Remote sensing estimation of crop planting area based on HJ time-series images
Remote sensing images with the medium spatial resolution can provide long-time series data of the same area, thus are suitable for remote sensing monitoring of major crops in large scale. Based on the analysis of the time-series spectrum character curve, crop type identification and acreage extraction can be effectively achieved. Taking Hengshui City, Hebei Province as a study area, and employing monthly NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) time-series data from 16 scenes of HJ-1A/B satellite CCD images with spatial resolution of 30 m, which were collected from October 3rd 2011 to October 24th, 2012, spectrum curve characteristics of the major crop types (winter wheat, summer corn, spring corn, cotton, peanut and soybean) in the whole growth period are extracted. With consideration of high similarity of the NDVI time series among the two crops, i.e. soybean and peanut, they are grouped into the same category to conduct the classification, which is named as minor crop. The NDVI spectrum curve analysis shows that, all other types show a unimodal shape, except for winter wheat/summer corn rotation type; the peaks generally appear in September during the vigorous growth period of crops; consistent with seasonal growth pattern, the NDVI values of both spring corn and cotton during growth period are relatively high, with wider spectrum curve and slow decline; while the spectrum curve of minor crop is relatively narrow, with fast decline. In the study, five parameters, including the NDVI maximum, NDVI minimum, the number of NDVI wave peak, the date of peak and the NDVI value of the most productive period are taken as the extraction characteristics of the five crops and the identification of the five types of crops is conducted in the study area. The precision of the result is evaluated by identifying initial classification threshold, which is gradually adjusted according to the validation of field samples until it is finally confirmed. The distinctive feature for identifying winter wheat/summer corn is its 2 wave peaks. The first date of peak appears between early April and early May and the value of NDVI is above 0.5,and correspondingly, the value of NDVI is below 0.3 in the late March or the early June. The second peak appears between the late August and the middle of September and the value of NDVI is above 0.7, while the value of NDVI is below 0.4 in the early June or the middle of October. With above features, winter wheat/summer corn rotation type can be identified. The number of peak for spring corn is 1, and the peak occurs between late August and the middle of September; the value of NDVI is below 0.6 in the middle of July or the late of September and is above 0.7 in late August or the middle of September; with these features, spring corn can be identified. The number of peak for cotton is 1, and the highest value of NDVI appears between late August and the middle of September; the value of NDVI in the middle of July or late September is above or equal to 0.6 and it is below or equal to 0.5 in early June or the middle of October; according to these features, cotton can be identified. The number of peak for minor crop (soybean and peanut) is 1, and the date of peak appears between late August and the middle of September; the value of NDVI in the middle of July or late September is below 0.6, and is below 0.7 in late August or the middle of September; if having these features, it can be identified as minor crop. By using the decision-tree classification technology based on NDVI, the crop-planting area extraction is carried out. The accuracy of this investigation is verified by on-site GPS measurement of 15 normal example areas with the scale of 2 km × 2 km. The results show that the winter wheat, summer corn, spring corn, cotton and the minor crop can be effectively identified. The general accuracy is as high as 90.9%, and the accuracies for individual crop type are as follows: winter wheat 94.7%, summer corn 94.7%, spring corn 82.4%, cotton 86.9%, minor crop 81.2%, and unidentified crops 85.9%. This paper proves that mass crop’s planting area can be precisely obtained from time-series data of remote sensing images with the medium spatial resolution.
remote sensingcropsdecision- treesclassificationHJ-1A/Btime seriescrop area
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