Detection of Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata and Juniperus procera in the dry Afromontane forest of northern Ethiopia using subpixel analysis of Landsat imagery

Hadgu Hishe; Kidane Giday; Mulugeta Neka; Teshome Soromessa; Jos Van Orshoven; Bart Muys

doi:10.1117/1.JRS.9.095975

24 December 2015 Detection of Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata and Juniperus procera in the dry Afromontane forest of northern Ethiopia using subpixel analysis of Landsat imagery

Hadgu Hishe, Kidane Giday, Mulugeta Neka, Teshome Soromessa, Jos Van Orshoven, Bart Muys

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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 9, Issue 1, 095975 (December 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.9.095975

Abstract

Comprehensive and less costly forest inventory approaches are required to monitor the spatiotemporal dynamics of key species in forest ecosystems. Subpixel analysis using the earth resources data analysis system imagine subpixel classification procedure was tested to extract Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata and Juniperus procera canopies from Landsat 7 enhanced thematic mapper plus imagery. Control points with various canopy area fractions of the target species were collected to develop signatures for each of the species. With these signatures, the imagine subpixel classification procedure was run for each species independently. The subpixel process enabled the detection of O. europaea subsp. cuspidata and J. procera trees in pure and mixed pixels. Total of 100 pixels each were field verified for both species. An overall accuracy of 85% was achieved for O. europaea subsp. cuspidata and 89% for J. procera. A high overall accuracy level of detecting species at a natural forest was achieved, which encourages using the algorithm for future species monitoring activities. We recommend that the algorithm has to be validated in similar environment to enrich the knowledge on its capability to ensure its wider usage.

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Hadgu Hishe, Kidane Giday, Mulugeta Neka, Teshome Soromessa, Jos Van Orshoven, and Bart Muys "Detection of Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata and Juniperus procera in the dry Afromontane forest of northern Ethiopia using subpixel analysis of Landsat imagery," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 9(1), 095975 (24 December 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.9.095975

Published: 24 December 2015

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