Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Daily Detection Tool Using Artificial Neural Networks and Satellite Images

Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Daily Detection Tool Using Artificial Neural Networks and Satellite Images

The main purpose of this work was the development of a tool to detect daily deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, using satellite images from the MODIS/TERRA [1] sensor and Artificial Neural Networks. The developed tool provides the parameterization of the configuration for the neural network training to enable us to find the best neural architecture to address the problem. The tool makes use...

Utilizing satellite images and artificial neural networks in estimation of vegetation fraction in arid regions

Road detection from high-resolution satellite images using artificial neural networks

In this article, the possibility of using artificial neural networks for road detection from high resolution satellite images is tested on a part of RGB Ikonos and Quick-Bird images from Kish Island and Bushehr Harbour respectively. Then, the effects of different input parameters on network’s ability are verified to find out optimum input vector for this problem. A variety of network structures...

Modelling deforestation using GIS and artificial neural networks

This study aims to predict the spatial distribution of tropical deforestation. Landsat images dated 1974, 1986 and 1991 were classified in order to generate digital deforestation maps which locate deforestation and forest persistence areas. The deforestation maps were overlaid with various spatial variables such as the proximity to roads and to settlements, forest fragmentation, elevation, slop...

Estimating and modeling monthly mean daily global solar radiation on horizontal surfaces using artificial neural networks

In this study, an artificial neural network based model for prediction of solar energy potential in Kerman province in Iran has been developed. Meteorological data of 12 cities for period of 17 years (1997–2013) and solar radiation for five cities around and inside Kerman province from the Iranian Meteorological Office data center were used for the training and testing the network. Meteorologic...