Title :
Comparison of crop classification capabilities of spaceborne multi-parameter SAR data
Author :
Tian, Xin ; Chen, Erxue ; Li, Zengyuan ; Su, Z. Bob ; Ling, Feilong ; Bai, Lina ; Wang, Fengyu
Author_Institution :
Chinese Acad. of Forestry, Beijing, China
Abstract :
With the arisen spaceborne multi-parameter Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems, such as Envisat ASAR, TerraSAR-X, ALOS PALSAR, and RADARSAT-2, the interest of crop mapping has been increasing. The present study compares the capabilities of the multi-parameter SAR in discriminating the main crop types by object-based classification in Haian county of Jiangsu province, South China. Two kinds of information, SAR intensity based and SAR statistical properties based are used for Maximum Likelihood Classification (MLC) and Minimum Distance Classification (MDC) respectively. The results show that, the L-band SAR can uniquely identify mulberry from dry-land crops, such as maize and vegetable and C-band SAR has some advantages in mapping rice. Specifically, the polarimetric RADARASAT-2 data can identify the rice with accuracy about 75% ~ 80% which is similar as the result from X-band TerraSAR-X Spotlight data but higher than that from C-band dual-polarization Envisat ASAR data. Nevertheless, both of X- and C-band can hardly separate the mulberry from the other dry-land crops.
Keywords :
agriculture; crops; geophysical signal processing; maximum likelihood estimation; remote sensing by radar; signal classification; synthetic aperture radar; vegetation mapping; ALOS PALSAR; C-band SAR; Envisat ASAR; Haian county; Jiangsu province; L-band SAR; RADARSAT-2; SAR intensity; SAR statistical properties; TerraSAR-X; crop classification capabilities; crop mapping; dry land crops; main crop types; maize; maximum likelihood classification; minimum distance classification; mulberry; object based classification; rice; south China; spaceborne multiparameter SAR data; synthetic aperture radar; vegetable; Accuracy; Agriculture; Backscatter; Covariance matrix; L-band; Matrix converters; Spaceborne radar; SAR; covariance matrix; crop classification; object based method; statistical properties;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9565-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5651326