Plant cover detection from visible satellite imagery

This paper explores green field detection methods for visible satellite images by applying well-known combination of vegetative index (COM), and developing two methods that are enhanced versions of COM to increase detection accuracies. An experiment was conducted on visible satellite images of 6 locations and 4 zoom levels obtained through Google Map API. The three methods were implemented to compare the detection accuracies. Results show that the proposed methods improved detection accuracies (computed using F-Measures) of the test image set.