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A comparison of three ways to assemble wall-to-wall maps from distribution models of vegetation types
| العنوان: | A comparison of three ways to assemble wall-to-wall maps from distribution models of vegetation types |
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| المؤلفون: | Peter Horvath, Rune Halvorsen, Trond Simensen, Anders Bryn |
| المصدر: | GIScience & Remote Sensing, Vol 58, Iss 8, Pp 1458-1476 (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Mathematical geography. Cartography LCC:Environmental sciences |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | area frame survey, assembly strategies, distribution modeling, spatial probabilities, vegetation mapping, vegetation types, Mathematical geography. Cartography, GA1-1776, Environmental sciences, GE1-350 |
| الوصف: | Distribution modeling methods are used to provide occurrence probability surfaces for modeled targets. While most often used for modeling species, distribution modeling methods can also be applied to vegetation types. However, surfaces provided by distribution modeling need to be transformed into classified wall-to-wall maps of vegetation types to be useful for practical purposes, such as nature management and environmental planning. The paper compares the performance of three methods for assembling predictions for multiple vegetation types, modeled individually, into a wall-to-wall map. The authors used grid-cell based probability surfaces from distribution models of 31 vegetation types to test the three assembly methods. The first, a probability-based method, selected for each grid cell the vegetation type with the highest predicted probability of occurrence in that cell. The second, a performance-based method, assigned the vegetation types, ordered from high to low model performance, to a fraction of the grid cells given by the vegetation type’s prevalence in the study area. The third, a prevalence-based method, differed from the performance-based method by assigning vegetation types in the order from low to high prevalence. Thus the assembly methods worked in two principally different ways: the probability-based method assigned vegetation types to grid cells in a cell-by-cell manner, and both the performance-based method and prevalence-based method assigned them in a type-by-type manner. All methods were evaluated by use of reference data collected in the field, more or less independently of the data used to parameterize the vegetation-type models. Quantity, allocation, and total disagreement, as well as proportional dissimilarity metrics, were used for evaluation of assembly methods. Overlay analysis showed 38.1% agreement between all three assembly methods. The probability-based method had the lowest total disagreement with, and proportional dissimilarity from, the reference datasets, but the differences between the three methods were small. The three assembly methods differed strongly with respect to the distribution of the total disagreement on its quantity and allocation components: the cell-by-cell assignment method strongly favored allocation disagreement and the type-by-type methods strongly favored quantity disagreement. The probability-based method best reproduced the general pattern of variation across the study area, but at the cost of many rare vegetation types, which were left out of the assembled map. By contrast, the prevalence-based and performance-based methods represented vegetation types in accordance with nationwide area statistics. The results show that maps of vegetation types with wall-to-wall coverage can be assembled from individual distribution models with a quality acceptable for indicative purposes, but all the three tested methods currently also have shortcomings. The results also indicate specific points in the methodology for map assembly that may be improved. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1548-1603 1943-7226 15481603 99941511 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/1548-1603; https://doaj.org/toc/1943-7226 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15481603.2021.1996313 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/99941511539c488384199fb89f3e08d8 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.99941511539c488384199fb89f3e08d8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
PDF full text from Publisher | تدمد: | 15481603 19437226 99941511 |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/15481603.2021.1996313 |