Object-based delineation of urban tree canopy: assessing change in Oklahoma City, 2006–2013
| Autor: | Adam J. Mathews, Emily A. Ellis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Canopy
Tree canopy Ecological Modeling Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning Terrain 02 engineering and technology Vegetation Urban Studies Geography Urban tree Urbanization Spatial ecology Environmental impact assessment Cartography 021101 geological & geomatics engineering General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 73:85-94 |
| ISSN: | 0198-9715 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.08.006 |
| Popis: | With a burgeoning global population, the pressures of urbanization are increasingly prevalent. The need to quantify urban greenness remains significant due to environmental impact and its relationship with human well-being. Utilizing 1 m discrete-return airborne lidar-derived digital terrain models (DTMs) and digital surface models (DSMs), aerial imagery, and lidar-imagery fusion, this study assesses vegetation, specifically tree canopy, change within Oklahoma City between 2006 and 2013. Specifically, we (1) identify an accurate object-based image analysis (OBIA) method for the detection of urban vegetation outlines, and (2) apply that method to locate and quantify vegetation change and assess spatial patterns in Oklahoma City between 2006 and 2013. The proposed OBIA approach extracts urban vegetation coverage from aerial imagery and lidar-based models with around 89% accuracy. Regarding vegetation change, Oklahoma City lost 9.69 km2 (3.74 mi2) of tree canopy coverage, which accounted for a 2% loss in total greenness. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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