[GRASS-user] detecting olive trees from satellite imagery

[Margherita Di Leo]

Rich,

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:

>
>>
>   Is the reflected color spectrum of olive trees different from vegetation
> that would normally be expected outside the orchards?
>
>   If so, I would suggest a training set obtained by visiting a few olive
> orchards and recording the geographic coordinates of the center as well as
> an average radius (or the sides of a rectangular orchard). The satellite
> band values for those location can then be used to classify vegetation and
> find other olive orchards.
>
>   Of course, you've probably already done this, and it's been about 30
> years
> since I last worked with satellite imagery so I'm not current on the
> technologies.
>

 Thank you very much for your hint. I should have mentioned that I made
tentatives also in this direction. Unfortunately, so far this approach
didn't allow me to tell olive trees from other vegetation types.


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Dr. Margherita DI LEO
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European Commission - DG JRC
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