Large-scale remote sensing-based inventories of forest cover are usually carried out by combining unsupervised classifications of satellite pixels into forest/non forest classes (map data) with subsequent time-consuming visual on-screen imagery classification of a probabilistic sample of pixels taken as the ground truth (reference data). In this paper the estimation of forest change from a sample of reference data is approached by: (i) exploiting map data to construct strata in which changes are occurred, and then adopting the stratified sampling joined with the HT estimator with most sampling effort devoted to strata where changes are occurred irrespective of their size, as suggested in most remote sensing literature regarding land change assessments; (ii) adopting a spatial scheme ensuring spatially balanced samples, as suggested in most recent statistical literature regarding spatial surveys, and exploiting the map data in the difference estimator. The results of a comparison performed on an artificial population of reference data generated from a real population of map data recorded in Sardinia (Italy) discourage the use of unbalanced stratified samples that achieve the worst precision. The best results are obtained by means of spatially balanced samples or stratification with nearly proportional allocation to strata.

Pagliarella, M.C., Corona, P., Fattorini, L. (2018). Spatially-balanced sampling versus unbalanced stratified sampling for assessing forest change: evidences in favour of spatial balance. ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL STATISTICS, 25(1 (Special issue)), 111-123 [10.1007/s10651-017-0378-y].

Spatially-balanced sampling versus unbalanced stratified sampling for assessing forest change: evidences in favour of spatial balance

Pagliarella, Maria Chiara;Fattorini, Lorenzo
2018-01-01

Abstract

Large-scale remote sensing-based inventories of forest cover are usually carried out by combining unsupervised classifications of satellite pixels into forest/non forest classes (map data) with subsequent time-consuming visual on-screen imagery classification of a probabilistic sample of pixels taken as the ground truth (reference data). In this paper the estimation of forest change from a sample of reference data is approached by: (i) exploiting map data to construct strata in which changes are occurred, and then adopting the stratified sampling joined with the HT estimator with most sampling effort devoted to strata where changes are occurred irrespective of their size, as suggested in most remote sensing literature regarding land change assessments; (ii) adopting a spatial scheme ensuring spatially balanced samples, as suggested in most recent statistical literature regarding spatial surveys, and exploiting the map data in the difference estimator. The results of a comparison performed on an artificial population of reference data generated from a real population of map data recorded in Sardinia (Italy) discourage the use of unbalanced stratified samples that achieve the worst precision. The best results are obtained by means of spatially balanced samples or stratification with nearly proportional allocation to strata.
2018
Pagliarella, M.C., Corona, P., Fattorini, L. (2018). Spatially-balanced sampling versus unbalanced stratified sampling for assessing forest change: evidences in favour of spatial balance. ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL STATISTICS, 25(1 (Special issue)), 111-123 [10.1007/s10651-017-0378-y].
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