Forest Complexity in the Green Tonality of Satellite Images

Abstract

Forest complexity is associated with biodiversity and tells us information about the ecosystem health. A healthy forest must be in a scale-invariant state of balance between robustness and adaptability, reflected in the tonalities present on its vegetation. Remote imaging can be used to determine forest complexity based on the scale-invariance of green tones in the images. Here is proposed a simple technique to monitor changes on the forest using statistical moments and spectral analysis of the green tones on the satellite images.