scholarly journals Estimating crop area using seasonal time series of Enhanced Vegetation Index from MODIS satellite imagery

2007 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 316 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. Potgieter ◽  
A. Apan ◽  
P. Dunn ◽  
G. Hammer
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Correct Classification ◽  
Pixel Classification ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Enhanced Vegetation Index ◽  
Multi Temporal ◽  
Crop Area ◽  
Pixel Scale

Cereal grain is one of the main export commodities of Australian agriculture. Over the past decade, crop yield forecasts for wheat and sorghum have shown appreciable utility for industry planning at shire, state, and national scales. There is now an increasing drive from industry for more accurate and cost-effective crop production forecasts. In order to generate production estimates, accurate crop area estimates are needed by the end of the cropping season. Multivariate methods for analysing remotely sensed Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) from 16-day Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite imagery within the cropping period (i.e. April–November) were investigated to estimate crop area for wheat, barley, chickpea, and total winter cropped area for a case study region in NE Australia. Each pixel classification method was trained on ground truth data collected from the study region. Three approaches to pixel classification were examined: (i) cluster analysis of trajectories of EVI values from consecutive multi-date imagery during the crop growth period; (ii) harmonic analysis of the time series (HANTS) of the EVI values; and (iii) principal component analysis (PCA) of the time series of EVI values. Images classified using these three approaches were compared with each other, and with a classification based on the single MODIS image taken at peak EVI. Imagery for the 2003 and 2004 seasons was used to assess the ability of the methods to determine wheat, barley, chickpea, and total cropped area estimates. The accuracy at pixel scale was determined by the percent correct classification metric by contrasting all pixel scale samples with independent pixel observations. At a shire level, aggregated total crop area estimates were compared with surveyed estimates. All multi-temporal methods showed significant overall capability to estimate total winter crop area. There was high accuracy at pixel scale (>98% correct classification) for identifying overall winter cropping. However, discrimination among crops was less accurate. Although the use of single-date EVI data produced high accuracy for estimates of wheat area at shire scale, the result contradicted the poor pixel-scale accuracy associated with this approach, due to fortuitous compensating errors. Further studies are needed to extrapolate the multi-temporal approaches to other geographical areas and to improve the lead time for deriving cropped-area estimates before harvest.

scholarly journals Early-season crop mapping using improved artificial immune network (IAIN) and Sentinel data

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e5431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengyu Hao ◽  
Huajun Tang ◽  
Zhongxin Chen ◽  
Zhengjia Liu
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Winter Wheat ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Immune Network ◽  
Artificial Immune ◽  
Study Region ◽  
Early Season ◽  
Spring Maize ◽  
Artificial Immune Network ◽  
Sentinel 2

Substantial efforts have been made to identify crop types by region, but few studies have been able to classify crops in early season, particularly in regions with heterogeneous cropping patterns. This is because image time series with both high spatial and temporal resolution contain a number of irregular time series, which cannot be identified by most existing classifiers. In this study, we firstly proposed an improved artificial immune network (IAIN), and tried to identify major crops in Hengshui, China at early season using IAIN classifier and short image time series. A time series of 15-day composited images was generated from 10 m spatial resolution Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data. Near-infrared (NIR) band and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) were selected as optimal bands by pair-wise Jeffries–Matusita distances and Gini importance scores calculated from the random forest algorithm. When using IAIN to identify irregular time series, overall accuracy of winter wheat and summer crops were 99% and 98.55%, respectively. We then used the IAIN classifier and NIR and NDVI time series to identify major crops in the study region. Results showed that winter wheat could be identified 20 days before harvest, as both the producer’s accuracy (PA) and user’s accuracy (UA) values were higher than 95% when an April 1–May 15 time series was used. The PA and UA of cotton and spring maize were higher than 95% with image time series longer than April 1–August 15. As spring maize and cotton mature in late August and September–October, respectively, these two crops can be accurately mapped 4–6 weeks before harvest. In addition, summer maize could be accurately identified after August 15, more than one month before harvest. This study shows the potential of IAIN classifier for dealing with irregular time series and Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 image time series at early-season crop type mapping, which is useful for crop management.

scholarly journals Estimation of different data compositions for early-season crop type classification

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e4834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pengyu Hao ◽  
Mingquan Wu ◽  
Zheng Niu ◽  
Li Wang ◽  
Yulin Zhan
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Classification Performance ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Production Forecasting ◽  
Crop Type ◽  
Ndvi Time Series ◽  
Multi Temporal

