文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Development of a System of Compatible Individual Tree Diameter and Aboveground Biomass Prediction Models Using Error-In-Variable Regression and Airborne LiDAR Data

作者：Fu, Liyong[1] Liu, Qingwang[1] Sun, Hua[2,3] Wang, Qiuyan[1] Li, Zengyuan[1] Chen, Erxue[1] Pang, Yong[1] Song, Xinyu[4] Wang, Guangxing[2,3,5]

第一作者：符利勇

通信作者：Wang, GX[1];Wang, GX[2];Wang, GX[3]

机构：[1]Chinese Acad Forestry, Res Inst Forest Resource Informat Tech, Beijing 100091, Peoples R China;[2]Cent South Univ Forestry & Technol, Res Ctr Forestry Remote Sensing & Informat Engn, Changsha 410004, Hunan, Peoples R China;[3]Key Lab Forestry Remote Sensing Based Big Data &, Changsha 410004, Hunan, Peoples R China;[4]Xinyang Normal Univ, Coll Comp & Informat Tech, Xinyang 464000, Peoples R China;[5]Southern Illinois Univ, Dept Geog & Environm Resources, Carbondale, IL 62901 USA

年份：2018

卷号：10

期号：2

外文期刊名：REMOTE SENSING

收录：;EI(收录号：20180904849710);Scopus(收录号：2-s2.0-85042537048);WOS:【SCI-EXPANDED(收录号:WOS:000427542100169)】；

基金：This work was supported by the Central Public interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund (Grant No. CAFYBB2016SZ003) and the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (grant Nos. 31470641, 31300534, and 31570628). We also appreciate the valuable comments and constructive suggestions from four anonymous referees and the Academic Editor that helped improve the manuscript.

语种：英文

外文关键词：airborne LiDAR; diameter at breast height; aboveground biomass; error-in-variable models; leave-one-out cross-validation

摘要：Estimating individual tree diameters at breast height (DBH) from delineated crowns and tree heights on the basis of airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data provides a good opportunity for large-scale forest inventory. Generally, ground-based measurements are more accurate, but LiDAR data and derived DBH values can be obtained over larger areas for a relatively smaller cost if a right procedure is developed. A nonlinear least squares (NLS) regression is not an appropriate approach to predict the aboveground biomass (AGB) of individual trees from the estimated DBH because both the response variable and the regressor are subject to measurement errors. In this study, a system of compatible individual tree DBH and AGB error-in-variable models was developed using error-in-variable regression techniques based on both airborne LiDAR and field-measured datasets of individual Picea crassifolia Kom. trees, collected in northwestern China. Two parameter estimation algorithms, i.e., the two-stage error-in-variable model (TSEM) and the nonlinear seemingly unrelated regression (NSUR), were proposed for estimating the parameters in the developed system of compatible individual tree DBH and AGB error-in-variable models. Moreover, two model structures were applied to estimate AGB for comparison purposes: NLS with AGB estimation depending on DBH (NLS&DD) and NLS with AGB estimation not depending on DBH (NLS&NDD). The results showed that both TSEM and NSUR led to almost the same parameter estimates for the developed system. Moreover, the developed system effectively accounted for the inherent correlation between DBH and AGB as well as for the effects of measurement errors in the DBH on the predictions of AGB, whereas NLS&DD and NLS&NDD did not. A leave-one-out cross-validation indicated that the prediction accuracy of the developed system of compatible individual tree DBH and AGB error-in-variable models with NSUR was the highest among those estimated by the four methods evaluated, but, statistically, the accuracy improvement was not significantly different from zero. The main reason might be that, except for the measurement errors, other source errors were ignored in the modeling. This study implies that, overall, the proposed method provides the potential to expand the estimations of both DBH and AGB from individual trees to stands by combining the error-in-variable modeling and LiDAR data and improve their estimation accuracies, but its application needs to be further validated by conducting a systematical uncertainty analysis of various source errors in a future study.