Sentinel-2 Recognition of Uncovered and Plastic Covered Agricultural Soil

Medium resolution satellite data, such as Sentinel-2 of the Copernicus programme, offer great new opportunities for agricultural sector, and provide insights on soil surface characteristics their management. Soil monitoring requires a high-quality dataset uncovered plastic covered soil. We developed methodology to identify pixels in parcels during seedbed preparation considered impacts clouds shadows, vegetation cover, artificial covers, those greenhouses mulch films. preserved spatial temporal integrity process analysed spectral anomalies sources. The approach is based freely available tools, namely Google Earth Engine R Programming packages. tested northern region Belgium, which characterised by small, fragmented parcels. selected period between mid-April end-May, when active management practices leave bare main cropping season. angle mapper was used non-plastic or temporary effect underlying covers considered. retrogressive greenhouse index detecting greenhouses. result high quality potential that allows further characterisation. This offered an improved understanding use distribution, corresponding crops period. Artificial occurred most frequently maize resulted precision values exceeding 0.9 detection sensitivity value 0.95