Automatic detection of dominant crop types in Poland based on satellite images

• Autorzy: Pluto-Kossakowska Joanna , Pilarska Magdalena , Bartkowiak Paulina

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.2478/arsa-2020-0013

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The assumption of the European Union Common Agricultural Policy is to maintain good agricultural practices for sustainability in the environment. A number of requirements are imposed on farmers, including the maintenance of permanent grassland, fallow land or crop diversification. To meet these requirements, the European Union guarantees subsidies, but at the same time fields must be monitored focusing on crop identification. The limitation of field inspection and substituting it with crop recognition using satellite images could increase the effectiveness of this procedure. The application of satellite imagery in automatic detection and identification of dominant crops over a large area seems to be technically and economically sound. The paper discusses the concept and the results of automatic classification based on a Random Forests classifier performed on multitemporal images of Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8. A test site was established in a complex agricultural structure with long and narrow parcels in the south-eastern part of Poland. Time-series images acquired during the growing season 2016 were used for multispectral classification in different configurations: for Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 separately and for both sensors integrated. Different Random Forests approaches and post-processing methods were examined based on independent data from farmers’ declarations records, reaching the best accuracy of over 90% for crops like winter or spring cereals. Overall accuracy of the classification ranged from 72% to 91% depending on the classification variant. The elaborated scheme is novel in the context of Polish complex agricultural structure and smallholders.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

crop identification; multitemporal classification; Random Forests; Sentinel-2; Landsat 8; greening practices

• Wydawca: Centrum Badań Kosmicznych PAN ; De Gruyter
• Czasopismo: Artificial Satellites : Journal of Planetary Geodesy
• Rocznik: 2020
• Tom: Vol. 55, No. 4
• Strony: 185--208
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 43 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Pluto-Kossakowska Joanna

• Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw, Poland

autor

Pilarska Magdalena

• Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Geodesy and Cartography, Warsaw, Poland

autor

Bartkowiak Paulina

• Institute for Earth Observation, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa Nr 461252 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2021).