Title
FIRST RESULTS of the LEM BENCHMARK DATABASE for AGRICULTURAL APPLICATIONS
Date Issued
06 August 2020
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.
Happ P.N.
Chamorro J.
Oldoni L.V.
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Publisher(s)
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
Abstract
Applying remote sensing technology to map and monitor agriculture and its impacts can greatly contribute for the proper development of this activity, promoting efficient food, fiber and energy production. For that, not only remote sensing images are needed, but also ground truth information, which is a key factor for the development and improvement of methodologies using remote sensing data. While a variety of images are current available, inclusive cost-free images, field reference data is scarcer. For agricultural applications, especially in tropical regions such as Brazil, where the agriculture is very dynamic and diverse (recent agricultural frontiers, crop rotations, multiple cropping systems, several management practices, etc.), and cultivated over a vast territory, this task is not trivial. One way of boosting the researches in agricultural remote sensing is to stimulate people to share their data, and to foster different groups to use the same dataset, so distinct methods can be properly compared. In this context, our group created the LEM Benchmark Database (a project funded by the ISPRS Scientific Initiative project-2017) from the Luiz Eduardo Magalhães (LEM) municipality, Bahia State, Brazil. The database contains a set of pre-processed multitemporal satellite images (Landsat-8/OLI, Sentinel-2/MSI and SAR band-C Sentinel-1) and shapefiles of agricultural fields with their correspondent monthly land use classes, covering the period of one Brazilian crop year (2017-2018). In this paper we present the first results obtained with this database.
Start page
251
End page
256
Volume
43
Issue
B5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Agricultura
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85091966811
Resource of which it is part
International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives
ISSN of the container
16821750
Conference
2020 24th ISPRS Congress - Technical Commission V (TC-V) on Education and Outreach - Youth Forum
Sponsor(s)
The project “Benchmark database for tropical agricultural remote sensing application” funded by the ISPRS Scientific Initiatives 2017, enabled the building of the LEM database. Hopefully, in the future, we will have a set of benchmark databases like this one available, so it will be possible to advance the development and testing of methodologies across different sites and epochs and improve agricultural remote sensing.
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