Predicting species-specific basal areas in urban forests using airborne laser scanning and existing stand register data |
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| Authors: | Inka Pippuri Matti Maltamo Petteri Packalen Juha Mäkitalo |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science and Forestry, University of Eastern Finland, Box 111, 80101, Joensuu, Finland
2. City of Turku, Box 355, 20101, Turku, Finland
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| Abstract: | The aim of this work was to examine how well species-specific stand attributes can be predicted using a combination of airborne laser scanning (ALS) and existing stand register data in urban forests. In this context, the ability of three data combinations: ALS data and stand register data, ALS data and digital aerial images and all of these combined, was tested in the prediction of species-specific basal areas. We divided tree species into seven and three different tree species strata and applied two prediction methods: (1) regression method, in which the predicted total basal area was divided into tree species based on tree species proportions from stand register data, and (2) the nearest neighbour (NN) method, in which tree species proportions were used as predictor variables for species-specific basal areas. Prediction models were built based on training data of 205 field plots, and the accuracy of the models was tested based on validation data of 52 forests stands. Our results showed that species-specific predictions of seven tree species were more accurate when tree species proportions from stand register data were used in the prediction. Both the regression and the NN method provided reasonable accuracy. This study showed that tree species information from existing stand register data could be used as an alternative for aerial images in ALS-based forests inventories. The use of ALS data together with stand register data and small field data could also be economically beneficial in an inventory of urban forests. |
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