Matching of High Resolution Satellite Image and Tree Crown Map
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In forest area, there are few landmarks to be ground control points (GCPs) used for registration of satellite images or maps. Additionally, geographic information from the Global Positioning System (GPS) in field measurement survey is insufficient accuracy to identify individual tree crowns from satellite image. In this study, we propose the method of identifying individual tree crowns from satellite image using field measured data. First, in order to obtain the field measured data, we collected several information of individual trees in the test site. These are the tree stand locations, the distances between the tree trunk and outermost branch in eight directions, the diameter at breast height, and tree species. Then, using the field measured data, we created the projected on-ground crown map which has the location and shape of individual trees. The each shape of tree crown is octagonal. Next, we detected the regions of tree crown from IKONOS panchromatic image. Watershed algorithm was used for image segmentation, based on mathematical morphology considers gray-scale images to be sets of points in a three-dimensional space, the third dimension being the gray level. The segmented regions were classified to discriminate tree crown using the feature of spectral signature. Finally, we found out individual tree crowns related with field measured data from satellite image. Using a GCP by GPS equipment, we performed roughly registration of the satellite image to the projected on-ground crown map. For each tree crown in the map, we found out the same tree, which has the highest corresponding possibility to the tree crown in the map, among segmented regions obtained from satellite image. This treeto-tree matching algorithm was performed using the fitness value of the location and octagonal shape of both tree crowns in image and map. We could obtain the optimum registration by affine transformation of highest fitness value without ground control points. Consequently, we could identify individual tree crowns from satellite image by image-to-map rectification.
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