A Methodology to Generate Integrated Land Cover Data for Land Surface Model by Improving Dempster-Shafer Theory

作者：Anqi Huang, Runping Shen, Yeqing Li, Huimin Han, Wenli Di, Daniel Fiifi Tawia Hagan · 发表于：Remote Sensing · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.3390/rs14040972 · 被引用次数：20 · 研究领域：Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies、Cryospheric studies and observations、Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing

Land cover type is a key parameter for simulating surface processes in many land surface models (LSMs). Currently, the widely used global remote sensing land cover products cannot meet the requirements of LSMs for classification systems, physical definition, data accuracy, and space-time resolution. Here, a new fusion method was proposed to generate land cover data for LSMs by fusing multi-source remote sensing land cover data, which was based on improving Dempster-Shafer evidence theory with mathematical models and knowledge rules optimization. The new method has the ability to deal with seriously disagreement information, thereby improving the robustness of the theory. The results showed the new method can reduce the disagreement between input data and realized the conversion of multiple land cover classification systems to into a single land cover classification system. China Fusion Land Cover data (CFLC) in 2015 generated by the new method maintained the classification accuracy of the China land use map (CNLULC), which is based on visual image interpretation and further enriched land cover classes of input data. Compared with Geo-Wiki observations in 2015, the overall accuracy for CFLC is higher than other two global land cover data. Compared with the observations, the 0–10 cm soil moisture simulated by the CFLC in Noah–MP LSM during the growing season in 2014 had better performance than that simulated by initial land cover data and MODIS land cover data. Our new method i...