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Assessing the shape accuracy of coarse resolution burned area identifications / Michael L. Humber in IEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing, vol 58 n° 3 (March 2020)  

Public [article]  inIEEE Transactions on geoscience and remote sensing > vol 58 n° 3 (March 2020) . - pp 1516 - 1526 Titre : Assessing the shape accuracy of coarse resolution burned area identifications Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Michael L. Humber, Auteur ; Luigi Boschetti, Auteur ; Louis Giglio, Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : pp 1516 - 1526 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Applications de télédétection [Termes IGN] aménagement paysager [Termes IGN] appariement de formes [Termes IGN] chevauchement [Termes IGN] classification pixellaire [Termes IGN] écologie [Termes IGN] estimation de précision [Termes IGN] Etats-Unis [Termes IGN] extraction de traits caractéristiques [Termes IGN] image Aqua-MODIS [Termes IGN] image Terra-MODIS [Termes IGN] incendie de forêt [Termes IGN] précision cartographique [Termes IGN] surveillance forestière [Termes IGN] zone sinistrée Résumé : (Auteur) Accuracy assessment of burned area maps has been traditionally performed using pixel-based metrics, with the objective of assessing the accuracy and precision of burned area estimates at local and regional scales. While these assessments are helpful for obtaining consistent estimates of the burned area across many fires and over large areas, pixel-based approaches do not necessarily characterize how well individual fires are mapped. At the individual fire scale, other factors like the shape of the fire have significance regarding ecology, fire succession, and landscape management and determining other fire properties such as the spread rate. We propose a method for evaluating wildfire classification maps, which retains the spatially explicit properties of the burn scar. Our method quantifies the edge error (EE) of burned area classifications and reference maps by calculating the average geometric normal of the evaluated burned area boundary along the burn edge and the two nearest neighbor samples from the reference burn boundary. The metric is a physically meaningful quantification of the EE, which represents the average distance between the boundaries of the reference and evaluated burn scars. The methods are demonstrated by comparing MODIS Burned Area (MCD64A1) maps to Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) maps for 173 total wildfires in the United States. The results indicate that when accounting for the minimum achievable EE (MAEE) due to differing spatial resolutions, the mean EE is less than two MODIS pixels and the magnitude of the errors does not appear to be related to fire size. Numéro de notice : A2020-085 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET/IMAGERIE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1109/TGRS.2019.2943901 Date de publication en ligne : 13/11/2019 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2019.2943901 Format de la ressource électronique : URL Article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=94659 [article]