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Vachellia tortilis, on the other hand, is the dominant indigenous tree species in Baringo and is an important natural resource, mostly preferred for wood, fodder and charcoal production. High utilization due to anthropogenic pressure is affecting the Vachellia populations, whereas the well adapted Prosopis\u2014competing for nutrients and water\u2014has the potential to replace the native Vachellia vegetation. It is vital that both species are mapped in detail to inform stakeholders and for designing management strategies for controlling the Prosopis invasion. For the Baringo area, few remote sensing studies have been carried out. We propose a detailed and robust object-based Random Forest (RF) classification on high spatial resolution Sentinel-2 (ten meter) and Pl\u00e9iades (two meter) data to detect Prosopis and Vachellia spp. for Marigat sub-county, Baringo, Kenya. In situ reference data were collected to train a RF classifier. Classification results were validated by comparing the outputs to independent reference data of test sites from the \u201cWoody Weeds\u201d project and the Out-Of-Bag (OOB) confusion matrix generated in RF. Our results indicate that both datasets are suitable for object-based Prosopis and Vachellia classification. Higher accuracies were obtained by using the higher spatial resolution Pl\u00e9iades data (OOB accuracy 0.83 and independent reference accuracy 0.87\u20130.91) compared to the Sentinel-2 data (OOB accuracy 0.79 and independent reference accuracy 0.80\u20130.96). We conclude that it is possible to separate Prosopis and Vachellia with good accuracy using the Random Forest classifier. Given the cost of Pl\u00e9iades, the free of charge Sentinel-2 data provide a viable alternative as the increased spectral resolution compensates for the lack of spatial resolution. With global revisit times of five days from next year onwards, Sentinel-2 based classifications can probably be further improved by using temporal information in addition to the spectral signatures.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9010074","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,16]],"date-time":"2017-01-16T09:44:02Z","timestamp":1484559842000},"page":"74","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":102,"title":["Assessing the Potential of Sentinel-2 and Pl\u00e9iades Data for the Detection of Prosopis and Vachellia spp. in Kenya"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Wai-Tim","family":"Ng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Surveying, Remote Sensing and Land Information, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Peter Jordan Str. 82, A-1190 Vienna, Austria"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Purity","family":"Rima","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), Baringo Sub Centre, P.O. 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