| Author: | Wang, Meilian |
| Title: | Identification of tree health status from multispectral high-resolution images using convolutional neural networks |
| Advisors: | Wong, Man Sing Charles (LSGI) |
| Degree: | M.Sc. |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Subject: | Aerial photography -- China -- Hong Kong Aerial photography in geology -- China -- Hong Kong Photographic interpretation Hong Kong Polytechnic University -- Dissertations |
| Department: | Faculty of Construction and Environment Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics |
| Pages: | ix, 101 pages : color illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Vegetation in cities play an important role in providing people a comfortable living environment and in urban ecosystem. Therefore, it is essential to manage urban trees and make sure their health status because diseased trees not only affect the living environment but also threat resident health. And if diseased trees cannot be found and cured in time, there may have a great impact on quality of residents' life, like bad mood and physiological illness caused by diseased trees. However, traditional manual identification is time-consuming and labor-intensive. In recent years, remote sensing has been employed to identify tree health status from high-resolution multispectral aerial imagery instead of field identification, providing an effective, economic and labor-saving approach for tree health identification. More recently, machine learning, particularly the convolutional neural network (CNN) technologies, has made such identification more reliable. This research aims to identify tree health status from high-resolution multispectral aerial images by using convolutional neural networks. And the process includes two parts: determination of individual tree canopies (crowns) and identification of tree health status through the classification of feeding delineated tree canopies by using convolutional neural networks. For the determination of individual tree canopies, three automated segmentation methods (i.e. watershed, Thiessen polygon, region growing) have been implemented and tested. It has been found that these automated segmentation methods are all unable to effectively delineate individual tree crowns. More precisely, the accuracies are lower than 50%, because most trees were clustered together in Hong Kong. Then a model-based approach has been proposed for such impossible cases. For the identification, vegetation-related indices have been divided into three categories (ratio indices, difference indices and NDVI related indices) and have been evaluated at first using two convolutional neural network models (Resnet18 and VGG19). Results showed that ratio indices have relatively better performance in the identification of tree health status. Then a more stable residual-based network integrated with ratio indices has been developed in this research. Its evaluation showed the new network can achieve acceptable accuracy of more than 80% and has better stability at the same time. |
| Rights: | All rights reserved |
| Access: | restricted access |
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