Title
Spectral signatures for the identification of dry forest using sentinel-2 images over the lower basin of the chira river, piura region
Other title
Relación de firmas espectrales para la identificación de bosque seco en imágenes de satélite sentinel-2, cuenca baja del río chira, región piura
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia.
Abstract
El Niño phenomenon, droughts and the warm climate directly influence the good ecological state of the forests in the Piura Region. The objective is to relate the spectral signatures evaluated in the Sentinel-2 satellite images with the spectral signatures measured with the FieldSpec4 spectroradiometer, for the identification of dry forest in the lower basin of the Chira River, Piura región. The Sentinel-2 images corresponding to the 17MNR, 17MPR, 17MMQ, 17MNQ and 17MPQ tiles are pre-processed, mosaicked, resampled and cut with the SNAP software. Stacking of bands 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 generates a raster whose pixel reflectance values are related to their wavelengths. The classification of dry forest areas is done with the spectral signature measured with the FieldSpec4 spectroradiometer. The validation of the results is carried out by applying the non-parametric ANOVA and Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon tests at four sampling points. The surface area of dry forest in the lower basin of the Chira River is 129 113.06 ha, which represents 3.8% of the total area of dry forest in northern Peru.
Start page
147
End page
156
Volume
2020
Issue
56
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Sensores remotos Ciencias del medio ambiente
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85097192091
Source
Revista de Teledeteccion
ISSN of the container
11330953
Sponsor(s)
Este trabajo ha sido posible gracias al apoyo finan-ciero de la Unidad de Proyectos de Investigación de la Universidad Nacional de Frontera; Sullana, Piura, Perú. Los autores agradecen al Laboratorio de Teledetección y energías Renovables LABTELER de la Universidad Nacional de San Cristóbal de Huamanga; Ayacucho, Perú, por su incondicional apoyo para la toma de firmas espec-trales con el espectro-radiómetro FieldSpec4.
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