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Application of k-nearest neighbor on multispectral images to estimate forest parameters; Aplicação de k-nearest neighbor em imagens multispectrais para a estimativa de parâmetros florestais
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Natural resources management requires several parameters estimate in order to support the identification of the best alternatives to forest areas management. In particular, forest ecosystems require a complex and increasing set of descriptive information, where forest inventories put up important information, however not in a continuous spatial way. Lately, several scientific researches have been focusing on establishing methodologies to relate data from field to those obtained from multispectral images. Modeling these relations can extend the estimates of forest inventory data to not sampled areas. This research evaluated performance of non-parametric analysis using the K-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) on SPOT 5 images. It evaluated the results obtained from the spatialization of some forest attributes in a forest area located at Molise, Italy. Among several methodologies for spatial distance calculations, the use of multiregressive non-parametric distances revealed the best results. Density and number of species on the ground revealed a Pearson correlation coefficient of = 0.58 as compared to data obtained from multispectral images, lightly lower than the obtained for basal area and volume, which were = 0.62 and 0.71, respectively.