The urgent need to develop a new grassland map in China:based on the consistency and accuracy of ten land cover products

作     者：Mengjing Hou Jing Ge Yangjing Xiu Baoping Meng Jie Liu Qisheng Feng Tiangang Liang 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-EcosystemsKey Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry InnovationMinistry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsEngineering Research Center of Grassland IndustryMinistry of EducationCollege of Pastoral Agriculture Science and TechnologyLanzhou UniversityLanzhou 730000China Institute of Fragile Eco-EnvironmentNantong UniversityNantong 226007China 

出 版 物：《Science China(Life Sciences)》 (中国科学（生命科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2023年第66卷第2期

页      面：385-405页

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学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 07[理学] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：supported by the Major Consulting Research Project of the Chinese Academy of Engineering(2020-XZ-29,2021-HZ-5,2022-HZ-09) the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,Lanzhou University(lzujbky-2020-kb29,lzujbky-2021-kb13) China Agriculture Research System of MOF(Ministry of Finance)and MARA(Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs) Gansu Province 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student“Innovation Star”Project(2021CXZX-040) Key Laboratory of Grassland Livestock Industry Innovation,Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs,China“Top Innovative Talents”Training Program(CMSYS2020-5) the 111 Project(B12002)。 

主　　题：grassland land use and land cover MCD12Q1 CLCD consistency comparison accuracy assessment 

摘      要：Grasslands are the most dominant terrestrial ecosystem in China, but few national grassland maps have been generated. The grassland resource map produced in the 1980s is widely used as background data, but it has not been updated for almost 40 years.Therefore, a reliable map depicting the current spatial distribution of grasslands across the country is urgently needed. In this study, we evaluated the grassland consistency and accuracy of ten land cover datasets(GLC2000, GlobCover, CCI-LC,MCD12Q1, CLUD, GlobeLand30, GLC-FCS30, CGLS-LC100, CLCD, and FROM-GLC) for 2000, 2010, and 2020 based on extensive fieldwork. We concluded that the area of these ten grassland products ranges from 107.80×10^(4)to 332.46×10^(4)km^(2), with CLCD and MCD12Q1 having the highest area consistency. The spatial and sample consistency is highest in the regions of eastcentral Inner Mongolia, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and northern Xinjiang, while the distribution of southern grasslands is scattered and differs considerably among the ten products. MCD12Q1 is significantly more accurate than the other nine products,with an overall accuracy(OA) reaching 77.51% and a kappa coefficient of 0.51;CLCD is slightly less accurate than MCD12Q1(OA=73.02%, kappa coefficient=0.45) and is more conducive to the fine monitoring and management of grassland because of its30-meter resolution. The highest accuracy of grassland was found in the Inner Mongolia-Ningxia region and Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, while the accuracy was worst in the southeastern region. In the future grassland mapping, cartographers should improve the accuracy of the grassland distribution in South China and regions where grassland is confused with forest, cropland and bare land. We specify the availability of valuable data in existing land cover datasets for China’s grasslands and call for researchers and the government to actively produce a new generation of grassland maps.