Title
LEM benchmark database for tropical agricultural remote sensing application
Date Issued
20 September 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Sanches I.D.
Feitosa R.Q.
Montibeller B.
Luiz A.J.B.
Soares M.D.
Prudente V.H.R.
Vieira D.C.
Maurano L.E.P.
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
Publisher(s)
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Abstract
The monitoring of agricultural activities at a regular basis is crucial to assure that the food production meets the world population demands, which is increasing yearly. Such information can be derived from remote sensing data. In spite of topic's relevance, not enough efforts have been invested to exploit modern pattern recognition and machine learning methods for agricultural land-cover mapping from multi-temporal, multi-sensor earth observation data. Furthermore, only a small proportion of the works published on this topic relates to tropical/subtropical regions, where crop dynamics is more complicated and difficult to model than in temperate regions. A major hindrance has been the lack of accurate public databases for the comparison of different classification methods. In this context, the aim of the present paper is to share a multi-temporal and multi-sensor benchmark database that can be used by the remote sensing community for agricultural land-cover mapping. Information about crops in situ was collected in Luís Eduardo Magalhães (LEM) municipality, which is an important Brazilian agricultural area, to create field reference data including information about first and second crop harvests. Moreover, a series of remote sensing images was acquired and pre-processed, from both active and passive orbital sensors (Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2/MSI, Landsat-8/OLI), correspondent to the LEM area, along the development of the main annual crops. In this paper, we describe the LEM database (crop field boundaries, land use reference data and pre-processed images) and present the results of an experiment conducted using the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data.
Start page
387
End page
392
Volume
42
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias agrícolas
Sensores remotos
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85056209453
Source
International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives
ISSN of the container
16821750
Conference
2018 ISPRS Technical Commission I Midterm Symposium on Innovative Sensing - From Sensors to Methods and Applications
Sponsor(s)
The authors gratefully acknowledge the ISPRS for financial support (Scientific Initiatives 2017). We further acknowledge the support from CNPq and CAPES. The authors are especially grateful to Adriano Vecchiatti Lupinacci and Ricardo Kyoshi Atarassi for providing information about LEM´s agricultural practices and crop calendar.
Sources of information:
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