15 May 2023 Aboveground biomass stock and change estimation in Amazon rainforest using airborne light detection and ranging, multispectral data, and machine learning algorithms
Juliana Marchesan, Elisiane Alba, Mateus Sabadi Schuh, José Augusto Spiazzi Favarin, Roberta Aparecida Fantinel, Luciane Marchesan, Rudiney Soares Pereira
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Abstract

Developing an efficient method to accurately estimate aboveground biomass in tropical forests is critical to monitoring the carbon stock and implementing policies to reduce emissions caused by deforestation. Thus, the objective of the present study was to estimate aboveground biomass in areas of the Amazonian Forest with selective logging, using the random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), and artificial neural network (ANN) machine learning algorithms, using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data and these combined with OLI/Landsat 8 variables, as well as mapping the biomass for the years 2014 and 2017, allowing one to analyze its dynamics between the years of analysis. The RF and SVM algorithms obtained the lowest error values in all datasets. The association of the variables increased the RF performance. Analyzing the dynamics of biomass, it was observed that the oldest exploration units (2006, 2007, and 2008) have lower biomass stocks. The highest biomass losses in 2017 came from units operated between 2012 and 2013 (the most recent record). Thus, with the method used in this study, it was possible to infer that the machine learning algorithms were efficient in estimating the biomass, emphasizing the RF and the SVM.

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Juliana Marchesan, Elisiane Alba, Mateus Sabadi Schuh, José Augusto Spiazzi Favarin, Roberta Aparecida Fantinel, Luciane Marchesan, and Rudiney Soares Pereira "Aboveground biomass stock and change estimation in Amazon rainforest using airborne light detection and ranging, multispectral data, and machine learning algorithms," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 17(2), 024509 (15 May 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.17.024509
Received: 10 January 2023; Accepted: 24 April 2023; Published: 15 May 2023
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KEYWORDS
LIDAR

Biomass

Biological research

Data modeling

Vegetation

Machine learning

Rain

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