Publikation
Evaluation of Aquatic Plant Detection with Remote Sensing using Onboard Camera
Eike Rodenbäck; Christoph Manss; Janina Schneider; Frederic Theodor Stahl
In: 2025 13th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP). European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP-2025), October 13-16, Valetta, Malta, IEEE Xplore, New Jersey, 12/2025.
Zusammenfassung
Satellite data is useful for many applications in environmental monitoring, such as vegetation cover and plant health determined by calculating vegetation indices. When using satellite data, the question often arises of how this data can be evaluated. This paper presents a method that can be used to evaluate aquatic plants detection on satellite data using an onboard camera and remote sensing methods. To this end, the Aquatic Plants and Algae (APA) composite index is used to compare estimates of the amount of seaweed in a lake in Northern Germany with satellite data. Sensor data from the mowing boat, on which the amount of seaweed is recorded with the respective mowing position, is used as a comparative value. It was shown that in the areas where the mowing boat harvested seaweed, the amount of seaweed identified by the APA index decreased compared to the amount identified before the mowing process. However, further data is required for quantitative and general results.