COMPARISON OF PIXEL AND REGION-BASED APPROACHES FOR TREE SPECIES MAPPING IN ATLANTIC FOREST USING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES ACQUIRED BY UAV

. The objective of this work was the comparison of two different classification approaches to detect four different tree species of a highly diverse tropical Atlantic Forest area. In order to achieve the objective, images were acquired with the Rikola hyperspectral camera onboard the UX4 UAV. The study area is in the Western part of São Paulo State, a tropical Atlantic Forest area protected by governmental laws, which contains areas already...