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Support of Multispectral Very High Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery for Old-growth Beech Forest Detection
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Paolo, Silvia Di Giuliarelli, Diego Ferrari, Barbara Barbati, Anna Corona, Piermaria |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | In the Mediterranean basin human activity has modified landscapes for millennia, nevertheless there are few remote forest areas relatively untouched long enough from direct anthropogenic disturbance to develop old-growth attributes. The aim of this note is to assess the potential of QuickBird (QB) satellite multispectral imagery for detecting old-growth forest stands, considering as case study a Mediterranean beech forest in central Italy. The segmentation-based analysis of QB image proved to be a promising tool to detect scaledependent pattern of forest structural heterogeneity. Values of remotely sensed attributes are compared in old-growth and not-old-growth stands: the statistical analysis showed that oldgrowthness is associated to the variability of multispectral reflectance from the image objects (polygons). Green band variability, notably, expressed by Ratio_band_2 has proven to be helpful for predicting old-growthness. |
| Starting Page | 519 |
| Ending Page | 527 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.4129/ifm.2010.5.04 |
| Volume Number | 65 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ojs.aisf.it/index.php/ifm/article/download/420/396 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.4129/ifm.2010.5.04 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |