Enhanced duckweed detection using bootstrapped SVM classification on medium resolution RGB MODIS imagery

  • Authors:
  • C. Castillo;I. Chollett;E. Klein

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratorio de Sensores Remotos, INTECMAR, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela,Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA;Laboratorio de Sensores Remotos, INTECMAR, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela;Laboratorio de Sensores Remotos, INTECMAR, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela,Departamento de Estudios Ambientales, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Remote Sensing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

From early 2004, Lake Maracaibo (northwest Venezuela) experienced an unprecedented invasion of duckweed Lemna obscura. Recurrent blooms of the plant in the past 2 years illustrate the need for an automatic monitoring method to follow the plant cover with time and to plan contingency measures. We present an approach that allows the cover of the duckweed to be quantified through the classification of MODIS 250 m RGB composite images available from the internet. The method improves the accuracy of the results of the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm for classification by including a bootstrap step during the training phase. Using only 200 pixels for training (