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Vegetation Height and Age Estimation using Shuttle Radar Topography Mission and National Elevation Datasets

SRTM과 NED를 이용한 식생수고 및 수령 추정

  • 김진우 (연세대학교 시화환경시스템공학부) ;
  • 허준 (연세대학교 시화환경시스템공학부) ;
  • 손홍규 (연세대학교 사회환경시스템공학부)
  • Received : 2005.10.07
  • Accepted : 2005.12.15
  • Published : 2006.01.31
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Abstract

SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) technology, which is not influenced by cloud cover because of using electromagnetic wave of long wavelength, has an advantage in mapping the earth. NASA, recognizing these strong points of SAR, launched SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission), and acquired the topographic information of the earth. SRTM and NED (National Elevation Data) of USGS were used for the research and vegetation height map was produced through differentiating the two data. Correlation between SRTM-NED and planting year was analyzed to see the relationship. Strong correlation was detected and it shows the feasibility of estimating timber age and eventually creating timber age map from SRTM-NED. Additional analyses were conducted to check if the linearity is influenced by regional characteristics and forest uniformity. As results, the correlation between SRTM-NED and timber age is influenced by roughness of the terrain. Overall, this paper shows that timber age estimation using SRTM and NED can be sufficiently practical.

SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) 는 긴 파장대의 전자기파를 사용하므로 날씨의 영향을 받지 않는다. 따라서 지구를 관측하는데 있어서 잇점을 갖고 있으므로 NASA는 SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) 미션수행을 통해 지형정보를 획득하였다. 본 논문에서는 SRTM 데이터와 USGS의 NED (National Elevation Datasets) 데이터를 사용하였으며 두 데이터를 차분함으로써 식생수고도(vegetation height map)를 얻었다. 또한 차분값과 shape 파일에 포함된 식수년도의 비교를 통해 상관관계여부를 판단하고자 했다. 본 논문에서는 회귀분석을 통해 차분데이터와 식수년도 사이의 큰 상관관계가 존재함을 확인할 수 있었으며 결국 수령추정과 수령정보의 맵핑이 가능함을 보였다. 추가적으로 지역별 지형특성, 숲의 균일도 등에 의해 선형성이 영향을 받는지 관찰하였다. 결론적으로 본 논문에서는 차분영상으로부터 얻은 식생수령추정 모델이 지역의 기복의 영향을 받지만 여전히 높은 상관관계를 가지므로 충분히 유용할 수 있다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

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