Sentinel-2 Recognition of Uncovered and Plastic Covered Agricultural Soil
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area and the Agricultural Parcel Dataset
2.2. Sentinel-2 Imagery
2.3. Data Pre-Processing
2.3.1. Overview
2.3.2. Filtering Parcel Geometry
2.3.3. Pre-Processing of Sentinel-2 Data
2.4. Acquisition-Date Selection per Parcel
2.5. Anomaly Detection
2.6. Large Non-Plastic Greenhouses and Temporary Soil Covers
2.7. The Plastic Greenhouse Index
2.8. Accuracy Assessment Using High Resolution Data
3. Results
3.1. Extracting Reflectance Information of Sentinel-2 for Agricultural Parcels
3.2. Temporary Covers on Various Soil Types
3.3. Detection of Covered Parcels by SAM and RPGI
3.4. Detailing the Crops That Utilise Artificial Covers
3.4.1. Accuracy Assessment of Artificial Cover Detection Using High Resolution Data
3.4.2. Excluding Miscellaneous Anomalies
3.4.3. Detection of Artificial Covers in the Time-Series
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Band | Resolution (m) | S2A | S2B | ||
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(nm) | (nm) | (nm) | (nm) | ||
B1 | 60 | 442.7 | 21 | 442.2 | 21 |
B2 | 10 | 492.4 | 66 | 492.1 | 66 |
B3 | 10 | 559.8 | 36 | 559.0 | 36 |
B4 | 10 | 664.6 | 31 | 664.9 | 31 |
B5 | 20 | 704.1 | 15 | 703.8 | 16 |
B6 | 20 | 740.5 | 15 | 739.1 | 15 |
B7 | 20 | 782.8 | 20 | 779.7 | 20 |
B8 | 10 | 832.8 | 106 | 832.9 | 106 |
B8a | 20 | 864.7 | 21 | 864.0 | 22 |
B9 | 60 | 945.1 | 20 | 943.2 | 21 |
B10 | 60 | 1373.5 | 31 | 1376.9 | 30 |
B11 | 20 | 1613.7 | 91 | 1610.4 | 94 |
B12 | 20 | 2202.4 | 175 | 2185.7 | 185 |
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Ibrahim, E.; Gobin, A. Sentinel-2 Recognition of Uncovered and Plastic Covered Agricultural Soil. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 4195. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214195
Ibrahim E, Gobin A. Sentinel-2 Recognition of Uncovered and Plastic Covered Agricultural Soil. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13(21):4195. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214195
Chicago/Turabian StyleIbrahim, Elsy, and Anne Gobin. 2021. "Sentinel-2 Recognition of Uncovered and Plastic Covered Agricultural Soil" Remote Sensing 13, no. 21: 4195. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13214195