SURVEY OF WILD ANIMALS IN THE SNOW IN AIRBORNE REMOTE SENSING IMAGES USING COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION OF THE MOVING WILD ANIMALS ALGORITHM

摘要

The coexistence of wild animals with people needs proper conservation. And conservation of wild animals needs adaptive management. And population size estimation of wild animals is essential to understand the results by adopting measures. However, there is not enough the population size information of large-sized mammals. Therefore, it is required to develop a new index of the population size variation that could be applied with wide area and used with other indexes. Besides, it is expected to increase the ecological knowledge through the wild animal monitoring using remote sensing. In this situation, we developed algorithm to detect automatically moving wild animals in the snow in airborne remote sensing images with 60percent image overlap. And we survey wild animals using this algorithm.