Fusion of spectral and spatial information for agricultural crop classification in multi-temporal Sentinel images (Case Study: Qorveh County)

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1 M.Sc. Student, Geodesy and Surveying Engineering, Tafresh University, Tafresh

2 Assistant Prof., Dep. of Geodesy and Surveying Engineering, Tafresh University, Tafresh

Abstract

Nowaday, there are wide applications for satellite images in agriculture monitoring and management. According to high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution of Sentinel-2 images, we used them for precise agriculture in Qorveh country. Proposed methd consist of five step: firstly, multi-temporal images are collected based on agriculture calender of crops. Then feature space is generated based on spectral reflectance and vegetation indices which consists of 70 features. According to high dimensionality of feature space, principle component analysis is applied to reduce its dimension. Four power classifiers include support vector machine, k-nearest neighbour, multi-layer perceptron and random forests classify the reduced spectral feature space. On the other hand, spatial information are extracted from multi-temporal multispectral images. For this pupose, strandard deviation (STD) maps are generated for red, NIR and SWIR bands of each epoch. Then, by averaging the STD maps, final STD map is obtained. Edge detection is performed on STD map and it improves by removing small lines, smoothing, thining, etc. Finally, crop mapping is done by fusion of four classification maps and agriculture farm boundaries. The obtained results show that classification accuracy of k-nearest neighbour, support vector machine, multi-layer perceptron and random forest classifiers are 77.78%, 79,16%, 76.41% and 76.89%, respectively. The overall accuracy of the proposed method improve up to 94.72% which proves high potential of the proposed method.

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