Western Siberia’s Taiga Wetlands Mapping Based on Remote Sensing Data
https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556620060102
Abstract
Investigations of wetlands are important for understanding the climate processes because wetlands are the source of methane and the tank of CO2. However, high fine-scale heterogeneity of wetlands complicates estimating carbon balance using point observations. To estimate methane emission, we mapped wetlands and water body areas in taiga of Western Siberia using supervised classification of Landsat images. For these purposes, we used our own dataset of field observation on 28 test sites as well as the high-resolution images. A wetland classification scheme included 6 main wetland types that are widely spread in taiga zone. Overall accuracy of 79% was calculated using 1082 polygons of 10 × 10 pixel size. Wetland area was estimated at 54.6 Mha or 11% of the global wetland areas. The average area of wetlands reached 29% of the zone area. Patterned bogs dominated in taiga (31% of the wetland area) followed by patterned bogs with lakes (18%) and forested bogs (18%). Fens (16%), water bodies (11%) and palsa complexes covers the rest of the area. We expect considerable growth of the regional methane flux as a result of significant changes of wetland areas comparing to the previous estimates. New map might be useful for model and global wetland dataset validation.
Supporting agencies: The research was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 18-35-00340.
About the Authors
I. E. Terentieva
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Russian Federation
Moscow
Russian Federation
Moscow
I. V. Filippov
Yugra State University
Russian Federation
Khanty-Mansiysk
Russian Federation
Khanty-Mansiysk
A. F. Sabrekov
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution; Yugra State University; Water Problems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Moscow
Khanty-Mansiysk
M. V. Glagolev
Yugra State University; Water Problems Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lomonosov Moscow State University; Institute of Forest Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Khanty-Mansiysk
Moscow
Uspenskoe, Moscow Oblast
J. A. Kurbatova
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Russian Federation
Moscow
Russian Federation
Moscow
S. Maksyutov
National Institute for Environmental Studies
Japan
Tsukuba
Japan
Tsukuba
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Terentieva I.E., Filippov I.V., Sabrekov A.F., Glagolev M.V., Kurbatova J.A., Maksyutov S. Western Siberia’s Taiga Wetlands Mapping Based on Remote Sensing Data. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2020;84(6):920-930. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556620060102
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