- Page 1 and 2: Automated Aerial Image Analysis usi
- Page 3 and 4: Contents ii Page Certificate of Aut
- Page 5 and 6: List of Figures iv Page Figure 1: A
- Page 7 and 8: Abstract This study sets out an alg
- Page 9 and 10: The process was designed so that it
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- Page 15 and 16: 1.2 General Introduction and Backgr
- Page 17 and 18: the higher the chances of successfu
- Page 19 and 20: overlaid aerial imagery. This is du
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- Page 23 and 24: a selected study area. This is poss
- Page 25 and 26: 2 Stepping through the Algorithm Th
- Page 27 and 28: The process can also be coded into
- Page 29 and 30: Aerial imagery is a form of databas
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- Page 39 and 40: 2.4 Confirmation The final stage of
- Page 41 and 42: 3 Sampling for the Baseline Image K
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- Page 47 and 48: Road test sample 2 Mean pixel value
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- Page 57 and 58: Marsh Sample 1 Mean Pixel Value Sta
- Page 59 and 60: Marsh test Sample 1 (Pasture) Mean
- Page 61 and 62: form both pasture and road/ paving
- Page 63 and 64: Forest Sample 1 Mean pixel value St
- Page 65 and 66: Coniferous forestry test sample 1 (
- Page 67 and 68: whole was not analyzed but individu
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- Page 73 and 74: 3.6 Track Figure 9: Typical Track A
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- Page 77 and 78: (Phynn et al, 2002). In this study
- Page 79 and 80: 3.7 Shade Figure 10: Typical Shade
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From the above samples, samples 4 a
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For the track/ hard cover the diffe
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3.10 Rough Pasture Figure 16: Typic
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The identification of rough pasture
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cycle being suggested here to prese
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4 Testing This chapter describes a
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Figure 17: Creating the ASCII file
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Figure 20: Green colour band for pa
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Figure 23: Green colour band for pa
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The peak for the green colour band,
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Figure 30: Green colour band for pa
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Figure 31: Vector data for rough pa
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Figure 34: Green colour band for ro
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Figure 37: Green colour band for ro
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The peak for the green colour band,
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Figure 44: Green colour band for ro
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The first sample area came from a p
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Figure 47: Red colour band for mars
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Figure 50: Aerial view of marsh tes
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from which any variance would flag
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Figure 55: Red colour band for mars
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Figure 57: Aerial view of marsh tes
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4.4 Bog Test The sampling for areas
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Figure 62: Red colour band for bog
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Figure 65: Vector data for bog test
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The histogram for the green colour
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Figure 70: Aerial view for bog test
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This trend was continued for the bl
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The green colour band pixel count a
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4.5 Conclusion Image segmentation i
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5 Literature Review The goal of thi
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shown give a more detailed picture
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dependencies” (Kettling, P.330).
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identifying coffee plantations from
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apply an algorithm to colour the da
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In 2002 S. Phinn, M. Stanford, P. S
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with the authors work for a softwar
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ased analysis, solely spectral base
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16*16 pixels as urban or nonurban.
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as roads and car parks are so simil
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H. van der Werff and F. van der Mee
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Shen, S. S., Badhwar, G. D., and Ca