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DOI | 10.3390/rs16081365 |
Evaluating a Novel Approach to Detect the Vertical Structure of Insect Damage in Trees Using Multispectral and Three-Dimensional Data from Drone Imagery in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA | |
Shrestha, Abhinav; Hicke, Jeffrey A.; Meddens, Arjan J. H.; Karl, Jason W.; Stahl, Amanda T. | |
发表日期 | 2024 |
EISSN | 2072-4292 |
起始页码 | 16 |
结束页码 | 8 |
卷号 | 16期号:8 |
英文摘要 | Remote sensing is a well-established tool for detecting forest disturbances. The increased availability of uncrewed aerial systems (drones) and advances in computer algorithms have prompted numerous studies of forest insects using drones. To date, most studies have used height information from three-dimensional (3D) point clouds to segment individual trees and two-dimensional multispectral images to identify tree damage. Here, we describe a novel approach to classifying the multispectral reflectances assigned to the 3D point cloud into damaged and healthy classes, retaining the height information for the assessment of the vertical distribution of damage within a tree. Drone images were acquired in a 27-ha study area in the Northern Rocky Mountains that experienced recent damage from insects and then processed to produce a point cloud. Using the multispectral data assigned to the points on the point cloud (based on depth maps from individual multispectral images), a random forest (RF) classification model was developed, which had an overall accuracy (OA) of 98.6%, and when applied across the study area, it classified 77.0% of the points with probabilities greater than 75.0%. Based on the classified points and segmented trees, we developed and evaluated algorithms to separate healthy from damaged trees. For damaged trees, we identified the damage severity of each tree based on the percentages of red and gray points and identified top-kill based on the length of continuous damage from the treetop. Healthy and damaged trees were separated with a high accuracy (OA: 93.5%). The remaining damaged trees were separated into different damage severities with moderate accuracy (OA: 70.1%), consistent with the accuracies reported in similar studies. A subsequent algorithm identified top-kill on damaged trees with a high accuracy (OA: 91.8%). The damage severity algorithm classified most trees in the study area as healthy (78.3%), and most of the damaged trees in the study area exhibited some amount of top-kill (78.9%). Aggregating tree-level damage metrics to 30 m grid cells revealed several hot spots of damage and severe top-kill across the study area, illustrating the potential of this methodology to integrate with data products from space-based remote sensing platforms such as Landsat. Our results demonstrate the utility of drone-collected data for monitoring the vertical structure of tree damage from forest insects and diseases. |
英文关键词 | drone remote sensing; structure-from-motion; point cloud; forest health monitoring; top-kill |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geology ; Remote Sensing ; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary ; Remote Sensing ; Imaging Science & Photographic Technology |
WOS记录号 | WOS:001210717400001 |
来源期刊 | REMOTE SENSING
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/306248 |
作者单位 | Idaho; University of Idaho; Washington State University; Idaho; University of Idaho |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shrestha, Abhinav,Hicke, Jeffrey A.,Meddens, Arjan J. H.,et al. Evaluating a Novel Approach to Detect the Vertical Structure of Insect Damage in Trees Using Multispectral and Three-Dimensional Data from Drone Imagery in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA[J],2024,16(8). |
APA | Shrestha, Abhinav,Hicke, Jeffrey A.,Meddens, Arjan J. H.,Karl, Jason W.,&Stahl, Amanda T..(2024).Evaluating a Novel Approach to Detect the Vertical Structure of Insect Damage in Trees Using Multispectral and Three-Dimensional Data from Drone Imagery in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA.REMOTE SENSING,16(8). |
MLA | Shrestha, Abhinav,et al."Evaluating a Novel Approach to Detect the Vertical Structure of Insect Damage in Trees Using Multispectral and Three-Dimensional Data from Drone Imagery in the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA".REMOTE SENSING 16.8(2024). |
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