i am trying to calculate the area of vegetation in aerial image, i don't have the information regarding the height at which the image is taken. i have extracted vegetation in the image by using RGB values, the rest of the image i have set it to a pixel value 0(i.e black). how do i proceed from this step. please help. thank you
If by any chance, you are the same person as the question about the banana plant vegetation, then please stick to a single topic and direct the two questions to that, since they are heavily related.
Like mentioned in that topic, look at the findcontour function, by first creating a binary mask and then looking for contours. The contours then provide an area functionality.
You can get the area which will be expressed in amount of pixels. It will be impossible to get the actual area since you do not know your camera settings, like the height of your flight. This means that you can only calculate a relative area, not an absolute one.
You only need to know one dimension, for example the size of your image in real measurements. Then you can calculate how much a pixel is. This way each pixel area can be converted into real area measurements.
Asked: 2013-04-29 01:48:33 -0600
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Last updated: Apr 29 '13
