Hyperspectral and multispectral satellite data analysis of nitrogen in grazed and ungrazed tundra in Långfjället, Sweden
Reindeer are a keystone species in the circumpolar north, where they hold great cultural and ecological importance. Continued climate change threatens the long-term sustainability of reindeer husbandry. Reindeer can affect the tundra landscape, influencing the soil nutrient cycling, including the so...
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ftunivgoeteborg:oai:gupea.ub.gu.se:2077/78263 2023-10-29T02:39:46+01:00 Hyperspectral and multispectral satellite data analysis of nitrogen in grazed and ungrazed tundra in Långfjället, Sweden Dahlstedt, Emma University of Gothenburg/Department of Earth Sciences Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper 2023-08-18 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/2077/78263 eng eng B1263 https://hdl.handle.net/2077/78263 Hyperspectral imaging Imaging spectroscopy Nitrogen Reindeer Herbivory Tundra Grazing Text H2 Student essay 2023 ftunivgoeteborg 2023-10-04T21:10:32Z Reindeer are a keystone species in the circumpolar north, where they hold great cultural and ecological importance. Continued climate change threatens the long-term sustainability of reindeer husbandry. Reindeer can affect the tundra landscape, influencing the soil nutrient cycling, including the soil nitrogen availability. Hyperspectral remote sensing of biochemical traits is a relatively new but promising field of study. This thesis aims to investigate if hyperspectral and multispectral satellite data could be used to differentiate between grazed and ungrazed tundra landscape, as well as to determine which hyperspectral wavelength bands are best suited to estimate nitrogen content over a tundra reindeer grazing site. A hyperspectral satellite, PRIMSA, and a multispectral satellite, Sentinel-2, were used over a heath shrub study site in Sweden. A visual comparison of the spectral curves from PRISMA and Sentinel-2 were used to differentiate between grazed and ungrazed tundra landscape. A variety of remote sensing analysis methods, i.e., PCA, RF regression, RF classification, MLR, and an unsupervised classification, as well as a standard C/N ratio analysis of 24 plant samples were used to get a final map over estimated nitrogen content. The result from this study supports using chlorophyll as a proxy for nitrogen content. From the MLR, all PRISMA wavelength bands below 680 nm (band 35) had R2 values >0.7. In particular, this study identified that band 1, at 405 nm, was best suited for determining nitrogen content over a tundra reindeer grazing site. Neither PRIMSA nor Sentinel-2 were definitively found to be better at differentiating between grazed and ungrazed rangeland. Although this project was limited by the small sample size of the reference data, it shows potential possibilities of what could be done with biochemical trait estimation via remote sensing. Contributing to the wider scientific field by giving a suggested method for estimating nitrogen content and by giving a suggestion for which ... Text reindeer husbandry Tundra University of Gothenburg: GUPEA (Gothenburg University Publications Electronic Archive) |
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Reindeer are a keystone species in the circumpolar north, where they hold great cultural and ecological importance. Continued climate change threatens the long-term sustainability of reindeer husbandry. Reindeer can affect the tundra landscape, influencing the soil nutrient cycling, including the soil nitrogen availability. Hyperspectral remote sensing of biochemical traits is a relatively new but promising field of study. This thesis aims to investigate if hyperspectral and multispectral satellite data could be used to differentiate between grazed and ungrazed tundra landscape, as well as to determine which hyperspectral wavelength bands are best suited to estimate nitrogen content over a tundra reindeer grazing site. A hyperspectral satellite, PRIMSA, and a multispectral satellite, Sentinel-2, were used over a heath shrub study site in Sweden. A visual comparison of the spectral curves from PRISMA and Sentinel-2 were used to differentiate between grazed and ungrazed tundra landscape. A variety of remote sensing analysis methods, i.e., PCA, RF regression, RF classification, MLR, and an unsupervised classification, as well as a standard C/N ratio analysis of 24 plant samples were used to get a final map over estimated nitrogen content. The result from this study supports using chlorophyll as a proxy for nitrogen content. From the MLR, all PRISMA wavelength bands below 680 nm (band 35) had R2 values >0.7. In particular, this study identified that band 1, at 405 nm, was best suited for determining nitrogen content over a tundra reindeer grazing site. Neither PRIMSA nor Sentinel-2 were definitively found to be better at differentiating between grazed and ungrazed rangeland. Although this project was limited by the small sample size of the reference data, it shows potential possibilities of what could be done with biochemical trait estimation via remote sensing. Contributing to the wider scientific field by giving a suggested method for estimating nitrogen content and by giving a suggestion for which ... |
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Hyperspectral and multispectral satellite data analysis of nitrogen in grazed and ungrazed tundra in Långfjället, Sweden |
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Hyperspectral and multispectral satellite data analysis of nitrogen in grazed and ungrazed tundra in Långfjället, Sweden |
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Hyperspectral and multispectral satellite data analysis of nitrogen in grazed and ungrazed tundra in Långfjället, Sweden |
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