Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 7, Issue 10, Pages 12859-12886Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs71012859
Keywords
agriculture; summer crops; Landsat 8 OLI; COSMO-SkyMed; rule-based classification; Random Forest; Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI); Red Green Ratio Index (RGRI); Normalized Difference Flood Index (NDFI); multi-temporal
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- AQ CNR-Regione Lombardia [18091/RCC]
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The work focuses on developing a classification tree approach for in-season crop mapping during early summer, by integrating optical (Landsat 8 OLI) and X-band SAR (COSMO-SkyMed) data acquired over a test site in Northern Italy. The approach is based on a classification tree scheme fed with a set of synoptic seasonal features (minimum, maximum and average, computed over the multi-temporal datasets) derived from vegetation and soil condition proxies for optical (three spectral indices) and X-band SAR (backscatter) data. Best performing input features were selected based on crop type separability and preliminary classification tests. The final outputs are crop maps identifying seven crop types, delivered during the early growing season (mid-July). Validation was carried out for two seasons (2013 and 2014), achieving overall accuracy greater than 86%. Results highlighted the contribution of the X-band backscatter (sigma degrees) in improving mapping accuracy and promoting the transferability of the algorithm over a different year, when compared to using only optical features.
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