New publication: Mapping oak dieback severity using Worldview-2 data

New publication: Mapping oak dieback severity using Worldview-2 data

m

Conservation | Forestry | PhD thesis | publication

September 22, 2017

A new paper published by Iranian Journal of Forest and Poplar Research presents novel results on comparative analysis of multiple approaches for mapping Persian Oak (Quercus brantii) dieback across a portion of Zagros forests of Iran. The research features Hooman Latifi from University of Würzburg  and uses very-high-resolution optical data from Worldview-2 together with design-based inventory of oak dieback. The results revealed that the artificial neural network comparatively better performed than other classification methods with its overall accuracy of 72.83%. Moreover, our results confirmed that the Worldview-2 satellite data can illustrate the severity of oak decline as well as its spatial extension.

An English summary of the work can be retrieved here.

Karami, O., Fallah, A., Shataee, S., Latifi, H. 2017. Investigation on the feasibility of mapping of oak forest dieback severity using Worldview-2 satellite data (Case study: Ilam forests). Iranian Journal of Forest and Poplar Research 25(3), 452-462. DOI: 10.22092/ijfpr.2017.112879

you may also like:

New publication on global scaling of urban air quality

New publication on global scaling of urban air quality

Researchers from the Earth Observation Center (EOC) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffenhofen and our Earth Observation Research Cluster of the University of Würzburg teamed up for a study on global scaling of urban air quality. The paper titled "Global...

New Team Member at the EORC: Sonja Mass

New Team Member at the EORC: Sonja Mass

Sonja Maas joined the Earth Observation Research Cluster (EORC) in October 2025 as a research assistant for the EO4CAM project. After finishing her bachelor's degree in forestry, Sonja Maas enrolled in the EAGLE M.Sc. program at the University of Würzburg, where she...

Field Excursion to Owabi Wildlife Sanctuary

Field Excursion to Owabi Wildlife Sanctuary

As a highlight of the third day of our training at KNUST on the use of remote sensing for biodiversity conservation, we took our participants on a field excursion to the nearby Owabi Wildlife Sanctuary. Guided by experienced local experts, we explored the area and had...