FLOODPLAIN VEGETATION STUDY

2016 - Breemwaard, the Netherlands

In combination with Utrecht University, HiView contributed to a study to record the dynamics in floodplain vegetation over a growing season. HiView provided the necessary imagery to complete the study. Field reference data on vegetation height were collected six times during one year in 28 field plots within a single floodplain along the Waal River, the main distributary of the Rhine River in the Netherlands.

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The aim of the study was to evaluate the performance of multi-temporal high-spatial-resolution imagery, collected with a UAV, to record the dynamics in floodplain vegetation height and greenness over a growing season. To measure this the focus was on seasonal variation of herbaceous and grassy vegetation with a height up to 3 m.

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These results show the high potential of using UAV-borne sensors for increasing the classification accuracy of low floodplain vegetation within the framework of floodplain monitoring.

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The full article, published in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, can be found here.