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

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.

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luana Portz ◽  
Laurindo Antonio Guasselli ◽  
Iran Carlos Stalliviere Corrêa

Neste estudo foram analisadas as variações espaciais e temporais do Índice de Vegetação por Diferença Normalizada (NDVI) na lagoa do Peixe, no litoral do Rio Grande do Sul. Para alcançar o objetivo proposto foram utilizadas imagens de satélite Landsat TM5, entre os anos de 1986 e 2009, seguindo os procedimentos de elaboração de mosaico das cenas, verificação de campo, geração das imagens de NDVI, análise de dados de precipitação acumulada, geração dos mapas finais e análise qualitativa dos resultados obtidos. Os resultados obtidos com a geração de imagens de NDVI mostraram que a análise espaço-temporal associada aos dados de precipitação fornecem informações de valiosa importância sobre a dinâmica da lagoa do Peixe. A importância  do NDVI neste estudo se destaca pelo contraste existente entre água e vegetação, realçando os diferentes níveis de água sobre os bancos vegetados presentes na borda oeste da lagoa. Estes bancos são um importante controlador da dinâmica de circulação lagunar, onde em períodos de seca ocorre a compartimentação da lagoa, enquanto que em épocas de grande precipitação e acumulação de água estes bancos ficam submersos. Palavras-chave: Landsat TM, série temporal, Parque Nacional.  Spatial and Temporal Variation of NDVI in the Peixe Lagoon, RS  ABSTRACTThis paper analyzed the spatial and temporal variation of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in the Peixe lagoon. To reach the purpose,  the NDVI time-series were collected from the study area between year 1986 and 2009 derived from Landsat TM5 satellite. The adopted methodology may be subdivided into the following steps: mosaic of scenes, fild verification, generation of NDVI time-series and qualitative analysis, in addition, it was complemented with rainfall analysis.  The results obtained with the NDVI time-series associated with the rainfall analysis data provide valuable information about the environmental dynamics. The importance of NDVI in this work is given by the contrast between water and vegetation, highlighting the different levels of water over vegetated banks present on the western edge of the lagoon. These banks are an important driver circulation in the lagoon, where in periods of drought occurs the partitioning of the lagoo, while in periods of high precipitation and accumulation of water they are submerged.    Keywords: Landsat TM, time-series, National Park.


2018 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Palchowdhuri ◽  
R. Valcarce-Diñeiro ◽  
P. King ◽  
M. Sanabria-Soto

AbstractRemote sensing (RS) offers an efficient and reliable means to map features on Earth. Crop type mapping using RS at various temporal and spatial resolutions plays an important role spanning from environmental to economical. The main objective of the current study was to evaluate the significance of optical data in a multi-temporal crop type classification-based on very high spatial resolution and high spatial resolution imagery. With this aim, three images from WorldView-3 and Sentinel-2 were acquired over Coalville (UK) between April and July 2016. Three vegetation indices (VIs); the normalized difference vegetation index, the green normalized difference vegetation index and soil adjusted vegetation index were generated using red, green and near-infrared spectral bands; then a supervised classification was performed using ground reference data collected from field surveys, Random forest (RF) and decision tree (DT) classification algorithms. Accuracy assessment was undertaken by comparing the classified output with the reference data. An overall accuracy of 91% and κ coefficient of 0·90 were estimated using the combination of RF and DT classification algorithms. Therefore, it can be concluded that integrating very high- and high-resolution imagery with different VIs can be implemented effectively to produce large-scale crop maps even with a limited temporal-dataset.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 2195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanka Vajsová ◽  
Dominique Fasbender ◽  
Csaba Wirnhardt ◽  
Slavko Lemajic ◽  
Wim Devos

The availability of large amounts of Sentinel-2 data has been a trigger for its increasing exploitation in various types of applications. It is, therefore, of importance to understand the limits above which these data still guarantee a meaningful outcome. This paper proposes a new method to quantify and specify restrictions of the Sentinel-2 imagery in the context of checks by monitoring, a newly introduced control approach within the European Common Agriculture Policy framework. The method consists of a comparison of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) time series constructed from data of different spatial resolution to estimate the performance and limits of the coarser one. Using similarity assessment of Sentinel-2 (10 m pixel size) and PlanetScope (3 m pixel size) NDVI time series, it was estimated that for 10% out of 867 fields less than 0.5 ha in size, Sentinel-2 data did not provide reliable evidence of the activity or state of the agriculture field over a given timeframe. Statistical analysis revealed that the number of clean or full pixels and the proportion of pixels lost after an application of a 5-m (1/2 pixel) negative buffer are the geospatial parameters of the field that have the highest influence on the ability of the Sentinel-2 data to qualify the field’s state in time. We specified the following limiting criteria: at least 8 full pixels inside a border and less than 60% of pixels lost. It was concluded that compliance with the criteria still assures a high level of extracted information reliability. Our research proved the promising potential, which was higher than anticipated, of Sentinel-2 data for the continuous state assessment of small fields. The method could be applied to other sensors and indicators.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 2497
Author(s):  
Laura Recuero ◽  
Javier Litago ◽  
Jorge E. Pinzón ◽  
Margarita Huesca ◽  
Maria C. Moyano ◽  
...  

