Groves decipherment from space photos using prototype matching

  • Authors:
  • Uri Lipowezky

  • Affiliations:
  • Tiltan Systems Engineering Ltd., 3 Iris Street 5, Kiron, Kiryat Ono 55453, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters - Special issue: Pattern recognition for remote sensing (PRRS 2002)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Common groves consist of single trees, forests and glades. Their decipherment involves three main components: trees and forests detection with recognition of their textures, contour segmentation and reconstruction of forest stand parameters. They can both be simple parameters such as tree height, crown closure etc. or complex parameters such as species components. It is shown that using textural prototype matching can solve all three tasks. The experiments show relatively high reliability of the proposed technique: 65-70% for special components reconstruction and 77-82% for direct forest stand parameters.