The invention belongs to the technical field of digitized fine grass cultivation and
forest industry by combining vegetational
community coverage calculation method and
digital imaging as well as
computer technology, which is suitable for the
grassland vegetation having the height being less than 1 m and the coverage within the range of 5-99 percent; the height of
forest cover is more than 5 m, and the shade density is more than 0.5; by combining the advanced
digital imaging and
computer image processing technology, a color distinguishing
decision tree with three primary colors which are red, green and blue is constructed by utilizing the classification means of the
decision tree from top to bottom, and taking digital photo
software shot in the field as input item according to the color attribute difference of the grass and forest vegetations, and functional modules of digital photo
software leading-in, ground object distinguishing, coverage calculating, divided result displaying and contrasting and the like are integrated on a
Matlab7.0 platform to set up a
visual interface and visual figures which are
user interface friendly as well as convenient and fast in human-computer interaction, then the numerical value is calculated. The method can treat the conventional picture formats such as jpg, tif, tiff and bmp in batch to obtain the
coverage data of grass and forest vegetations and has the observation accuracy reaching over 95 percent, and can be applied to the related fields such as
vegetation dynamic monitoring, resources surveys, global changing
vegetation monitoring, etc.