Réserve Faunique des Laurentides (Laurentides Wildlife Reserve

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Réserve Faunique des Laurentides
(Laurentides Wildlife Reserve):
An Active Sensors Calibration Site
for Forest Mapping and Monitoring
Marc Simard (JPL)
Lola Fatoyinbo (GSFC)
Naiara Pinto and Ralph Dubayah (UMD)
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Landscape
• 1000m elevation range
• Covers 7860 km2
• Gradient from temperate and
boreal forests
• Variety of management practices
– National Parks
In 1895 the Laurentian Wildlife Reserve was
created to provide fishing, hunting, and recreation
opportunities for the people. It covers 7860km2.
In 1981 Jacques-Cartier Park was created out of
the wildlife reserve as a 671 km² conservation
park. The Jacques-Cartier River drains an area of
2515 square kilometres, starting in and flowing for
nearly 160 kilometers
• Jacques Cartier
• Grands-Jardins
– Montmorency experimental forests
(Université Laval)
– Lumber management
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More Facts
• Classified as boreal zone
– Abies balsamea (Balsam Fur), Picea mariana
(Black Spruce), Betula papyrifera (Paper Birch)
– 1000-1600mm/year precipitation (35% is snow)
– Mean annual temperature (0-2 oC)
– Growth season between 130-140 days
• Public land -> Public access to all sites
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UAVSAR campaigns 2009/2010
• UAVSAR Campaign Objectives
– Assess the potential of L-band polarimetric radar
to measure vegetation 3D structure/biomass
– Assess the potential of L-band polarimetric repeat
pass inSAR to measure vegetation 3D
structure/biomass
• Quantify temporal decorrelation
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UAVSAR Campaign 2009-2010
PI: Simard,CoI’s: Dubayah and Hensley
Funded by the NASA Terrestrial Ecology Program
•Test Sites cover a wide range of forest types
–New Hampshire (Temperate)
–Maine (Temperate)
–Québec (Temperate and boreal)
–Sierra (Temperate with strong elevational gradient)
–La Selva (Tropical)
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Airborne and Field Data Collection
UAVSAR
LVIS
L-band polarimetric radar enabled
for repeat pass interferometry
Laser Vegetation Imaging System
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Spatial resolution
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UAVSAR: 6m
LVIS 25m
Swaths
• UAVSAR 20km
• LVIS 2km (based on
max of 5o look for
vegetation)
In each site, we collected
field data (height,
DBH,species)
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Data collection strategy
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UAVSAR images covered transects of ~185km with ~20km
swath
Covered boreal and temperate forests
Large diversity of management practices:
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sites are characterized by experimental forests, national parks
and managed forests (e.g. lumber)
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UAVSAR flew 3 days over a period of about 10 days.
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Data collection:
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Aug
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data
flown on 5th, 7th and 14th of August 2009.
Providing temporal baselines of 45’, 2, 7 and 9 days
Aug
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X
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Aug
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Aug
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X
45’
Aug
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Aug
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Aug
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45’
45’
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9
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The Eco3D flight campaign consisted of 3 instruments developed at GSFC (DBSAR,
SIMPL and CAR) flying simultaneously on the P-3 aircraft out of the Wallops flight
facility:
• DBSAR is a digital beamforming L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar
• SIMPL is a multibeam, dual-wavelength, polarimetric photon counting lidar
• CAR is a multiangular and multispectral passive sensor
The campaign took place in August-September, 2011
Eco3D
DBSAR
SIMPL
Spaceborne coverage
ALOS/PALSAR (JAXA)
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Objective: Compare Algorithms and Results
from Various Investigators and on Several
Fronts
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Radiometric Calibration
Repeat-pass interferometry (zero baseline)
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σHV
45’
2 days
7 days
9 days
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3D mapping and monitoring
Simard, Pinto, Fisher, Baccini, JGR, 2011
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Increasing Spatial Resolution fo
model with ALOS/PALSAR
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SUPER SITE
Objective: Multisensor calibration with field data
Public access to raw data and analysis
SUPER SITE QUALITIES
•Data availability
•Analysis Transparency
•Terrain diversity
•Biological diversity
•Diversity of management practices
PUBLIC ACCESSIBILITY
•Data access
•Free
•Downloadable instantaneously
•Acknowledgement rules
•Access to Analysis Results from other
researchers and related publications
DATA
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Remote Sensing data
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Active
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• Lidar
• radar
Passive
• Radiometer
• Optical
• Infrared
Field data
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Weather
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• Precipitation
• Wind
Biophysical data
• Vegetation stucture
• Vegetation type
• Biomass
Geophysical data
• Elevation
• Terrain slope
• Soil moisture
• Soil type
Management practices
• Land use history
• Date of last cut
• Insect infestation
• Fire history
• Vegetation Deseases
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Online access to remote sensing data
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Online access to field data
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Current Datasets From Active Sensors over
the Réserve Faunique des Laurentides
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UAVSAR (08/2009)
LVIS (08/2009)
DBSAR (06/2011)
SIMPL (06/2011)
SRTM (February 2000)
ICESat/GLAS (2003-2007)
TanDEM-X (June-August 2011)
High resolution lidar (2010, MRNQ)
Field Data (08/2009 and 09/2010)
ALOS/PALSAR (2007-2010)
RADARSAT (?)
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While most of these datasets can be made available publically,
some are currently under science agreements.