With the improvement of remote sensing technology, the spatial, structural and texture information of land covers are present clearly in high resolution imagery, which enhances the ability of crop mapping. Since the satellite RapidEye was launched in 2009, high resolution multispectral imagery together with wide red edge band has been utilized in vegetation monitoring. Broad red edge band relat...

Remotely sensed data is widely used in ecological applications because of its great advantages. These advantages are that the measures are being objective, repeatable and serve continuous data of the observed area opposed to traditional field survey based data collection (Zagajewskij et al. 2005). The remote observation of different vegetation species is important and quantitative and qualitati...

The degradation rate of Mediterranean steppes, especially in North Africa is 1% per year, and this considered a high  rate of degradation. This study conducted in 2014 in the south slope of the Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, northeast Libya to quantify the vegetation recovery rate and assess selected Vegetation Indices (VIs) for mapping rangelands degradation status using remote sensing technology. Throug...

Habitat mapping as defined by plant communities is a common component of the planning and monitoring for conservation management. This study provided the test of two classifiers for producing the vegetation mapping in a tropical island. The selected area is Prathong Island, Phang Nga Province, Southern part of Thailand. The performance of the support vector machines (SVMs) image classification ...

This paper describes a ~emi-quantitative method of mapping vegetation at scales of the order of one mile to the inch using aerial photographs. It has been developed during a survey of Tongariro National Park in which more information than would normally be derived from a reconnaissance survey is required but where, due to the size of the area, time for sampling is limited. The aim has been to m...

Increasing demands on the accuracy and thematic resolution of vegetation community maps from remote sensing imagery has created a need for novel image analysis techniques. We present a case study for vegetation mapping of the Lake Tahoe Basin which fulfills many of the requirements of the Federal Geographic Data Committee base-level mapping (FGDC, 1997) by using hyperspatial Ikonos imagery anal...

Researchers at the Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science (CRMS) at The University of Georgia have worked with the U.S. Department of Interior National Park Service (NPS) over the past decade to create detailed vegetation databases for several National Parks and Historic Sites in the southeastern United States. The sizes of the parks under investigation vary from Everglades National Park...

Gil A., Yu Q., Lobo A., Lourenço P., Silva L. and Calado H., 2011. Assessing the effectiveness of high resolution satellite imagery for vegetation mapping in small islands protected areas. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 64 (Proceedings of the 11th International Coastal Symposium), 1663-1667. Szczecin, Poland, ISSN 0749-0208 S. Miguel Island's vascular plant flora (Archipelago of the Azores, Po...

estimation of vegetation cover attributes, such as the leaf area index (lai), is an important step in identifying the amount of water use for some plants. the goal of this study is to investigate the feasibility of using irs liss-iii data to retrieve lai. to get a lai retrieval model based on reflectance and vegetation index, detailed field data were collected in the study area of eastern iran....