Mapping Robinia pseudoacacia forest health in the Yellow River delta by using high-resolution IKONOS imagery and object-based image analysis

Hong Wang; Kaiyu Lu; Ruiliang Pu

doi:10.1117/1.JRS.10.045022

20 December 2016 Mapping Robinia pseudoacacia forest health in the Yellow River delta by using high-resolution IKONOS imagery and object-based image analysis

Hong Wang, Kaiyu Lu, Ruiliang Pu

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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 10, Issue 4, 045022 (December 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.10.045022

Abstract

The Robinia pseudoacacia forest in the Yellow River delta of China has been planted since the 1970s, and a large area of dieback of the forest has occurred since the 1990s. To assess the condition of the R. pseudoacacia forest in three forest areas (i.e., Gudao, Machang, and Abandoned Yellow River) in the delta, we combined an estimation of scale parameters tool and geometry/topology assessment criteria to determine the optimal scale parameters, selected optimal predictive variables determined by stepwise discriminant analysis, and compared object-based image analysis (OBIA) and pixel-based approaches using IKONOS data. The experimental results showed that the optimal segmentation scale is 5 for both the Gudao and Machang forest areas, and 12 for the Abandoned Yellow River forest area. The results produced by the OBIA method were much better than those created by the pixel-based method. The overall accuracy of the OBIA method was 93.7% (versus 85.4% by the pixel-based) for Gudao, 89.0% (versus 72.7%) for Abandoned Yellow River, and 91.7% (versus 84.4%) for Machang. Our analysis results demonstrated that the OBIA method was an effective tool for rapidly mapping and assessing the health levels of forest.

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Hong Wang, Kaiyu Lu, and Ruiliang Pu "Mapping Robinia pseudoacacia forest health in the Yellow River delta by using high-resolution IKONOS imagery and object-based image analysis," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 10(4), 045022 (20 December 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.10.045022

Received: 4 August 2016; Accepted: 17 November 2016; Published: 20 December 2016

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