Mapping rice areas with Sentinel-1 time series and superpixel segmentation

Rice is the single most important crop for food security in Asia. Knowledge about the distribution of rice fields is also relevant in the context of greenhouse-relevant methane emissions, disease transmission, and water resource management. Copernicus Sentinel-1 provides the first openly available a...

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Published in:International journal of remote sensing 2018-03, Vol.39 (5), p.1399-1420
Main Authors: Clauss, K., Ottinger, M., Kuenzer, C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Backscatter
Backscattering
C band
Crop fields
Data
Disease control
Disease transmission
Food security
Mapping
Methane
Methane emissions
Oryza
Radar
Resource management
Rice
Rice fields
SAR (radar)
Security
Segmentation
Spatial data
Synthetic aperture radar
Temporal resolution
Time series
Water resources
Water resources management
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Summary:Rice is the single most important crop for food security in Asia. Knowledge about the distribution of rice fields is also relevant in the context of greenhouse-relevant methane emissions, disease transmission, and water resource management. Copernicus Sentinel-1 provides the first openly available archive of C-band SAR (synthetic aperture radar) data at high spatial and temporal resolution. We developed one of the first methods that shows the potential of this data for accurate and timely mapping of rice-growing areas. We used superpixel segmentation to create spatially averaged backscatter time series, which is robust to speckle and reduces the amount of data to process. This method has been applied to six study sites in different rice-growing regions of the world and achieved an average overall accuracy of 0.83.
ISSN:0143-1161
1366-5901
DOI:10.1080/01431161.2017.1404162