Spatial functional data modeling of plant reflectances

DOI10.1214/21-AOAS1576zbMATH Open1498.62295arXiv2102.03249OpenAlexW3126291030WikidataQ114599214 ScholiaQ114599214MaRDI QIDQ2170446FDOQ2170446

Alan E. Gelfand, Michael F. Christensen, John A. Silander, Philip A. White, Henry Frye

Publication date: 5 September 2022

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Plant reflectance spectra - the profile of light reflected by leaves across different wavelengths - supply the spectral signature for a species at a spatial location to enable estimation of functional and taxonomic diversity for plants. We consider leaf spectra as "responses" to be explained spatially. These spectra/reflectances are functions over a wavelength band that respond to the environment. Our motivating data are gathered for several families from the Cape Floristic Region (CFR) in South Africa and lead us to develop rich novel spatial models that can explain spectra for genera within families. Wavelength responses for an individual leaf are viewed as a function of wavelength, leading to functional data modeling. Local environmental features become covariates. We introduce wavelength - covariate interaction since the response to environmental regressors may vary with wavelength, so may variance. Formal spatial modeling enables prediction of reflectances for genera at unobserved locations with known environmental features. We incorporate spatial dependence, wavelength dependence, and space-wavelength interaction (in the spirit of space-time interaction). We implement out-of-sample validation to select a best model, discovering that the model features listed above are all informative for the functional data analysis. We then supply interpretation of the results under the selected model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.03249

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zbMATH Keywords

functional data analysisheterogeneityspatial confoundinghierarchical modelinteractionreflectanceenvironmental regressorskernel weighting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric regression and quantile regression (62G08) Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12) Functional data analysis (62R10)

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