Track: Agriculture
Seeing the (Olive) Trees from the Wood-Using GIS in Europe for Olive Tree Identification
Stephen PeedellDr. SIMON KAY , Dr. Giovanna Giardino
Within Europe there are an estimated 450 million olive trees. Under European Economic Community regulations, each country in Europe must maintain a register of these trees. The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission has developed a methodology and software for automatic identification of olive trees from scanned aerial photography. This is integrated with ArcView GIS to provide a potential solution to the problem of identifying so many trees in a short time frame. The results of this work are distributed freely to all interested parties.
Stephen Peedell
Joint Research Centre
TP 440, SPACE APPLICATIONS INSTITUTE
ISPRA (VA), LOMARDIA I-21020
ITALY
Telephone: 00 39 332 786153
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E-mail: stephen.peedell@jrc.it