Timely and accurate crop type distribution maps are an important inputs for crop yield estimation and production forecasting as multi-temporal images can observe phenological differences among crops. Therefore, time series remote sensing data are essential for crop type mapping, and image composition has commonly been used to improve the quality of the image time series. However, the optimal composition period is unclear as long composition periods (such as compositions lasting half a year) are less informative and short composition periods lead to information redundancy and missing pixels. In this study, we initially acquired daily 30 m Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time series by fusing MODIS, Landsat, Gaofen and Huanjing (HJ) NDVI, and then composited the NDVI time series using four strategies (daily, 8-day, 16-day, and 32-day). We used Random Forest to identify crop types and evaluated the classification performances of the NDVI time series generated from four composition strategies in two studies regions from Xinjiang, China. Results indicated that crop classification performance improved as crop separabilities and classification accuracies increased, and classification uncertainties dropped in the green-up stage of the crops. When using daily NDVI time series, overall accuracies saturated at 113-day and 116-day in Bole and Luntai, and the saturated overall accuracies (OAs) were 86.13% and 91.89%, respectively. Cotton could be identified 40∼60 days and 35∼45 days earlier than the harvest in Bole and Luntai when using daily, 8-day and 16-day composition NDVI time series since both producer’s accuracies (PAs) and user’s accuracies (UAs) were higher than 85%. Among the four compositions, the daily NDVI time series generated the highest classification accuracies. Although the 8-day, 16-day and 32-day compositions had similar saturated overall accuracies (around 85% in Bole and 83% in Luntai), the 8-day and 16-day compositions achieved these accuracies around 155-day in Bole and 133-day in Luntai, which were earlier than the 32-day composition (170-day in both Bole and Luntai). Therefore, when the daily NDVI time series cannot be acquired, the 16-day composition is recommended in this study.

scholarly journals Time Series Analysis of MODIS-Derived NDVI for the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, South Africa: Impact of Recent Intense Drought

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nkanyiso Mbatha ◽  
Sifiso Xulu
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
Kendall Test ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Maximum Temperature ◽  
Sudden Increase ◽  
Area Index ◽  
Enhanced Vegetation Index ◽  
Temperature And Precipitation

The variability of meteorological parameters such as temperature and precipitation, and climatic conditions such as intense droughts, are known to impact vegetation health over southern Africa. Thus, understanding large-scale ocean–atmospheric phenomena like the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean Dipole/Dipole Mode Index (DMI) is important as these factors drive the variability of temperature and precipitation. In this study, 16 years (2002–2017) of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Terra/Aqua 16-day normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), extracted and processed using JavaScript code editor in the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform in order to analyze the response pattern of the oldest proclaimed nature reserve in Africa, the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park (HiP), during the study period. The MODIS-enhanced vegetation index and burned area index were also analyzed for this period. The area-averaged Modern Retrospective Analysis for Research Application (MERRA) model maximum temperature and precipitation were also extracted using the JavaScript code editor in the GEE platform. This procedure demonstrated a strong reversal of both the NDVI and Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), leading to signs of a sudden increase of burned areas (strong BAI) during the strongest El Niño period. Both the Theilsen method and the Mann–Kendall test showed no significant greening or browning trends over the whole time series, although the annual Mann–Kendall test, in 2003 and 2014–2015, indicated significant browning trends due to the most recent strongest El Niño. Moreover, a multi-linear regression model seems to indicate a significant influence of both ENSO activity and precipitation. Our results indicate that the recent 2014–2016 drought altered the vegetation condition in the HiP. We conclude that it is vital to exploit freely available GEE resources to develop drought monitoring vegetation systems, and to integrate climate information for analyzing its influence on protected areas, especially in data-poor counties.

scholarly journals Mapping Maize Cultivated Area Combining MODIS EVI Time Series and the Spatial Variations of Phenology over Huanghuaihai Plain

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueting Wang ◽  
Sha Zhang ◽  
Lili Feng ◽  
Jiahua Zhang ◽  
Fan Deng
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Vegetation Indices ◽  
Regression Equations ◽  
Summer Maize ◽  
Temporal Shift ◽  
Modis Evi ◽  
Multi Temporal ◽  
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

