution is 10 m may hold great potentials to achieve this goal, but there are limited researches investigating it. Therefore, in this study, we will explore the potential of Sentinel imagery to extract mangrove forests in China on the Google Earth Engine platform. Specifically, our study was mainly conducted around 3 questions: (1) Which Sentinel imagery provides a higher accuracy for mangrove forest mapping, Sentinel-1 SAR data or Sentinel-2 multi-spectral data? (2) which combination of features from Sentinel imagery provides the most accurate mangrove forest map? (3) Compared to 30-m resolution mangrove products derived from Landsat imagery, how does 10-m resolution map improve our knowledge about the distribution of mangrove forest in China?</p><p> </p><p>Our results show that: (1) The highest producer’s accuracies (the reason why using producer’s accuracy as an accuracy evaluation indicator here is that the omission errors in mangrove forest extent map are much larger than commission errors) of mangrove forest maps derived from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery are 91.76% and 90.39%, respectively, which means that the contributions of Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 MSI imagery to mangrove mapping are similar; (2) The highest producer’s accuracy of mangrove forest map at 10-m resolution is 95.4%. The mangrove forest map with the highest accuracy is obtained by combining quantiles of spectral and backscatter bands, spectral index, and texture index derived from time series of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery, indicating that the combination of Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 MSI imagery is more useful in mangrove forest mapping than using them separately; (3) In China, the total area of mangrove forest extent at 10-m resolution is similar to that at 30-m resolution (20003 ha vs. 19220 ha). However, compared to 30-m resolution mangrove products, the 10-m resolution mangrove map identifies 1741 ha (occupying 8.7% of total mangrove forest area in China) mangrove forests in size smaller than 1 ha, which are especially important to low-lying coastal zone. This study demonstrates the feasibility of Sentinel imagery in large-scale mangrove forest mapping and gives guidance to map global mangrove forest at 10-m resolution in the future.  </p><p> </p>

scholarly journals The Second Generation Canadian Wetland Inventory Map at 10 Meters Resolution Using Google Earth Engine

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masoud Mahdianpari ◽  
Brian Brisco ◽  
Jean Elizabeth Granger ◽  
Fariba Mohammadimanesh ◽  
Bahram Salehi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Wetland Inventory ◽  
Inventory Map ◽  
Google Earth Engine

scholarly journals Nominal 30-m Cropland Extent Map of Continental Africa by Integrating Pixel-Based and Object-Based Algorithms Using Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 Data on Google Earth Engine

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Xiong ◽  
Prasad Thenkabail ◽  
James Tilton ◽  
Murali Gumma ◽  
Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Google Earth ◽  
Landsat 8 ◽  
Object Based ◽  
Google Earth Engine ◽  
Sentinel 2

scholarly journals Local Climate Zone Mapping Using Multi-Source Free Available Datasets on Google Earth Engine Platform

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 454
Author(s):  
Lingfei Shi ◽  
Feng Ling
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Climate ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Climate Zone ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Google Earth Engine ◽  
Occurrence Matrix ◽  
Local Climate Zone ◽  
Sentinel 2

As one of the widely concerned urban climate issues, urban heat island (UHI) has been studied using the local climate zone (LCZ) classification scheme in recent years. More and more effort has been focused on improving LCZ mapping accuracy. It has become a prevalent trend to take advantage of multi-source images in LCZ mapping. To this end, this paper tried to utilize multi-source freely available datasets: Sentinel-2 multispectral instrument (MSI), Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR), Luojia1-01 nighttime light (NTL), and Open Street Map (OSM) datasets to produce the 10 m LCZ classification result using Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform. Additionally, the derived datasets of Sentinel-2 MSI data were also exploited in LCZ classification, such as spectral indexes (SI) and gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) datasets. The different dataset combinations were designed to evaluate the particular dataset’s contribution to LCZ classification. It was found that: (1) The synergistic use of Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-1 SAR data can improve the accuracy of LCZ classification; (2) The multi-seasonal information of Sentinel data also has a good contribution to LCZ classification; (3) OSM, GLCM, SI, and NTL datasets have some positive contribution to LCZ classification when individually adding them to the seasonal Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 datasets; (4) It is not an absolute right way to improve LCZ classification accuracy by combining as many datasets as possible. With the help of the GEE, this study provides the potential to generate more accurate LCZ mapping on a large scale, which is significant for urban development.

scholarly journals Towards Global-Scale Seagrass Mapping and Monitoring Using Sentinel-2 on Google Earth Engine: The Case Study of the Aegean and Ionian Seas

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimosthenis Traganos ◽  
Bharat Aggarwal ◽  
Dimitris Poursanidis ◽  
Konstantinos Topouzelis ◽  
Nektarios Chrysoulakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Anthropogenic Impacts ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Independent Field ◽  
Google Earth Engine ◽  
Sentinel 2

Seagrasses are traversing the epoch of intense anthropogenic impacts that significantly decrease their coverage and invaluable ecosystem services, necessitating accurate and adaptable, global-scale mapping and monitoring solutions. Here, we combine the cloud computing power of Google Earth Engine with the freely available Copernicus Sentinel-2 multispectral image archive, image composition, and machine learning approaches to develop a methodological workflow for large-scale, high spatiotemporal mapping and monitoring of seagrass habitats. The present workflow can be easily tuned to space, time and data input; here, we show its potential, mapping 2510.1 km2 of P. oceanica seagrasses in an area of 40,951 km2 between 0 and 40 m of depth in the Aegean and Ionian Seas (Greek territorial waters) after applying support vector machines to a composite of 1045 Sentinel-2 tiles at 10-m resolution. The overall accuracy of P. oceanica seagrass habitats features an overall accuracy of 72% following validation by an independent field data set to reduce bias. We envision that the introduced flexible, time- and cost-efficient cloud-based chain will provide the crucial seasonal to interannual baseline mapping and monitoring of seagrass ecosystems in global scale, resolving gain and loss trends and assisting coastal conservation, management planning, and ultimately climate change mitigation.

