Rich, On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> 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. -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 [email protected] Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.
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