Title :
Mapping pastures in Eastern Australia with NOAA-AVHRR NDVI and Landsat TM data
Author :
Hill, Michael J. ; Donald, Graham E.
Author_Institution :
Div. of Animal Production, CSIRO, Wembley, WA, Australia
Abstract :
Monthly NOAA-AVHRR NDVI data, and single date Landsat TM data at 10 sites within the AVHRR area, were used to classify pastoral land cover for the high rainfall zone of SE Australia for 1993. NDVI profiles and Landsat TM pixel compositions for typical pasture types are presented for a summer rainfall area in northern NSW and a seasonal Mediterranean climate in Western Victoria. Agreement between the classification and results of a survey of pasture types by professional agriculturalists is examined
Keywords :
agriculture; geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; image classification; remote sensing; AD 1993; AVHRR; Australia; IR imaging; Landsat TM; NDVI; NOAA; NSW; New South Wales; Victoria; agriculture; geophysical measurement technique; grass; high rainfall zone; image classification; multispectral remote sensing; optical imaging; pastoral land cover; pasture; pasture type; vegetation mapping; Animals; Australia; Image analysis; Image sequence analysis; Information analysis; Production; Remote sensing; Satellites; Springs; Vegetation mapping;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.1997.615861
