Arid Zone Research ›› 2019, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (3): 771-780.doi: 10.13866/j.azr.2019.03.29

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Information Extraction of Desert Surface Types Based on UAV Image

PENG Jia-yi1,2, WANG Xin-jun1,2, ZHU Lei1,2, ZHAO Chen-yi3, XU Xiao-long1,2   

  1. 1. College of Grassland and Environmental Sciences,Xinjiang Agricultural University,Urumqi 830052,Xinjiang,China;
    2. Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Soil and Plant Ecological Processes,Urumqi 830052,Xinjiang,China;
    3. Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Urumqi 830011,Xinjiang,China
  • Received:2018-07-16 Revised:2019-01-15 Published:2025-10-18

Abstract: Based on the images of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV),in this study the surface type information of the Gurbantunggut Desert was extracted,and the object-oriented multi-scale segmentation was used to extract the information of the sample plots of surface types from the spectrum,shape,texture and vegetation index.The results showed that:① The best segmentation scale for the different desert surface types was different;② The features of surface types with different desertification levels were similar and could not be distinguished by single characteristics;③ Compared with the pixel-based maximum likelihood method,the object-oriented multi-scale segmentation method was improved significantly.The overall classification accuracies of the object-oriented slightly,moderately and seriously desertified areas were 93.00%,91.83% and 93.50% respectively,and they were 10.34%,11.86% and 12.50% higher than those of the pixel-based maximum likelihood method.The results revealed that the object-oriented multi-scale segmentation method could be used to extract the desert surface type information with high accuracy for the UAV visible image.

Key words: UAV image, desert, land surface type, information extraction, the Gurbantonggut desert