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AUTOKART |
| Automatic mapping of dune vegetation along the Flemish coast |
| Contact |
Els KNAEPS |
Start (End) Date |
01/09/2010 (29/02/2012) |
| Consortium |
2 partners |
Project Coordination |
VITO |
| Website |
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Related Projects |
Hyperkart, Digikart |
| Keywords |
dune vegetation, automatic mapping |
Project Objectives
The objective of this project is to construct an automatic mapping tool by which dune vegetation along the Flemish coast can be mapped into eight predefined classes, viz. marram grass, moss-dune, dune grassland, shrubs, forest, bare soil, water and shadow.
Methodology
Using the methodology developed in the DIGIKART project as a baseline, an automatic image processing tool will be developed by which DIGICAM images and optionally vegetation height images are used to construct the dune vegetation maps. Seventeen subareas along the Flemish coast are defined via shapefiles for which dune vegetation maps need to be produced. The digital camera RGB(N) bands, the vegetation height raster images and the texture band derived from vegetation height bands and the vegetation height are combined in multiband layer images. A ground truth vector file is used to extract the required end members which are subsequently used in a LDA classifier for the final dune vegetation map classification.
(Expected) Results
The final outcome is a stand-alone SW tool, developed in IDL and equipped with a GUI, by which in a fully automated way, dune vegetation maps can be produced using DIGICAM and vegetation height maps as input.
VITO Contribution
The complete design, development and initial validation will be done by VITO.
Partners
Afdeling Kust (Belgium)
AGIV (Belgium)
Illustration
Classified image of the Zwin area produced by the AutoKart application
