detectree 0.3.1

Tree detection from aerial imagery

DetecTree

Overview

DetecTree is a Pythonic library to classify tree/non-tree pixels from aerial imagery, following the methods of Yang et al. [1].

import detectree as dtr
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import rasterio as rio
from rasterio import plot

# select the training tiles from the tiled aerial imagery dataset
ts = dtr.TrainingSelector(img_dir='data/tiles')
split_df = ts.train_test_split(method='cluster-I')

# train a tree/non-tree pixel classfier
clf = dtr.ClassifierTrainer().train_classifier(
    split_df=split_df, response_img_dir='data/response_tiles')
    
# use the trained classifier to predict the tree/non-tree pixels
test_filepath = split_df[~split_df['train'].sample(1).iloc[0]['img_filepath']
y_pred = dtr.Classifier().classify_img(test_filepath, clf)

# side-by-side plot of the tile and the predicted tree/non-tree pixels
figwidth, figheight = plt.rcParams['figure.figsize']
fig, axes = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(2 * figwidth, figheight))

with rio.open(img_filepath) as src:
    plot.show(src.read(), ax=axes[0])
axes[1].imshow(y_pred)

See the API documentation and the example repository to get started.

Installation

To install use pip:

$ pip install detectree

Acknowledgments

• With the support of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

References

1. Yang, L., Wu, X., Praun, E., & Ma, X. (2009). Tree detection from aerial imagery. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (pp. 131-137). ACM.