Detection of European Aspen (Populus tremula L.) Based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Approach in Boreal Forests
European aspen (Populus tremula L.) is a keystone species for biodiversity of boreal forests.Large-diameter aspens maintain the diversity of hundreds of species, many of which are threatened in Fennoscandia. Due to a low economic value and relatively sparse and scattered occurrence of aspen in borea...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/329900 2024-01-07T09:43:11+01:00 Detection of European Aspen (Populus tremula L.) Based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Approach in Boreal Forests Kuzmin, Anton Korhonen, Lauri Kivinen, Sonja Hurskainen, Pekka Korpelainen, Pasi Tanhuanpää, Topi Maltamo, Matti Vihervaara, Petteri Kumpula, Timo Earth Change Observation Laboratory (ECHOLAB) Department of Geosciences and Geography Department of Forest Sciences 2021-05-12T11:56:01Z 18 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/329900 eng eng MDPI 10.3390/rs13091723 Kuzmin , A , Korhonen , L , Kivinen , S , Hurskainen , P , Korpelainen , P , Tanhuanpää , T , Maltamo , M , Vihervaara , P & Kumpula , T 2021 , ' Detection of European Aspen (Populus tremula L.) Based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Approach in Boreal Forests ' , Remote Sensing , vol. 13 , no. 9 , 1723 . https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091723 ORCID: /0000-0003-1039-3357/work/93741322 bc5a1d71-1f9e-46da-ac78-c3625da42064 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/329900 000650731000001 cc_by openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 1171 Geosciences tree species classification European aspen UAV biodiversity deciduous trees machine learning multispectral data boreal forest PHOTOGRAMMETRIC POINT CLOUDS OLD-GROWTH LIDAR DATA ASSESSING BIODIVERSITY INDIVIDUAL TREES IMAGERY VEGETATION INVENTORY Article publishedVersion 2021 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:13:34Z European aspen (Populus tremula L.) is a keystone species for biodiversity of boreal forests.Large-diameter aspens maintain the diversity of hundreds of species, many of which are threatened in Fennoscandia. Due to a low economic value and relatively sparse and scattered occurrence of aspen in boreal forests, there is a lack of information of the spatial and temporal distribution of aspen, which hampers efficient planning and implementation of sustainable forest management practices and conservation efforts. Our objective was to assess identification of European aspen at the individual tree level in a southern boreal forest using high-resolution photogrammetric point cloud (PPC) and multispectral (MSP) orthomosaics acquired with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The structure-from-motion approach was applied to generate RGB imagery-based PPC to be used for individual tree-crown delineation. Multispectral data were collected using two UAV cameras:Parrot Sequoia and MicaSense RedEdge-M. Tree-crown outlines were obtained from watershed segmentation of PPC data and intersected with multispectral mosaics to extract and calculate spectral metrics for individual trees. We assessed the role of spectral data features extracted from PPC and multispectral mosaics and a combination of it, using a machine learning classifier—Support Vector Machine (SVM) to perform two different classifications: discrimination of aspen from the other species combined into one class and classification of all four species (aspen, birch, pine, spruce) simultaneously. In the first scenario, the highest classification accuracy of 84% (F1-score) for aspen and overall accuracy of 90.1% was achieved using only RGB features from PPC, whereas in the second scenario, the highest classification accuracy of 86 % (F1-score) for aspen and overall accuracy of 83.3% was achieved using the combination of RGB and MSP features. The proposed method provides a new possibility for the rapid assessment of aspen occurrence to enable more efficient forest management ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Fennoscandia HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository Remote Sensing 13 9 1723 |
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European aspen (Populus tremula L.) is a keystone species for biodiversity of boreal forests.Large-diameter aspens maintain the diversity of hundreds of species, many of which are threatened in Fennoscandia. Due to a low economic value and relatively sparse and scattered occurrence of aspen in boreal forests, there is a lack of information of the spatial and temporal distribution of aspen, which hampers efficient planning and implementation of sustainable forest management practices and conservation efforts. Our objective was to assess identification of European aspen at the individual tree level in a southern boreal forest using high-resolution photogrammetric point cloud (PPC) and multispectral (MSP) orthomosaics acquired with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The structure-from-motion approach was applied to generate RGB imagery-based PPC to be used for individual tree-crown delineation. Multispectral data were collected using two UAV cameras:Parrot Sequoia and MicaSense RedEdge-M. Tree-crown outlines were obtained from watershed segmentation of PPC data and intersected with multispectral mosaics to extract and calculate spectral metrics for individual trees. We assessed the role of spectral data features extracted from PPC and multispectral mosaics and a combination of it, using a machine learning classifier—Support Vector Machine (SVM) to perform two different classifications: discrimination of aspen from the other species combined into one class and classification of all four species (aspen, birch, pine, spruce) simultaneously. In the first scenario, the highest classification accuracy of 84% (F1-score) for aspen and overall accuracy of 90.1% was achieved using only RGB features from PPC, whereas in the second scenario, the highest classification accuracy of 86 % (F1-score) for aspen and overall accuracy of 83.3% was achieved using the combination of RGB and MSP features. The proposed method provides a new possibility for the rapid assessment of aspen occurrence to enable more efficient forest management ... |
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Detection of European Aspen (Populus tremula L.) Based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Approach in Boreal Forests |
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Detection of European Aspen (Populus tremula L.) Based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Approach in Boreal Forests |
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Detection of European Aspen (Populus tremula L.) Based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Approach in Boreal Forests |
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Detection of European Aspen (Populus tremula L.) Based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Approach in Boreal Forests |
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Detection of European Aspen (Populus tremula L.) Based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Approach in Boreal Forests |
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detection of european aspen (populus tremula l.) based on an unmanned aerial vehicle approach in boreal forests |
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10.3390/rs13091723 Kuzmin , A , Korhonen , L , Kivinen , S , Hurskainen , P , Korpelainen , P , Tanhuanpää , T , Maltamo , M , Vihervaara , P & Kumpula , T 2021 , ' Detection of European Aspen (Populus tremula L.) Based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Approach in Boreal Forests ' , Remote Sensing , vol. 13 , no. 9 , 1723 . https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13091723 ORCID: /0000-0003-1039-3357/work/93741322 bc5a1d71-1f9e-46da-ac78-c3625da42064 http://hdl.handle.net/10138/329900 000650731000001 |
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