The present invention discloses a method for extracting artificial forests remotely sensed based on the vertical structural complexity of
satellite-borne
laser waveforms. The method comprises the following steps: step 1, obtaining L1B
geolocation waveforms, L2A spot-scale global surface height and
vegetation height, and L2B spot-scale global crown cover and vertical profile index
product data of a
satellite-borne full-waveform
laser radar (GEDI) in a forest area; step 2, performing a preprocessing operation on the acquired data to obtain high-quality
satellite-borne
laser radar spots in the area; step 3, performing
feature extraction, calculating the information entropy of a single spot echo waveform and the waveform similarity of adjacent spots from the L1B
geolocation waveform data, extracting
canopy cover and leaf height
diversity index from the L2B spot-scale global crown cover and vertical profile index, constructing a
linear model of height percentiles in the L2A spot-scale global surface height and
vegetation height data, and calculating the slope of the
linear model as a feature; step 4, inputting the above five features and using a
random forest model to classify and extract artificial forests and natural forests; and step 5, evaluating the extraction accuracy of artificial forests and the importance of features. The present invention obtains multiple vertical structural features of the forest through the waveform information of the satellite-borne laser
radar, and combines it with the
random forest model to extract the artificial forest stands. It can fully utilize the vertical structural characteristics of the satellite-borne laser waveform in the forest area to distinguish between artificial forests and natural forests.