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Processing Very High-Resolution Satellite Images for Individual Tree Identification with Local Maxima Method

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R3 in Geomatics: Research, Results and Review (R3GEO 2019)

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In the last decades, different Remote Sensing (RS) techniques and instruments were developed and utilized to manage and monitor the natural and semi-natural resources. Increasing the number of the sensors with the high spatial and spectral resolution, the remote sensing techniques and the Geographic Information System (GIS), provide more and detailed information, required for the precision agriculture tasks, and support, where possible, the decision-making process. The aim of this study is to develop a chain process, to obtain by using Earth Observation (EO) data, detailed information about the detection of the olive tree crowns. The Individual Tree Crown (ITC) detection process is implemented in a semi-automatic workflow based on Local Maxima Filter (LMF) applied on the Digital Aerial image and WorldView-2 (WV-2) images. The results indicate that the image data characteristics play a fundamental role to detect trees by EO data. For both datasets, the results show a higher accuracy achieved with the NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), highlighting the spectral characteristics of the vegetation in the red and InfraRed domain.

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  1. Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Università 100, 80055, Portici, NA, Italy

    Oscar Rosario Belfiore

  2. Department of Engineering, University of Almería, Ctra. de Sacramento s/n, La Cañada de San Urbano, 04120, Almería, Spain

    Manuel Angel Aguilar

  3. Department of Sciences and Technologies, Centro Direzionale di Napoli, University of Naples “Parthenope”, Isola C4, Naples, Italy

    Claudio Parente

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Belfiore, O.R., Aguilar, M.A., Parente, C. (2020). Processing Very High-Resolution Satellite Images for Individual Tree Identification with Local Maxima Method. In: Parente, C., Troisi, S., Vettore, A. (eds) R3 in Geomatics: Research, Results and Review. R3GEO 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1246. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62800-0_25

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