Persian juniper and Pistachio are grown in low density in the rangelands of North-East of Iran. These rangelands are populated by evergreen conifers, which are widespread and present at low-density and sparse shrub of pistachio in Iran, that are not only environmentally but also genetically essential as seed sources for pistachio improvement in orchards. Rangelands offer excellent opportunities...

As the key principle of precision farming, distribution fractional vegetation cover is basis crop management within field serves. To estimate FVC rapidly at farm scale, high temporal-spatial resolution imagery obtained by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was adopted. verify application potential consumer-grade UAV RGB in estimated FVC, blue-green characteristic index (TBVI) and red-green (TRVI) we...

Juniperus excelsa subsp. Polycarpos, which Iranians known as the Persian juniper located in the northeast of Iran.ALOS satellite using multispectral band (AVNIR-2) with 10-meter resolution and Panchromatic band (PRISM) with 2.5-meter resolution has been used.Two kinds of method (pixel and object) for tree extraction have been calculated. Object orientedSupport Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm has...

The pistachio (Pistacia.vera) belongs to the Anacardiaceae family. Plants of this family are trees or shrubs (broadleaf) and in total comprising 75 genera and 600 species. This species is found in arid and semi-arid regions, located in the northeast of Iran. Many algorithms have been investigated for tree delineation and identification, in order to assist human operators in the information expl...

one of the influential tools concerning the rangeland and vegetation sciences isthe technology of remote sensing and satellite data. satellite data have played essentialroles in preparing the needed information for studying the vegetation. vegetation has beenwidely recognized as one of the best indicators for determining the land conditions. usingvegetation indices is one of the techniques of r...

Remote sensing of vegetation condition using high resolution digital multispectral imagery (DMSI) is an option for land managers interested in quantifying the distribution and extent of dieback in native forest. Crown condition is assessed as reference to the physical structure and foliage (i.e. density, transparency, extent and in-crown distribution) of a tree crown. At 20 sites in the Yalgoru...

A new moisture adjusted vegetation index (MAVI) is proposed using the red, near infrared, and shortwave infrared (SWIR) reflectance in band-ratio form in this paper. The effectiveness of MAVI in retrieving leaf area index (LAI) is investigated using Landsat-5 data and field LAI measurements in two forest and two grassland areas. The ability of MAVI to retrieve forest LAI under different backgro...

Vegetation indices have been used extensively to estimate the vegetation density from satellite and airborne images for many years. In this paper we first focus on one of the most popular vegetation indices, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI ) [1] and introduce a statistical framework to analyze it. We propose a solution to the saturation problem of this index based on our statis...

Background: Baekdudaegan was designated in 2005 as a protected area to prevent destruction and conserve. However, there are many disturbed and destroyed areas. The total disturbed area amounts to 25.9 km (0.94%), including 13.4 km (0.49%) in the core area and 12.5 km (0.45%) in the buffer area. This study aims to classify the vegetation types established in the disturbed areas and diagnose the ...