Global canopy height estimation with GEDI LIDAR waveforms and Bayesian
deep learning
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03975v1
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 23:08:27 GMT
- Title: Global canopy height estimation with GEDI LIDAR waveforms and Bayesian
deep learning
- Authors: Nico Lang, Nikolai Kalischek, John Armston, Konrad Schindler, Ralph
Dubayah, Jan Dirk Wegner
- Abstract summary: NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a key climate mission whose goal is to advance our understanding of the role of forests in the global carbon cycle.
We present a novel supervised machine learning approach to interpret GEDI waveforms and regress canopy top height globally.
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- Abstract: NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is a key climate
mission whose goal is to advance our understanding of the role of forests in
the global carbon cycle. While GEDI is the first space-based LIDAR explicitly
optimized to measure vertical forest structure predictive of aboveground
biomass, the accurate interpretation of this vast amount of waveform data
across the broad range of observational and environmental conditions is
challenging. Here, we present a novel supervised machine learning approach to
interpret GEDI waveforms and regress canopy top height globally. We propose a
Bayesian convolutional neural network (CNN) to avoid the explicit modelling of
unknown effects, such as atmospheric noise. The model learns to extract robust
features that generalize to unseen geographical regions and, in addition,
yields reliable estimates of predictive uncertainty. Ultimately, the global
canopy top height estimates produced by our model have an expected RMSE of 2.7
m with low bias.
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