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Two stages segmentation for Leaf Area Index estimation using digital cover photography

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • بيانات النشر:
      Instituto Internacional de Ecologia, 2024.
    • الموضوع:
      2024
    • Collection:
      LCC:Science
      LCC:Biology (General)
      LCC:Zoology
      LCC:Botany
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Abstract Leaf Area Index (LAI) is the ratio of ground surface area covered by leaves. LAI plays a significant role in the structural characteristics of forest ecosystems. Therefore, an accurate estimation process is needed. One method for estimating LAI is using Digital Cover Photography. However, most applications for processing LAI using digital photos do not consider the brown color of plant parts. Previous research, which includes brown color as part of the calculation, potentially produced biased results by the increased pixel count from the original photo. This study aims to enhance the accuracy of LAI estimation. The proposed methods consider the brown color while minimizing errors. Image processing is carried out in two stages to separate leaves and non-leaf pixels by using the RGB color model for the first stage and applying the CIELAB color model in the second stage. Proposed methods and existing applications are evaluated against the actual LAI value obtained using Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) as the ground truth. The results demonstrate that the proposed methods effectively identify non-leaf parts and exhibit the lowest error rates compared to other methods. In conclusion, this study provides alternative techniques to enhance the accuracy of LAI estimation in forest ecosystems.
    • File Description:
      electronic resource
    • ISSN:
      1678-4375
      1519-6984
    • Relation:
      http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842024000101173&lng=en&tlng=en; http://www.scielo.br/pdf/bjb/v84/1519-6984-bjb-84-e279855.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/1678-4375
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.1590/1519-6984.279855
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsdoj.40977c3522954210b621a19c7f6a11c2