scholarly journals Efficient Identification of Corn Cultivation Area with Multitemporal Synthetic Aperture Radar and Optical Images in the Google Earth Engine Cloud Platform

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuyou Tian ◽  
Bingfang Wu ◽  
Hongwei Zeng ◽  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Jiaming Xu
Keyword(s):  
Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Synthetic Aperture ◽  
Cloud Platform ◽  
Optical Images ◽  
Google Earth Engine ◽  
Sentinel 2 ◽  
Aperture Radar

The distribution of corn cultivation areas is crucial for ensuring food security, eradicating hunger, adjusting crop structures, and managing water resources. The emergence of high-resolution images, such as Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2, enables the identification of corn at the field scale, and these images can be applied on a large scale with the support of cloud computing technology. Hebei Province is the major production area of corn in China, and faces serious groundwater overexploitation due to irrigation. Corn was mapped using multitemporal synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical images in the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud platform. A total of 1712 scenes of Sentinel-2 data and 206 scenes of Sentinel-1 data acquired from June to October 2017 were processed to composite image metrics as input to a random forest (RF) classifier. To avoid speckle noise in the classification results, the pixel-based classification result was integrated with the object segmentation boundary completed in eCognition software to generate an object-based corn map according to crop intensity. The results indicated that the approach using multitemporal SAR and optical images in the GEE cloud platform is reliable for corn mapping. The corn map had a high F1-Score of 90.08% and overall accuracy of 89.89% according to the test dataset, which was not involved in model training. The corn area estimated from optical and SAR images was well correlated with the census data, with an R2 = 0.91 and a root mean square error (RMSE) of 470.90 km2. The results of the corn map are expected to provide detailed information for optimizing crop structure and water management, which are critical issues in this region.

scholarly journals Mangrove Ecosystem Mapping Using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Satellite Images and Random Forest Algorithm in Google Earth Engine

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 2565
Author(s):  
Arsalan Ghorbanian ◽  
Soheil Zaghian ◽  
Reza Mohammadi Asiyabi ◽  
Meisam Amani ◽  
Ali Mohammadzadeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Random Forest ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Mangrove Ecosystem ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Aerial Roots ◽  
Google Earth Engine ◽  
Sentinel 2

Mangroves are among the most productive ecosystems in existence, with many ecological benefits. Therefore, generating accurate thematic maps from mangrove ecosystems is crucial for protecting, conserving, and reforestation planning for these valuable natural resources. In this paper, Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellite images were used in synergy to produce a detailed mangrove ecosystem map of the Hara protected area, Qeshm, Iran, at 10 m spatial resolution within the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud computing platform. In this regard, 86 Sentinel-1 and 41 Sentinel-2 data, acquired in 2019, were employed to generate seasonal optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) features. Afterward, seasonal features were inserted into a pixel-based random forest (RF) classifier, resulting in an accurate mangrove ecosystem map with average overall accuracy (OA) and Kappa coefficient (KC) of 93.23% and 0.92, respectively, wherein all classes (except aerial roots) achieved high producer and user accuracies of over 90%. Furthermore, comprehensive quantitative and qualitative assessments were performed to investigate the robustness of the proposed approach, and the accurate and stable results achieved through cross-validation and consistency checks confirmed its robustness and applicability. It was revealed that seasonal features and the integration of multi-source remote sensing data contributed towards obtaining a more reliable mangrove ecosystem map. The proposed approach relies on a straightforward yet effective workflow for mangrove ecosystem mapping, with a high rate of automation that can be easily implemented for frequent and precise mapping in other parts of the world. Overall, the proposed workflow can further improve the conservation and sustainable management of these valuable natural resources.

scholarly journals Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Selection for Object-Based Land Cover Classification based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Time Series Using Google Earth Engine

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Stromann ◽  
Andrea Nascetti ◽  
Osama Yousif ◽  
Yifang Ban
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Dimensionality Reduction ◽  
Land Cover Classification ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Earth Observation ◽  
Object Based ◽  
Feature Importance ◽  
Google Earth Engine ◽  
Study Sites ◽  
Sentinel 2

Mapping Earth’s surface and its rapid changes with remotely sensed data is a crucial task to understand the impact of an increasingly urban world population on the environment. However, the impressive amount of available Earth observation data is only marginally exploited in common classifications. In this study, we use the computational power of Google Earth Engine and Google Cloud Platform to generate an oversized feature set in which we explore feature importance and analyze the influence of dimensionality reduction methods to object-based land cover classification with Support Vector Machines. We propose a methodology to extract the most relevant features and optimize an SVM classifier hyperparameters to achieve higher classification accuracy. The proposed approach is evaluated in two different urban study areas of Stockholm and Beijing. Despite different training set sizes in the two study sites, the averaged feature importance ranking showed similar results for the top-ranking features. In particular, Sentinel-2 NDVI, NDWI, and Sentinel-1 VV temporal means are the highest ranked features and the experiment results strongly indicated that the fusion of these features improved the separability between urban land cover and land use classes. Overall classification accuracies of 94% and 93% were achieved in Stockholm and Beijing study sites, respectively. The test demonstrated the viability of the methodology in a cloud-computing environment to incorporate dimensionality reduction as a key step in the land cover classification process, which we consider essential for the exploitation of the growing Earth observation big data. To encourage further research and development of reliable workflows, we share our datasets and publish the developed Google Earth Engine and Python scripts as free and open-source software.

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