Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING
Volume 38, Issue 20, Pages 5546-5568Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1325530
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- Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Government Related Initiatives Program (GRIP Project: Towards an Earth Observation-based Canadian Agricultural Monitoring Framework)
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High mapping accuracies occur where crops differ spectrally (e. g. > 90.0%; canola, corn, soybeans) and vice versa (e. g. < 75.0%; cereals and pasture). Developing improved mapping methods has been an ongoing priority of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) remote-sensing science. To this end, this study tests a data-driven object-based classification method using Discriminant Analysis (DA) method for mapping cereals and pasture from satellite data. In this approach, variables (number > 400) derived from the image segmentation and object-based feature extraction of multi-date and multi-band optical (RapidEye) and microwave (RADARSAT-2) imagery were applied in a data-driven approach. We use in situ and satellite information collected over two study sites with different levels of heterogeneity (Winnipeg, Brandon) situated in the Canadian Prairies during the 2013 growing season to assess: (a) the type of DA model that most accurately classifies the cereals and pasture cover classes; and (b) how the classification accuracies obtained by the application of this DA model compare to those obtained from more traditional Maximum Likelihood (ML), Decision Tree (DT), and Random Forest (RF) classifications. We found that our DA-based approach was able to map cereals and pastures at our two study sites with the highest accuracies, but these accuracies did not improve significantly with the use of more complex DA model (including priori classification probabilities, more input principle components (PCs), the use of weights proportional to field area). Our results are encouraging for the wider application of the data-driven preprocessing of the inputs to the image classification by DA.
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