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Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2017, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 132-145

Accuracy assessment for winter crops mapping in spring-summer growing season with MODIS data

D.E. Plotnikov 1 , S.A. Bartalev 1 , E.A. Loupian 1 , V.A. Tolpin 1 
1 Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
Accepted: 26.07.2017
DOI: 10.21046/2070-7401-2017-14-4-132-145
Over the past few years IKI RAS was able to develop methods for automatic winter crops mapping with time series of remote sensing data. Fifteen-year-long time series of winter crops maps were calculated for the area of their sustainable cultivation with a spatial resolution of 250 meters. With VEGA family systems development, primarily aimed at crops remote monitoring and their state analysis, it was made possible to store and assess ground truth data for dozens of thousands of cropland parcels sown with winter crops and other crop species. The paper describes the approach for and results of validation for automatically calculated winter crops maps based on representative and spatially distributed ground truth data for dozens of regions in Russian Federation. It is shown, that region-level accuracy of winter crops maps validated against in-situ data ranges from 70 to 98%. Scatter plots show high correlation of maps-extracted and official regional statistics data. The results obtained show that these maps are suitable for winter crops state assessment at the “rayon” (sub-region) level as well as for winter crops area estimation for large agricultural regions.
Keywords: remote sensing, mapping methods, winter crops, validation
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