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1 Photo Credit: Peter Morley COSMO-SkyMed data for detection of forest boundaries on steep terrain Peter Morley 1, Sophie Davison 3, Alistair Jump 1, Daniel Donoghue 2

2 Why mountain forests? 23% earths forested surface Large areas of primary forest Ecosystem services High biodiversity value Carbon storage Water regulation Soil protection Slope stabilisation Commercial benefit Forestry Tourism Photo Credit: Peter Morley

3 Why mountain forests? 23% earths forested surface Large areas of primary forest Ecosystem services High biodiversity value Carbon storage Water regulation Soil protection Slope stabilisation Commercial benefit Forestry Tourism Photo Credit: Peter Morley Dynamic areas- Susceptible to change

4 Aim Identify the value / limitations of COSMO-SkyMed data for forest / non-forest characterisation in steep terrain

5 Kielder water and forest park GetMapping [2018] Davison, S., Donoghue D.N.M. (2018) Assessing the losses in accuracy and precision during vegetation hazard assessment of power lines in the field: A comparison against LiDAR identified vegetation hazards along a UK distribution line. Manuscript in preparation

6 COSMO-SkyMed Spotlight & StripMap data - ASI [2017] processed under license from ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. All rights reserved. Distributed by e-geos Kielder: Datasets X Band COSMO- SkyMed LiDAR COSMO-SkyMed StripMap - ASI [2017] COSMO-SkyMed Spotlight - ASI [2017] Spotlight January pulses/m2 May 2016 around power line AOI StripMap January 2017 COSMO-SkyMed Spotlight - ASI [2017] Spotlight May 2017 COSMO-SkyMed StripMap - ASI [2017] StripMap May 2017

7 SpotLight StripMap Kielder: Initial Observations No high reflectance off power line as seen in some SAR imagery Minimal impact from terrain COSMO-SkyMed StripMap - ASI [2017] processed under license from ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. All rights reserved. Distributed by e-geos Summer Winter COSMO-SkyMed Spotlight - ASI [2017] processed under license from ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. All rights reserved. Distributed by e-geos

8 COSMO-SkyMed Spotlight - ASI [2017] processed under license from ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. All rights reserved. Distributed by e-geos Kielder: Initial Observations No high reflectance off power line as seen in some SAR imagery Minimal impact from terrain Texture and brightness differs over forested/non forested areas 2018 Get Mapping imagery May 2017 COSMO-SkyMed COSMO-SkyMed StripMap - ASI [2017] processed under license from ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. All rights reserved. Distributed by e-geos GetMapping [2018] GetMapping [2018]

9 Kielder: Change Capture Calibration Coregistration Speckle Reduction (multitemporal) Terrain Correction Raster Maths

10 Kielder: Change Capture GetMapping [2018]

11 Kielder: Initial Observations GetMapping [2018]

12 Kielder: Change Capture GetMapping [2018]

13 Taiwan: Background Photo Credit: Peter Morley Photo Credit: Peter Morley Photo Credit: Peter Morley

14 Taiwan: Dataset COSMO-SkyMed StripMap data Green-Red Vegetation Index SPOT 7 Sentinel-2 39 forest & 39 grassland plots Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12 DEC 2017 DOI: / X

15 Taiwan: Initial Observations Sentinel 2 - European Space Agency [2017] COSMO-SkyMed StripMap - ASI [2017] processed under license from ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. All rights reserved. Distributed by e-geos

16 Taiwan: Forest Non-Forest Transitions COSMO-SkyMed R 2 MF = 0.204

17 Taiwan: Forest Non-Forest Transitions Multispectral SPOT R 2 MF = Sentinel 2 R 2 MF = 0.636

18 Taiwan: Forest Non-Forest Transitions Partial effect of backscatter SPOT R 2 MF = Sentinel 2 R 2 MF = 0.835

19 Work in progress Scale dependent benefits: Large scale monitoring Improvement of training models & identification of management zones Detailed management Tree fall events likely only captured in high resolution SAR datasets Validate changes identified in the COSMO-SkyMed imagery against LiDAR and field observations to assess the accuracy Benefit from further repeat SAR images to separate tree fall from surrounding noise & identify suitable workarounds for dealing with terrain effects Photo Credit: Peter Morley

20 Photo Credit: Peter Morley

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