Predicting chlorophyll-ausing Landsat 8 OLI sensor data and the non-linear RANSAC method – a case study of Nakdong River, South Korea

Winter wheat is one of the major cereal crops in China. The spatial distribution of winter wheat planting areas is closely related to food security; however, mapping winter wheat with time-series finer spatial resolution satellite images across large areas is challenging. This paper explores the potential of combining temporally aggregated Landsat-8 OLI and Sentinel-2 MSI data available via the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform for mapping winter wheat in Shandong Province, China. First, six phenological median composites of Landsat-8 OLI and Sentinel-2 MSI reflectance measures were generated by a temporal aggregation technique according to the winter wheat phenological calendar, which covered seedling, tillering, over-wintering, reviving, jointing-heading and maturing phases, respectively. Then, Random Forest (RF) classifier was used to classify multi-temporal composites but also mono-temporal winter wheat development phases and mono-sensor data. The results showed that winter wheat could be classified with an overall accuracy of 93.4% and F1 measure (the harmonic mean of producer’s and user’s accuracy) of 0.97 with temporally aggregated Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 data were combined. As our results also revealed, it was always good to classify multi-temporal images compared to mono-temporal imagery (the overall accuracy dropped from 93.4% to as low as 76.4%). It was also good to classify Landsat-8 OLI and Sentinel-2 MSI imagery combined instead of classifying them individually. The analysis showed among the mono-temporal winter wheat development phases that the maturing phase’s and reviving phase’s data were more important than the data for other mono-temporal winter wheat development phases. In sum, this study confirmed the importance of using temporally aggregated Landsat-8 OLI and Sentinel-2 MSI data combined and identified key winter wheat development phases for accurate winter wheat classification. These results can be useful to benefit on freely available optical satellite data (Landsat-8 OLI and Sentinel-2 MSI) and prioritize key winter wheat development phases for accurate mapping winter wheat planting areas across China and elsewhere.

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Spatiotemporal Built-up Land Density Mapping Using Various Spectral Indices in Landsat-7 ETM+ and Landsat-8 OLI/TIRS (Case Study: Surakarta City)

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/98/1/012006 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 98 ◽

pp. 012006

Author(s):

Yanuar S Risky ◽

Yogi H Aulia ◽

Prima Widayani

Keyword(s):

Landsat 8 ◽

Spectral Indices ◽

Landsat 8 Oli ◽

Density Mapping ◽

Landsat 7

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A tool for analysis of the influence of the Earth surface soil layer temperature on the inhomogeneity of grain crops development by the Earth remote sensing data

10.25743/sdm.2021.97.30.049 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

R.V. Brezhnev ◽

Yu.A. Maglinets ◽

K.V. Raevich ◽

V.G. Margaryan

Keyword(s):

Surface Temperature ◽

Atmospheric Correction ◽

Sensor Data ◽

Relational Model ◽

Landsat 8 ◽

Earth Surface ◽

Agricultural Crops ◽

Landsat 8 Oli ◽

The Earth ◽

Vegetation Heterogeneity

The work is devoted to the analysis of the influence of the earth surface temperature on the inhomogeneity of the agricultural crops development. The aim of the work is to expand the object-relational model for describing the inhomogeneous spatial structure of a spatial object by including surface temperature as one of the key features that allow determining the cause of vegetation heterogeneity, along with relief features, differences in the soil chemical composition and other significant characteristics. Experimental studies are carried out at sites located in Sukhobuzimsky district of Krasnoyarsk Territory, for which agricultural crops (grains) and the their sowing dates are known a priori, which allows stating any facts of the vegetation development deviation from the normative trajectory with reference to the sequence and timing norms of phenological phase changing. Landsat-8 OLI (Operational Land Imager) TIRS (Thermal Infrared Sensor) data are used as initial data for temperature measurements. Objects of research are presented in the form of a polygon map in SHP format. The temperature values are calculated using the algorithm for estimating the earth temperature developed by Weng Q., Lu D. and Schubring J. The surface reflectance values are the NDVI vegetation index values also obtained from the Landsat-8 OLI data that underwent atmospheric correction by the DOS method. The research results are implemented in the form of a software module and integrated into the Earth remote monitoring (ERM) system of SFU Space and Information Technologies Institute (SITI). The results are used within the concept of object-oriented monitoring of spatial objects developed by the team of authors, and represent index images of the surface temperature of objects, as well as vector schematic maps.

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