Classification of tree species based on hyperspectral reflectance images of stem bark
No Thumbnail Available
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
This publication is imported from Aalto University research portal.
View publication in the Research portal
Other link related to publication
View publication in the Research portal
Other link related to publication
Date
2022-12-28
Major/Subject
Mcode
Degree programme
Language
en
Pages
15
Series
European Journal of Remote Sensing
Abstract
Automatization of tree species identification in the field is crucial in improving forest-based bioeconomy, supporting forest management, and facilitating in situ data collection for remote sensing applications. However, tree species recognition has never been addressed with hyperspectral reflectance images of stem bark before. We investigated how stem bark texture differs between tree species using a hyperspectral camera set-up and gray level co-occurrence matrices and assessed the potential of using reflectance spectra and texture features of stem bark to identify tree species. The analyses were based on 200 hyperspectral reflectance data cubes (415–925 nm) representing ten tree species. There were subtle interspecific differences in bark texture. Using average spectral features in linear discriminant analysis classifier resulted in classification accuracy of 92–96.5%. Using spectral and texture features together resulted in accuracy of 93–97.5%. With a convolutional neural network, we obtained an accuracy of 94%. Our study showed that the spectral features of stem bark were robust for classifying tree species, but importantly, bark texture is beneficial when combined with spectral data. Our results suggest that in situ imaging spectroscopy is a promising sensor technology for developing accurate tree species identification applications to support remote sensing.Description
| openaire: EC/H2020/771049/EU//FREEDLES Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Keywords
forestry, Hyperspectral, reflectance image, stem bark, texture, tree species
Citation
Juola , J , Hovi , A & Rautiainen , M 2022 , ' Classification of tree species based on hyperspectral reflectance images of stem bark ' , European Journal of Remote Sensing . https://doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2022.2161420
