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Classification of multi-temporal spectral indices for crop type mapping: a case study in Coalville, UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2018

Y. Palchowdhuri*
Affiliation:
Remote Sensing Lab, Cyient Europe Ltd, Reading RG2 0TD, UK
R. Valcarce-Diñeiro
Affiliation:
Remote Sensing Lab, Cyient Europe Ltd, Reading RG2 0TD, UK
P. King
Affiliation:
Remote Sensing Lab, Cyient Europe Ltd, Reading RG2 0TD, UK
M. Sanabria-Soto
Affiliation:
Remote Sensing Lab, Cyient Europe Ltd, Reading RG2 0TD, UK
*
Author for correspondence: Y. Palchowdhuri, E-mail: yajnaseni.palchoudhuri@gmail.com

Abstract

Remote sensing (RS) offers an efficient and reliable means to map features on Earth. Crop type mapping using RS at various temporal and spatial resolutions plays an important role spanning from environmental to economical. The main objective of the current study was to evaluate the significance of optical data in a multi-temporal crop type classification-based on very high spatial resolution and high spatial resolution imagery. With this aim, three images from WorldView-3 and Sentinel-2 were acquired over Coalville (UK) between April and July 2016. Three vegetation indices (VIs); the normalized difference vegetation index, the green normalized difference vegetation index and soil adjusted vegetation index were generated using red, green and near-infrared spectral bands; then a supervised classification was performed using ground reference data collected from field surveys, Random forest (RF) and decision tree (DT) classification algorithms. Accuracy assessment was undertaken by comparing the classified output with the reference data. An overall accuracy of 91% and κ coefficient of 0·90 were estimated using the combination of RF and DT classification algorithms. Therefore, it can be concluded that integrating very high- and high-resolution imagery with different VIs can be implemented effectively to produce large-scale crop maps even with a limited temporal-dataset.

Type
Crops and Soils Research Paper
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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