Identifying the vegetation type in Google Earth images using a convolutional neural network: a case study for Japanese bamboo forests

Abstract Background Classifying and mapping vegetation are crucial tasks in environmental science and natural resource management. However, these tasks are difficult because conventional methods such as field surveys are highly labor-intensive. Identification of target objects from visual data using...

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Main Authors: Shuntaro Watanabe, Kazuaki Sumi, Takeshi Ise
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-11-01
Series:BMC Ecology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12898-020-00331-5