Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (한국농림기상학회지)

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Development of Plant Phenology and Snow Cover Detection Technique in Mountains using Internet Protocol Camera System

무인카메라 기반 산악지역 식물계절 및 적설 탐지 기술 개발

  • Received : 2022.12.12
  • Accepted : 2022.12.27
  • Published : 2022.12.30
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Abstract

Plant phenology including flowering, leaf unfolding, and leaf coloring in a forest is important to understand the forest ecosystem. Temperature rise due to recent climate change, however, can lead to plant phenology change as well as snowfall in winter season. Therefore, accurate monitoring of forest environment changes such as plant phenology and snow cover is essential to understand the climate change effect on forest management. These changes can monitor using a digital camera system. This paper introduces the detection methods for plant phenology and snow cover at the mountain region using an unmanned camera system that is a way to monitor the change of forest environment. In this study, the Automatic Mountain Meteorology Stations (AMOS) operated by Korea Forest Service (KFS) were selected as the testbed sites in order to systematize the plant phenology and snow cover detection in complex mountain areas. Multi-directional Internet Protocol (IP) camera system that is a kind of unmanned camera was installed at AMOS located in Seoul, Pyeongchang, Geochang, and Uljin. To detect the forest plant phenology and snow cover, the Red-Green-Blue (RGB) analysis based on the IP camera imagery was developed. The results produced by using image analysis captured from IP camera showed good performance in comparison with in-situ data. This result indicates that the utilization technique of IP camera system can capture the forest environment effectively and can be applied to various forest fields such as secure safety, forest ecosystem and disaster management, forestry, etc.

본 연구를 통해 설계된 테스트베드 지역의 식물계절 관측과 적설 탐지는 반복 이미지 학습 및 정량적 RGB 분석을 통해 정확도 높은 산림 식물계절 및 적설 관측 기반을 마련하였다. 무인카메라 기반 식물계절 및 적설 탐지 기술 개발은 복잡한 산악지형이라는 특수한 환경에서 다양한 고도의 환경 데이터를 실시간 수집하는 체계를 구축함으로써 산림환경 연구를 위한 기초 데이터를 수집하는 계기가 되었다. 첨단기술을 활용한 주요 산악지역의 식물계절 변화 탐지 연구는 산림청에서 제공하는 개화 및 개엽 예측 정보의 검증과 산림휴양쾌적지수 고도화 등에 활용 가능하며, 향후 농림위성의 NDVI 등 영상 이미지의 검⋅보정용 자료로써 활용 가치가 매우 높다. 무인카메라 활용 기술은 산림 식물계절 및 적설 탐지뿐만 아니라 산림재해 감시 및 산림관리 등 다양한 산림분야에서도 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

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Acknowledgement

본 연구는 국립산림과학원 "복잡 산악지형 특성을 고려한 고해상도 산림미기상 모의 기술 개발(FE0500-2019-01-2022)"을 통해 수행되었습니다.

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