1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Beijing 100101, China 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Ice-snow disasters are one of the main disruptions to forest ecological systems, causing the loss of forest structure and degeneration of ecological system's functions. Rapid and accurate assessment of forest resource loss has an important significance for starting the process post-disaster recovery and forest ecosystem management. Using MODIS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) images during 2001—2007, the authors extract pre-disaster reference value of plant NDVI and growth change threshold. In combination with post-disaster NDVI images, the range of Hunan forest ice-snow disaster is extracted by pre-disaster reference value and growth change threshold in 2008. The method of threshold ratio is proposed on the basis of method of image threshold, which is used to assess the loss of forest resources within the region of forest ice-snow disaster. A comparison with the method of image threshold shows that the assessing results from the method of threshold ratio are more close to the manual survey results, and its standard error is only 0.95, which is less than 1/3 of that of the image threshold method. The assessing results show that forest resources of the whole province have suffered serious losses: severe damaged rate, moderate damaged rate and mild damaged rate are 53.69%, 27.50% and 18.81%, respectively. What’s more, the analysis combined with topographic factors shows that forests in high altitudes are more severely affected than in low altitudes, and forests located in shady aspect are especially more severely affected.
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