Object based technique for delineating and mapping 15 tree species using VHR WorldView-2 imagery

Yaseen T. Mustafa; Hindav N. Habeeb

doi:10.1117/12.2067280

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29 October 2014 Object based technique for delineating and mapping 15 tree species using VHR WorldView-2 imagery

Yaseen T. Mustafa, Hindav N. Habeeb

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Proceedings Volume 9239, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XVI; 92390G (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2067280
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Monitoring and analyzing forests and trees are required task to manage and establish a good plan for the forest sustainability. To achieve such a task, information and data collection of the trees are requested. The fastest way and relatively low cost technique is by using satellite remote sensing. In this study, we proposed an approach to identify and map 15 tree species in the Mangish sub-district, Kurdistan Region-Iraq. Image-objects (IOs) were used as the tree species mapping unit. This is achieved using the shadow index, normalized difference vegetation index and texture measurements. Four classification methods (Maximum Likelihood, Mahalanobis Distance, Neural Network, and Spectral Angel Mapper) were used to classify IOs using selected IO features derived from WorldView-2 imagery. Results showed that overall accuracy was increased 5-8% using the Neural Network method compared with other methods with a Kappa coefficient of 69%. This technique gives reasonable results of various tree species classifications by means of applying the Neural Network method with IOs techniques on WorldView-2 imagery.

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Yaseen T. Mustafa and Hindav N. Habeeb "Object based technique for delineating and mapping 15 tree species using VHR WorldView-2 imagery", Proc. SPIE 9239, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology XVI, 92390G (29 October 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2067280

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