Machine Learning Approaches for Assessing Vegetation Phenology under Climate Change

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (6 December 2023) | Viewed by 3140

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Key Laboratory of Water Sediment Sciences, College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Interests: UAV remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning; phenology extraction; yield prediction; data fusion
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Department of Earth and Space Sciences, South University of Science and Technology of China, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: GNSS data processing and application
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Dear Colleagues,

We are in the era of climate change, and global warming and irregular precipitation have profoundly influenced vegetation phenology and crop growth, subsequently affecting the carbon balance. Identifying to what extent vegetation phenology has changed and responded to the ongoing climate change will help to understand the inner influencing mechanisms and to provide effective adaptive measures. Therefore, it is essential to explore the changes in vegetation phenology under climate change at multiple scales. With the development of remote sensing technology, the monitoring of vegetation phenology has been significantly improved. In particular, high-resolution satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have provided convenience for the Earth observation of vegetation changes in phenology.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to present new research advances on the applications of remote sensing techniques, such as multi/hyperspectral satellites and UAVs, for monitoring the changes in vegetation phenology under the changing climate. Contributions focusing on new methods and applications in vegetation phenology extraction; the assessment of climate change impacts on vegetation phenology, in particular, new approaches and novel contributions using machine learning; and deep learning methods, specifically studies based on multispectral and hyperspectral from multiple platforms, are welcome. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following:

  • Vegetation phenology extraction using multi- and hyperspectral images;
  • Mapping vegetation phenology;
  • Vegetation growth monitoring;
  • Time-series analysis monitoring of agriculture and forest;
  • High-throughput phenomics;
  • Machine learning and deep learning.

Dr. Yahui Guo
Dr. Shunqiang Hu
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Keywords

  • vegetation phenology
  • machine learning and deep learning
  • high-throughput phenomics
  • climate change
  • data fusion
  • radiometric calibration
  • time-series analysis

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Intelligent Analysis Cloud Platform for Soil Moisture-Nutrients-Salinity Content Based on Quantitative Remote Sensing
by Teng Zhang, Yong Zhang, Ao Wang, Ruilin Wang, Hongyan Chen and Peng Liu
Atmosphere 2023, 14(1), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14010023 - 23 Dec 2022
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Quickly obtaining accurate soil quality information is the premise for accurate agricultural production and increased crop yield. With the development of the digital information industry, smart agriculture has become a new trend in agricultural development and there is increasing demand for efficiently and [...] Read more.
Quickly obtaining accurate soil quality information is the premise for accurate agricultural production and increased crop yield. With the development of the digital information industry, smart agriculture has become a new trend in agricultural development and there is increasing demand for efficiently and intelligently acquiring good soil quality information. Scientists worldwide have developed many remote sensing quantitative inversion models, which need to be systematized and intelligent for agricultural personnel to enjoy the dividends of information technology such as 3S (remote sensing, geographic information system, and global navigation satellite system) techniques. Accordingly, to meet the need of farmers, agricultural managers, and agricultural researchers to acquire timely information on regional soil quality, in this paper, we designed a cloud platform for inversion analysis of moisture, nutrient, salinity, and other important soil quality indicators. The platform was developed using ArcGIS (The software is produced by the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. of America in Redlands, CL, USA) and GeoScene (The software is produced by GeoScene Information Technology Co.,Ltd., Beijing, China) software, with Java and JavaScript as programing languages and SQL Server as the database management system with a PC client, a web client, and a mobile app. On the basis of the existing quantitative remote sensing models, the platform realizes mapping functions, intelligent inversion of soil moisture–nutrient–salinity (SMNS) content, data analysis mining, soil knowledge base, platform management, and so on. It can help different users acquire, manage, and analyze data and make decisions based on the data. In addition, the platform can customize model parameters according to regional characteristics, improving analysis accuracy and expanding the application area. Overall, the platform employs 3S techniques, Internet technology, and mobile communication technology synthetically and realizes intelligent inversion and decision analysis of significant soil quality information, such as moisture–nutrient–salinity content. This platform has been applied to the analysis of soil indicators in several areas and has produced good operational results and benefits. This study will enable rapid data analysis and provide technical support for regional agriculture production, contributing to the development of smart agriculture. Full article
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