VegCover: A green coverage measure software for vegetation restoration monitoring

摘要

Mine land reclamation and ecological restoration promote sustainability of mineral regions from financial and environmental point of view.Lack of post-restoration monitoring and research limited improvement in the theory and practice of acceptance criteria.Digital Image Analysis (DIA) is a cost-effective ground-based remote sensing technique developed for green coverage measure in many application fields,such as precision agriculture,turfgrass management,and natural environment survey like rangeland.However,most DIA methods need human intervention (semi-automatic) to cope with various images acquired under different conditions (illumination,height,ground composition),using different cameras (resolution,focal length,and etc.) with different settings (shutter speed,aperture,ISO,and etc.).This paper introduces a newly developed full-automatic green coverage measurement software VegCover for mine land vegetation restoration monitoring.