NEON AOP foliar trait maps, maps of model uncertainty estimates, and conifer map, East River, CO 2018
This data package contains mapped trait estimates and their uncertainties, and conifer map, for the National Ecological Observatory Network's Airborne Observation Platform survey data acquired over the Upper East River, Colorado in 2018. For full details, please see associated reference. in brief, trait models were developed independently for needle and non-needle leaf species using partial least squares regression (PLSR) using ground data from additional datasets: doi:10.15485/1618130, doi:10.15485/1618132, and doi:10.15485/1631278, merged with extracted spectral data from doi:10.15485/1618131. We separated vegetated pixels into needle and non-needle classes in order to generate a classification map based on the spectral differences between these leaf types (conifer.tif). We trained a deep learning model with custom architecture, detailed in Chadwick et al. In Press. The model performed with 0.998 true positive rate and 0.982 true negative rate, with ‘positives’ being non-needle identification. We then utilized PLSR to generate models of foliar traits for each leaf type. So that we could also map uncertainty in these predictions, we generated ten different models for needle and non-needle leaf species using different testing holdout sets of discrete sites. Each of these models was developed with a 100-fold cross validation procedure that utilized a 70% training set and 30% validation set with each fold, and then assessed based on the 10% of testing sites that were not included in that model’s development. The mean predicted value across the 10 models is used for the trait estimate in each pixel across the study area. The models are applied according to the leaf type designation in the conifer.tif map. The errors are the standard deviation across the 10 different models developed, with high error suggesting instability in model prediction and areas where values may not be reliable for ecological inference. These maps are only applied to areas with a NDVI > 0.5 to exclude non-vegetated areas. Shade masks could be applied to these data (doi:10.15485/1618131), but have not been for this data package. These data are also available on Google Earth Engine: https://code.earthengine.google.com/?asset=users/kdc/ER_NEON
- Research Organization:
- Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem (ESS-DIVE) (United States); A Multiscale Approach to Modeling Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling within a High Elevation Watershed
- Sponsoring Organization:
- NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellowship, Chadwick, ID: 1725788; National Science Foundation under NSF-1841547; U.S. Department of Energy BER award, PI: Maher, DE-SC0018155; U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI ID:
- 1618133
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > NITROGEN
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EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > LEAF CHARACTERISTICS
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