MONITORING TEMPORARY CROPS IN IPU-CE USING SAR TIME SERIES IMAGES AND MACHINE LEARNING
Abstract
In recent decades, remote sensing techniques have advanced considerably, enabling effective monitoring of land use, agricultural productivity, and the environmental impacts of agricultural expansion in the Caatinga biome. This study integrates H-αlpha decomposition products developed by Cloude-Pottier, Sigma-0 backscatter, polarization ratio, and vegetation indices derived from Sentinel-1 data cube from July 2021 to August 2022. The methodological approach enhanced the quality and heterogeneity of training samples, resulting in a more accurate and spatially distributed classified map. These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of agricultural dynamics in Ipu-CE, especially in areas with multiple crop cycles, and provide valuable insights to support sustainable agricultural monitoring and policymaking in semi-arid regions.
Keywords: Monitoring Land Use and Land Cover, SAR Data Cubes, Caatinga Biome.
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Gama, F. F., Wiederkehr, N. C., and da Conceição Bispo, P. (2022). Removal of ionosphe- ric effects from sigma naught images of the alos/palsar-2 satellite. Remote Sensing, 14(4):962.
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Hanssen, R. F. (2001). Radar interferometry: data interpretation and error analysis, volume 2. Springer Science & Business Media.
ICMBIO (2017). Plano de Manejo: Encarte 4 - Contexto Regional. http://www. icmbio.gov.br/parnaubajara/planos-de-manejo. Accessed: 26 nov. 2024.
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Kasischke, E. S., Melack, J. M., and Dobson, M. C. (1997). The use of imaging radars for ecological applications—a review. Remote sensing of environment, 59(2):141–156.
Kohonen, T. (1982). Self-organized formation of topologically correct feature maps. Biological cybernetics, 43(1):59–69.
Le Toan, T. and Floury, N. (1998). On the retrieval of forest biomass from sar data. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY-PUBLICATIONS-ESA SP, 441:213–214.
Lee, J.-S., Jurkevich, L., Dewaele, P., Wambacq, P., and Oosterlinck, A. (1994). Speckle filtering of synthetic aperture radar images: A review. Remote sensing reviews, 8(4):313–340.
Liao, H., Wdowinski, S., and Li, S. (2020). Regional-scale hydrological monitoring of wetlands with sentinel-1 insar observations: Case study of the south florida everglades. Remote Sensing of Environment, 251:112051.
Liaw, A. and Wiener, M. (2002). Classification and regression by randomforest. R News, 2(3):18–22.
López Martinez, C. (2003). Multidimensional speckle noise. Modelling and filtering re- lated to sar data. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
N. V. Chawla, K. W. Bowyer, L. O. Hall, and W. P. Kegelmeyer, “SMOTE: Synthetic minority over-sampling technique,” Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 321–357, 2002.
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Markham, C. G. (1967). Climatological aspects of drought in northeastern Brazil. University of California, Berkeley.
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Paradella, W. R., Knust, S. S. A., Dos Santos, A. R., Silva, A., Rabelo, T. N., and Oliveira, C. (2009). Influence of macroscale and microscale surface roughness on multi- beam radarsat-1 data: implications for geological mapping in the curaçá valley (Brazil). Photo interprétation (Paris), 45(2).
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Pelletier, C., Webb, G. I., and Petitjean, F. (2019). Temporal convolutional neural network for the classification of satellite image time series. Remote Sensing, 11(5):523.
Picoli, M. C. A., Câmara, G., Sanches, I., Simões, R., Carvalho, A., Maciel, A., Coutinho, A., Esquerdo, J., Antunes, J., Begotti, R. A., et al. (2018). Big earth observation time series analysis for monitoring brazilian agriculture. ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing, 145:328–339.
Rodriguez, J. M. M. and da Silva, E. V. (2002). A classificação das paisagens a partir de uma visão geossistêmica. Mercator, 1(1).
Sano, E. E., Bolfe, É . L., Parreiras, T. C., Bettiol, G. M., Vicente, L. E., Sanches, I. D. A., and Victoria, D. d. C. (2023). Estimating double cropping plantations in the brazilian cerrado through planetscope monthly mosaics. Land, 12(3):581.
Sano, E. E., Ferreira, L., Asner, G., and Steinke, E. (2007). Spatial and temporal pro- babilities of obtaining cloud-free landsat images over the brazilian tropical savanna. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28(12):2739–2752.
Santos, L. A., Ferreira, K. R., Camara, G., Picoli, M. C., & Simoes, R. E. (2021). Quality control and class noise reduction of satellite image time series. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 177:75-88.
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Tomppo, E., Antropov, O., and Praks, J. (2019). Cropland classification using sentinel-1 time series: Methodological performance and prediction uncertainty assessment. Re- mote Sensing, 11(21):2480.
Truckenbrodt, J., Freemantle, T., Williams, C., Jones, T., Small, D., Dubois, C., Thiel, C., Rossi, C., Syriou, A., and Giuliani, G. (2019). Towards sentinel-1 sar analysis-ready data: A best practices assessment on preparing backscatter data for the cube. Data, 4(3):93.
Ulaby, F. T., Moore, R. K., and Fung, A. K. (1982). Microwave remote sensing: Active and passive. volume 2-radar remote sensing and surface scattering and emission theory.
Von Bertalanffy, L. (1975). Teoria geral dos sistemas. Vozes Petrópolis.
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DE FREITAS, Ana Larissa Ribeiro; GAMA, Fabio Furlan; SOUZA, Felipe Carvalho de.
MONITORING TEMPORARY CROPS IN IPU-CE USING SAR TIME SERIES IMAGES AND MACHINE LEARNING.
Mercator, Fortaleza, v. 24, may 2025.
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