Question: 1 3 . The normalized difference vegetation index ( NDVI ) is commonly used to classify land cover using remote sensing data. Hypothetically, say that

13. The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is commonly used to classify land cover using remote sensing data. Hypothetically, say that NDVI follows a Beta(25,10) distribution for pixels in a rain forest, and a Beta(10,15) distribution for pixels in a deforested area now used for agriculture. Assuming about 10% of the rain forest has been deforested, your objective is to build a rule to classify individual pixels as deforested based on their NDVI.
(a) Plot the PDF of NDVI for forested and deforested pixels, and the marginal distribution of NDVI averaging over categories.
(b) Give an expression for the probability that a pixel is deforested given its NDVI value, and plot this probability by NDVI.
(c) You will classify a pixel as deforested if you are at least 90% sure it is deforested. Following this rule, give the range of NDVI that will lead to a pixel being classified as deforested.

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