Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2008

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, IPCV 2008

Pages

245-251

Conference Name

2008 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, IPCV 2008, July 14-July 17, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada

Abstract

Automatic vegetation identification plays an important role in many applications including remote sensing and high performance flight simulations. This paper presents a method to automatically identify vegetation based upon satellite imagery. First, we utilize the ISODATA algorithm to cluster pixels in the images where the number of clusters is determined by the algorithm. We then apply morphological operations to the clustered images to smooth the boundaries between clusters and to fill holes inside clusters. After that, we compute six features for each cluster. These six features then go through a feature selection algorithm and three of them are determined to be effective for vegetation identification. Finally, we classify the resulting clusters as vegetation and nonvegetation types based on the selected features using a multilayer percetron (MLP) classifier. We tested our algorithm by using the 5-fold cross-validation method and achieved 96% classification accuracy based on the three selected features.

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© 2008 CSREA Press. All rights reserved.

Included with the kind written permission of the editor.

Original Publication Citation

Mantena, V. K. R., Pedada, R., Jakkula, S., Shen, Y., & Li, J. (2008) Vegetation identification based on satellite imagery. In H. R. Arabnia (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, IPCV 2008 (pp. 245-251). CSREA Press.

ORCID

0000-0003-0091-6986 (Li)

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