Vegetation seasonality assessment through remote sensing data is crucial to understand ecosystem responses to climatic variations and human activities at large-scales. Whereas the study of the timing of phenological events showed significant advances, their recurrence patterns at different periodicities has not been widely study, especially at global scale. In this work, we describe vegetation oscillations by a novel quantitative approach based on the spectral analysis of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) time series. A new set of global periodicity indicators permitted to identify different seasonal patterns regarding the intra-annual cycles (the number, amplitude, and stability) and to evaluate the existence of pluri-annual cycles, even in those regions with noisy or low NDVI. Most of vegetated land surface (93.18%) showed one intra-annual cycle whereas double and triple cycles were found in 5.58% of the land surface, mainly in tropical and arid regions along with agricultural areas. In only 1.24% of the pixels, the seasonality was not statistically significant. The highest values of amplitude and stability were found at high latitudes in the northern hemisphere whereas lowest values corresponded to tropical and arid regions, with the latter showing more pluri-annual cycles. The indicator maps compiled in this work provide highly relevant and practical information to advance in assessing global vegetation dynamics in the context of global change.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Long Zhao ◽  
Pan Zhang ◽  
Xiaoyi Ma ◽  
Zhuokun Pan

A timely and accurate understanding of land cover change has great significance in management of area resources. To explore the application of a daily normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) time series in land cover classification, the present study used HJ-1 data to derive a daily NDVI time series by pretreatment. Different classifiers were then applied to classify the daily NDVI time series. Finally, the daily NDVI time series were classified based on multiclassifier combination. The results indicate that support vector machine (SVM), spectral angle mapper, and classification and regression tree classifiers can be used to classify daily NDVI time series, with SVM providing the optimal classification. The classifiers of K-means and Mahalanobis distance are not suited for classification because of their classification accuracy and mechanism, respectively. This study proposes a method of dimensionality reduction based on the statistical features of daily NDVI time series for classification. The method can be applied to land resource information extraction. In addition, an improved multiclassifier combination is proposed. The classification results indicate that the improved multiclassifier combination is superior to different single classifier combinations, particularly regarding subclassifiers with greater differences.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (23) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Mwana Said Omar ◽  
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Hajime Kawamukai

Desertification is major issue in arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) with devastating environmental and socio-economic impacts. Time series analysis was applied on 19 years’ pixel-wise monthly mean Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data. The aim of this study was to identify a time series model that can be used to predict NDVI at the pixel level in an arid region in Kenya. The Holt-Winters and Seasonal Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) models were developed and statistical analysis was carried out using both models on the study area. We performed a grid search to optimise and determine the best hyper parameters for the models. Results from the grid search identified the Holt-Winters model as an additive model and a SARIMA model with a trend autoregressive (AR) order of 1, a trend moving average (MA) order of 1 and a seasonal MA order of 2, with both models having a seasonal period of 12 months. It was concluded that the Holt-Winters model showed the best performance for 600 ✕ 600 pixels (MAE = 0.0744, RMSE = 0.096) compared to the SARIMA model.


Author(s):  
Nanik Suryo Haryani ◽  
Sayidah Sulma ◽  
Junita Monika Pasaribu

The solid form of oil heavy metal waste is  known as acid sludge. The aim of this research is to exercise the correlation between acid sludge concentration in soil and NDVI value, and further studying the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) anomaly by multi-temporal Landsat satellite images. The implemented method is NDVI.  In this research, NDVI is analyzed using the  remote sensing data  on dry season and wet season.  Between 1997 to 2012, NDVI value in dry season  is around – 0.007 (July 2001) to 0.386 (May 1997), meanwhile in wet season  NDVI value is around – 0.005 (November 2006) to 0.381 (December 1995).  The high NDVI value shows the leaf health or  thickness, where the low NDVI indicates the vegetation stress and rareness which can be concluded as the evidence of contamination. The rehabilitation has been executed in the acid sludge contaminated location, where the high value of NDVI indicates the successfull land rehabilitation effort.


GeoScape ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
Jasmina Gerts ◽  
Mukhiddin Juliev ◽  
Alim Pulatov

AbstractAs satellite data of the Earth surface seems to be of vital importance for many applications, classification of land use and land cover has been found to vary dramatically in different approaches. In this paper, modified classification algorithm of remote sensing data is presented for processing medium and high spatial resolution satellite images like Landsat and Sentinel in Tashkent province of Uzbekistan. The results of NDVI (Normalized difference vegetation index) profile analysis via Spectral Correlation Mapper classification are shown for the period 1994-2017. It is implied, that combination of optical and radar data with application of Spectral Correlation Mapper classification improve the results of classification for a specific dataset by considering such factors as overall classification accuracy and time and labor involved.


2018 ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Julien ◽  
J. A. Sobrino

<p>This paper introduces the Time Series Simulation for Benchmarking of Reconstruction Techniques (TISSBERT) dataset, intended to provide a benchmark for the validation and comparison of time series reconstruction methods. Such methods are routinely used to estimate vegetation characteristics from optical remotely sensed data, where the presence of clouds decreases the usefulness of the data. As for their validation, these methods have been compared with previously published ones, although with different approaches, which sometimes lead to contradictory results. We designed the TISSBERT dataset to be generic so that it could simulate realistic reference and cloud-contaminated time series at global scale. To that end, we estimated both cloud-free and cloud-contaminated Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) statistics for randomly selected control points and each day of the year from the Long Term Data Record Version 4 (LTDR-V4) dataset by assuming different statistical distributions. The best approach was then applied to the whole dataset, and validity of the results were estimated through the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic. The dataset elaboration is described thoroughly along with how to use it. The advantages and drawbacks of this dataset are then discussed, which emphasize the realistic simulation of the cloud-contaminated and reference time series. This dataset can be obtained from the authors upon demand. It will be used in a next paper to compare widely used NDVI time series reconstruction methods.</p>


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