Project information
Project aim
Heard Island's pristine and rapidly changing environment makes it a relevant and exciting location to study the regional effects of climate change. This study will use high-resolution satellite imagery to provide automated, up-to-date, and non-invasive means to map and monitor vegetation as an important indicator for environmental change. Novel techniques for image classification and change detection will be developed and applied to quantify and visualise changes in Heard Island's vegetation.
Related publications
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Texture-based classification of sub-Antarctic vegetation communities on Heard Island International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2010
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Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
This study was the first to use high-resolution IKONOS imagery to classify vegetation communities on … sub-Antarctic Heard Island. We focused on the use of texture measures, in addition to standard … multispectral information, to improve the classification of sub-Antarctic vegetation communities.