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IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages 4443-4450Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2020.3013663
Keywords
Satellites; Hyperspectral sensors; Spatial resolution; Fires; Sensors; Feature extraction; Extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost); gamba grass; high resolution; machine learning; remote sensing; weed; WorldView-3
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- Northern Territory Government, Parks, Wildlife, and Heritage Division
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An introduced pasture grass (Andropogon gayanus - gamba grass) is spreading through the tropical savannas of northern Australia, with detrimental ecosystem consequences including increased fire intensity. In order to monitor and manage the spread of gamba grass, a scalable solution for mapping its distribution over large areas is required. Recent developments in machine learning have proven useful for distinguishing vegetation types in satellite imagery in an automated manner. In this study, we collected field data for supervised learning of very high-resolution (0.3 m) WorldView-3 satellite imagery and tuned the hyperparameters of an extreme gradient boosting classifier to produce a viable solution for detecting the probability of gamba grass presence. To evaluate the performance of WorldView-3 imagery in discriminating gamba grass, we tested the utility of predictors derived from: 1) spectral bands; 2) textural features; 3) spectral indices; and 4) all predictors combined. Our results suggest that gamba grass presence can be mapped from space with an accuracy of up to 91% under optimal environmental conditions.
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