González de Audícana Amenábar, María

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  • PublicationOpen Access
    Automatic detection of uprooted orchards based on orthophoto texture analysis
    (MDPI, 2017) Ciriza Labiano, Raquel; Sola Torralba, Ion; Albizua, Lourdes; Álvarez-Mozos, Jesús; González de Audícana Amenábar, María; Proyectos e Ingeniería Rural; Landa Ingeniaritza eta Proiektuak
    Permanent crops, such as olive groves, vineyards and fruit trees, are important in European agriculture because of their spatial and economic relevance. Agricultural geographical databases (AGDBs) are commonly used by public bodies to gain knowledge of the extension covered by these crops and to manage related agricultural subsidies and inspections. However, the updating of these databases is mostly based on photointerpretation, and thus keeping this information up-to-date is very costly in terms of time and money. This paper describes a methodology for automatic detection of uprooted orchards (parcels where fruit trees have been eliminated) based on the textural classification of orthophotos with a spatial resolution of 0.25 m. The textural features used for this classification were derived from the grey level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and wavelet transform, and were selected through principal components (PCA) and separability analyses. Next, a Discriminant Analysis classification algorithm was used to detect uprooted orchards. Entropy, contrast and correlation were found to be the most informative textural features obtained from the co-occurrence matrix. The minimum and standard deviation in plane 3 were the selected features based on wavelet transform. The classification based on these features achieved a true positive rate (TPR) of over 80% and an accuracy (A) of over 88%. As a result, this methodology enabled reducing the number of fields to photointerpret by 60–85%, depending on the membership threshold value selected. The proposed approach could be easily adopted by different stakeholders and could increase significantly the efficiency of agricultural database updating tasks.
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    Analysis of fire services coverage in Spain
    (DYNA, 2018) Echeverría Iriarte, Francisco Javier; González de Audícana Amenábar, María; López Maestresalas, Ainara; Arazuri Garín, Silvia; Ciriza Labiano, Raquel; Jarén Ceballos, Carmen; Ingeniería; Ingeniaritza; Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa
    Previous analysis of the locations of fire stations in Spain and the extent of the areas they cover revealed significant deficiencies with regard to the proportion of communities who would not receive fire service intervention within a reasonable time period. This article discusses and describes the use of Geographic Information Systems and related tools to determine the areas and population covered by existing fire services within a specific response time. This response time by road, is based on a survey of fire service interventions in other European countries. The analysis compares data from a statistical study with georeferenced ones and demonstrates that the areas and communities not covered within this response time is greater than previously believed. The article then describes an analysis an alternative solution to reinforce the current fire stations network with part-time firefighters to cover the areas not covered mainly in rural and remote locations.