The application of decision binary trees to assess the usefulness of the digital terrain model in studying the relationships between relief and vegetation in the Polish High Tatra

• Authors: Karol Kącki

Abstracts

EN

The relationships between individual components of the natural environment have long been an object of research (Kostrowicki, Wójcik, 1972; Rączkowska, Kozłowska, 1994; Kozłowska, Rączkowska, 1996). This paper is an attempt to analyse the relationships between two geocomponents of the natural environment: relief and vegetation, from a perspective contrary to the one currently prevailing in the literature of the subject. This approach assumes that relief, with its dominant role as a component strongly affecting the formation of the remaining factors, can be indicative in character and as such can represent basie factors that help determine and anticipate the occurrences of certain plant communities as well as locations with no vegetation. Using geoinformation data along with the tools to process them, an attempt was made to assess the usefulness of the DTM (Digital Terrain Model) to identify selected plant communities, rock and water. The development of a model of the relationships between the relief and the vegetation is an attempt to capture the correspondence between the parameters characterising the relief, calcułated using the DTM model and classes of objects, with the use of information obtained from an Ikonos XS image. This model was subseąuently used to draw a map o f the land cover for a part of the Gąsienicowa Valley in the High Tatra (Dolina Gąsienicowa). For the purpose of this exercise, a techniąue of data classification called DBT (Decision Binary Trees) was used.

Keywords

EN

relief - vegetation relationship; Decision Binary Trees (DBT); Digital Terrain Model (DTM); Ikonos XS; image classification; geoinformation

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 12
• Pages: 305-313

Dates

published

2006

Contributors

author

Karol Kącki

• Chair of Geoinformatic and Remote Sensing

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Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2030343