Poplar Tree Index (PTI): A New Vegetation Index for Monitoring Poplar Cultivated Areas


Colkesen I., Kavzoglu T., Tonbul H., Ozturk M. Y., Yilmaz E. O.

2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2022, Kuala-Lumpur, Malezya, 17 - 22 Temmuz 2022, cilt.2022-July, ss.5567-5570, (Tam Metin Bildiri) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 2022-July
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/igarss46834.2022.9883085
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Kuala-Lumpur
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Malezya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.5567-5570
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: WorldView-3, Vegetation Index, Poplar, Populus, Separability Index
  • Kocaeli Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

© 2022 IEEE.The issue of accurate identification of the Earth's surface features from the very high spatial resolution (VHSR) satellite imagery has been a major area of interest within the field of remote sensing. Vegetation indices obtained from the remotely sensed imagery have long been used as a simple but effective tool for quantitative and qualitative identification of land surface materials. In this study, a new vegetation index called Poplar Tree Index (PTI) was introduced for the identification of poplar (Populus) tree cultivated field from the WorldView-3 imagery having unique features including 31cm panchromatic resolution and super-spectral resolutions. To test its capability in distinguishing poplar cultivated fields from the other cultivated fields, four well-known vegetation indices were also utilized, and their performances were quantitatively analyzed based on the separability measures (i.e., Bhattacharyya Distance and M-Statistic). Results revealed that the use of PTI significantly increased the discrimination level of pixels representing poplar planted areas from maize and hazelnuts.