Analysis of Sentinel- 2 Satellite Images to Estimate Leaf Area Index of Corn Crops

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1 Space Research Institute, Iranian Space Research Center

2 Assistant Prof. of R.S. & GIS Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University

3 Prof. of R.S. & GIS Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University

4 Ph.D. Student of R.S. & GIS Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University

Abstract

Leaf area index (LAI) derived from remotely sensed images is considered as an important index for spatial modelling of vegetation productivity. Traditionally, the spectral vegetation indices (VIs) derived from the red (R) and near infrared (NIR) reflectance values have been utilized to statistically estimate LAI. However, most of these VIs saturate at some level of LAI. This limitation was over-come by using the reflectance spectra in the red-edge region. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the capability of different VIs derived from RS data to estimate the LAI of silage maize.  For this purpose, five field sampling campaigns which were near-simultaneous with Sentinel II over-passes were conducted by the Space Research Center, Iranian Space Research Center and totally 234 samples were collected from the silage maize fields, in Magsal, Qazvin.  Then, 13 VIs from the time series of Sentinel-2 imagery were computed and employed to statistically estimate the LAI values. The results showed that Enhanced vegetation index (EVI) with  outperformed other VIs to estimate LAI of silage maize. Moreover, the  values of non-linear regression models were higher that the liner ones.

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