Forest cartography of Spain based on the classification of NOAA-AVHRR multitemporal images

Author

González-Alonso, Federico ; Roque, José Luis Casanova

Author_Institution

Lab. de Teledeteccion, Inst. Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias, Madrid, Spain

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

3-8 Aug 1997

Firstpage

87

Abstract

Fast and common forest cartography in the whole Spanish territory, based on the images provided by the AVHRR sensor, belonging to the NOAA satellites, can be of a great help to identify the areas where the most important changes of the forest covers have taken place. A non-supervised multitemporal classification based on six weekly composites images of the Normalized Differential Vegetation Index-NDVI-has been done. Its results are promising. The purpose is to obtain fast and inexpensive up-to-date cartography of the whole country

Keywords

cartography; forestry; geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; image classification; image sequences; remote sensing; AVHRR; IR imaging; NDVI; NOAA; Normalized Differential Vegetation Index; Spain; cartography; forest change; forestry; geophysical measurement technique; image classification; image sequences; multitemporal images; optical imaging; satellite remote sensing; vegetation mapping; Fires; Image sensors; Laboratories; Large-scale systems; Radiometry; Receiving antennas; Remote sensing; Satellite broadcasting; Statistics; Vegetation mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1997. IGARSS '97. Remote Sensing - A Scientific Vision for Sustainable Development., 1997 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3836-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1997.615805

Filename

615805