Crop phenology is a significant factor that affects the precision of crop area extraction by using the multi-temporal vegetation indices (VIs) approach. Considering the phenological differences of maize among the different regions, the summer maize cultivated area was estimated by using enhanced vegetation index (EVI) time series images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) over the Huanghuaihai Plain in China. By analyzing the temporal shift in summer maize calendars, linear regression equations for simulating the summer maize phenology were obtained. The simulated maize phenology was used to correct the MODIS EVI time series curve of summer maize. Combining the mean absolute distance (MAD) and p-tile algorithm, the cultivated areas of summer maize were distinguished over the Hunaghuaihai Plain. The accuracy of the extraction results in each province was above 85%. Comparing the maize area of two groups from MODIS-estimated and statistical data, the validation results showed that the R2 reached 0.81 at the city level and 0.69 at the county level. It demonstrated that the approach in this study has the ability to effectively map the summer maize area over a large scale and provides a novel idea for estimating the planting area of other crops.

scholarly journals PHENOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF COFFEE CROP (Coffea arabica L.) FROM MODIS TIME SERIES

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antônio Felipe Couto Júnior ◽  
Osmar Abílio de Carvalho Júnior ◽  
Éder De Souza Martins ◽  
Antônio Fernando Guerra
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Coffea Arabica ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ◽  
Median Filter ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Arabica Coffee ◽  
Enhanced Vegetation Index ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Coffea Arabica L

ABSTRACT. Arabica Coffee (Coffea arabica L.) demonstrates a two-year phenological cycle, this knowledge is important for crop forecast in Brazil. This work aimed to describe the coffee crop phenology from MODIS vegetation index time series. The study area is located in the western Bahia State, Brazil, due to its remarkable agribusiness development. MODIS time series data comprehended 10-year Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI). However, these times series are usually contaminated by noise caused by atmospheric variations that are harmful to the surface discrimination. Median filter and the Minimum Noise Fraction (MNF) were used together to smooth the original dataset. NDVI and EVI temporal profiles showed differences of amplitude and gradient. The results evidenced the Arabica Coffee phenological stages, as described in previous fieldworks. These results showed potential application for large-area land cover monitoring.Keywords: vegetation index, remote sensing, digital image processing. RESUMO. O Café Arábica (Coffea arabica L.) apresenta um ciclo fenológico de dois anos, sendo relevante o seu conhecimento para a previsão de safras no Brasil. O objetivo deste trabalho foi caracterizar a fenologia da cultura de café a partir de séries temporais de índices de vegetação do sensor MODIS. A área de estudo está localizada no oeste do estado da Bahia, Brasil, devido ao seu notável desenvolvimento do agronegócio. As séries temporais MODIS compreendem10 anos do Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) e Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI). Contudo, essas séries temporais apresentam ruídos ocasionados por efeitos atmosféricos queprejudicam a discriminação dos alvos da superfície. O filtro de mediana e a transformação Fração Mínima de Ruído (FMR) foram usados em conjunto para suavizar os dados originais. Os perfis temporais NDVI e EVI apresentam diferenças de amplitude e gradiente. Os resultados evidenciaram os estágios fenológico do Café Arábica, como descritos em prévios trabalhos de campo. Esses resultados possuem potencial de aplicação para o monitoramento do uso da terra em extensas áreas.Palavras-chave: índices de vegetação, sensoriamento remoto, processamento digital de imagem.

Time Series Multispectral Images Processing for Crops and Forest Mapping

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-106
Author(s):  
Loubna El Mansouri ◽  
Said Lahssini ◽  
Rachid Hadria ◽  
Nadia Eddaif ◽  
Tarik Benabdelouahab ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Forest Mapping ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
First Case ◽  
Supervised Classifiers ◽  
Multi Temporal ◽  
Crop Mapping ◽  
Images Processing

This chapter highlights time series image processing for accurate agriculture characterization through two Moroccan experiences. The first case aims at crop mapping. A new classification approach based on multiple classifiers combination (MCC) was developed and applied to multi-temporal enhanced vegetation index (EVI) bands. The whole process is performed in three stages: (1) Landsat data preparation and multi-temporal staked EVI image extraction, (2) MCC construction from six advanced and supervised classifiers, and (3) stacked EVI image classification using the build-up MCC. Some post-classification contextual rules were also added in order to optimize the crops classification and the final parcel shape. In the second case, a post-classification change detection process was implemented to detect changes in forest area. Many classification schemes with different vegetation and texture indices were investigated. The two experiences are cost-effective, reproducible, and transferable. Consequently, they can regularly be used to produce up-to-date land use maps.

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