TY - JOUR
T1 - Characterizing spatiotemporal non-stationarity in vegetation dynamics in China using MODIS EVI dataset
AU - Qiu, Bingwen
AU - Zeng, Canying
AU - Tang, Zhenghong
AU - Chen, Chongcheng
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Acknowledgments We gratefully acknowledge the financial support received for this work from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (grant no. 41071267), Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Scholars ([2012]940), Ministry of Education of China, and the Science Foundation of Fujian Province (grant no. 2012I0005, 2012J01167). We are also thankful for the three anonymous reviewers that offered valuable suggestions to help improve this manuscript. The authors would like to thank NASA LP DAAC for providing public-accessing to the MODIS data. The 1-km land cover distribution map of China was provided by Environmental and Ecological Science Data Center for West China at National Natural Science Foundation of China.
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - This paper evaluated the spatiotemporal non-stationarity in the vegetation dynamic based on 1-km resolution 16-day composite Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) datasets in China during 2001-2011 through a wavelet transform method. First, it revealed from selected pixels that agricultural crops, natural forests, and meadows were characterized by their distinct intra-annual temporal variation patterns in different climate regions. The amplitude of intra-annual variability generally increased with latitude. Second, parameters calculated using a per-pixel strategy indicated that the natural forests had the strongest variation pattern from seasonal to semiannual scales, and the multiple-cropping croplands typically showed almost equal variances distributed at monthly, seasonal, and semiannual scales. Third, spatiotemporal non-stationarity induced from cloud cover was also evaluated. It revealed that the EVI temporal profiles were significantly distorted with regular summer cloud cover in tropical and subtropical regions. Nevertheless, no significant differences were observed from those statistical parameters related to the interannual and interannual components between the de-clouded and the original MODIS EVI datasets across the whole country. Finally, 12 vegetation zones were proposed based on spatiotemporal variability, as indicated by the magnitude of interannual and intra-annual dynamic components, normalized wavelet variances of detailed components from monthly to semiannual scale, and proportion of cloud cover in summer. This paper provides insightful solutions for addressing spatiotemporal non-stationarity by evaluating the magnitude and frequency of vegetation variability using monthly, seasonal, semiannual to interannual scales across the whole study area.
AB - This paper evaluated the spatiotemporal non-stationarity in the vegetation dynamic based on 1-km resolution 16-day composite Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) datasets in China during 2001-2011 through a wavelet transform method. First, it revealed from selected pixels that agricultural crops, natural forests, and meadows were characterized by their distinct intra-annual temporal variation patterns in different climate regions. The amplitude of intra-annual variability generally increased with latitude. Second, parameters calculated using a per-pixel strategy indicated that the natural forests had the strongest variation pattern from seasonal to semiannual scales, and the multiple-cropping croplands typically showed almost equal variances distributed at monthly, seasonal, and semiannual scales. Third, spatiotemporal non-stationarity induced from cloud cover was also evaluated. It revealed that the EVI temporal profiles were significantly distorted with regular summer cloud cover in tropical and subtropical regions. Nevertheless, no significant differences were observed from those statistical parameters related to the interannual and interannual components between the de-clouded and the original MODIS EVI datasets across the whole country. Finally, 12 vegetation zones were proposed based on spatiotemporal variability, as indicated by the magnitude of interannual and intra-annual dynamic components, normalized wavelet variances of detailed components from monthly to semiannual scale, and proportion of cloud cover in summer. This paper provides insightful solutions for addressing spatiotemporal non-stationarity by evaluating the magnitude and frequency of vegetation variability using monthly, seasonal, semiannual to interannual scales across the whole study area.
KW - China
KW - Enhanced Vegetation Index
KW - Pixel reliability
KW - Spatiotemporal non-stationary
KW - Wavelet transform
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U2 - 10.1007/s10661-013-3231-2
DO - 10.1007/s10661-013-3231-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 23649474
AN - SCOPUS:84885482059
SN - 0167-6369
VL - 185
SP - 9019
EP - 9035
JO - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
JF - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
IS - 11
ER -