Evaluation of forest vegetation based on time series of remote sensing data

Příloha k disertační práci: Abstrakt v AJ (Mgr. Josef Laštovička) Abstract This dissertation thesis deals with the study of forest ecosystems in the central Europe with the time series of multispectral optical satellite data. These forest ecosystems have been influenced by biotic and abiotic disturbances for the last decade. The time series of the satellite data with high spatial resolution allow the detection and analysis of forest disturbances. This thesis is mainly focused primally on free available Landsat and Sentinel-2 data, these two data types were compared. From methods, the difference time series analyses / algorithms were used. The whole thesis can be divided into two main parts. The first one analyses usability of classifiers for detection of forest ecosystems with per-pixel and sub-pixel methods. Specifically, the Neural Network, the Support Vector Machine and the Maximum Likelihood per-pixel classifiers were used and compared for different types of data (for data with high spatial resolution - Landsat or Sentinel-2; very high spatial resolution - WorldView-2) and for classification of protected forest areas. The Support Vector Machine were selected as the most suitable method for forest classifications (with most accurate outputs) from the list of selected per-pixel classifiers. Also, Spectral..