Applying a phenological object-based image analysis (phenobia) for agricultural land classification: A study case in the Brazilian Cerrado

  • Hugo N. Bendini*
  • , Leila M.G. Fonseca
  • , Anderson R. Soares
  • , Philippe Rufin
  • , Marcel Schwieder
  • , Marcos A. Rodrigues
  • , R.V. Maretto
  • , Thales S. Korting
  • , Pedro J. Leitao
  • , Ieda D.A. Sanches
  • , Patrick Hostert
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Mapping agriculture with high accuracy is important to generate reliable information about crop production. Pixel-based methods still present problems with noise and usually require post-processing approaches to reach satisfactory results. Object-based Image Analysis (OBIA) enable the detection of homogeneous objects in remote sensing images based on spectral similarity. However, traditional OBIA does not consider the multi-temporal characteristics of land cover or land use, such as agriculture. The objective of this study is to evaluate a phenological object-based approach with dense Landsat image time series for mapping agriculture in different level of detail in the Brazilian Cerrado. We derived pixel-wise EVI fitted time series with 8-day temporal resolution and applied multi-resolution segmentation using all image bands to incorporate the influence of space and time. Then we generated phenological metrics and applied OBIA of agricultural lands in Brazil using a hierarchical classification scheme. The overall accuracies for each hierarchical level were around 90%, and the spatial consistency of the generated maps is promising.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2020 - Proceedings
Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ
PublisherIEEE
Pages1078-1081
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-7281-6374-1, 978-1-7281-6373-4 (USB)
ISBN (Print)978-1-7281-6375-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Sept 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2020 - Virtual, Waikoloa, United States
Duration: 26 Sept 20202 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameProceedings IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
PublisherIEEE
Volume2020
ISSN (Print)2153-6996
ISSN (Electronic)2153-7003

Conference

Conference2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2020
Abbreviated titleIGARSS 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Waikoloa
Period26/09/202/10/20

Keywords

  • Big data
  • OBIA
  • Phenometrics
  • Time-series mining
  • ITC-CV
  • n/a OA procedure

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