PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEER ING & REMOTE SENS ING Novembe r 2008 1413 Abstract A comparison of land-cover maps, emphasizing row crop agriculture, resulting from independent classifications of coincident Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and Resourcesat-1 Advanced Wide Field Sensor (AWIFS) imagery is presented. Three agriculturally intensive study areas within the midsection of the United States were ...

Multispectral satellite images have been utilized in the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) for crop cover classification and crop acreage estimation since the 1970's. Though ancillary data is utilized to enhance the classification accuracy, there are few applications that maximize the utilization of the feature information of the given multispectral images. Every multispectral ima...

In this study we explored the potential of multi-temporal IRS P6 (Resourcesat) Advanced Wide Field Sensor (AWiFS) data for mapping of LULC for Delhi, India. The study presents the result of a decision tree classification of seasonal composite data (three seasons). The study has identified 13 classes with description of cropping pattern namely, double crops, kharif, rabi and zaid from 56 m spati...

Land management practices affect the long term sustainability of agricultural soils. Growing Forward, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s (AAFC) agricultural policy framework, has identified promoting environmentally responsible agriculture as one of the department’s priorities. Land management information requirements have become increasingly important to a number of programs and policies suppo...

The paper presents a hybrid fuzzy classifier for effective land use land cover mapping. It discusses a Bayesian way of incorporating spatial contextual information into the Fuzzy Noise Classifier (FNC). The FNC was chosen, as it detects noise using spectral information more efficiently than its fuzzy counterparts. The spatial information at the level of second order pixel neighbourhood was mode...

Crop acreage assessment is of particular importance in China where total crop land area is shrinking following the urbanization, directly threatening the policy of grain self-sufficiency. This study demonstrated the application potential of remote sensing to estimate large crop areas on the North China Plain (NCP). The cropping pattern in this plain comprises two growth seasons per year. The ha...

Sagebrush ecosystems in North America have experienced extensive degradation since European settlement. Further degradation continues from exotic invasive plants, altered fire frequency, intensive grazing practices, oil and gas development, and climate change – adding urgency to the need for ecosystem-wide understanding. Remote sensing is often identified as a key information source to facilita...

soil organic matter has positive consequences eht rof quality and productivityof soil and also environment, agricultural and biological sustainability and conservation ofbiodiversity and soil. organic matter plays an important role in the physical and chemicalprocesses of soil and thus, it is of a great effect on the spectral characteristics of soil. thisstudy was done in order to develop the m...

The present study investigates remote sensing based approach of large-area crop water requirement using vegetation indices as proxy indicator of crop coefficient (Kc). This study is an attempt to estimate the reasonably proper Kc for lowland rice and wheat and subsequently crop evapotranspiration (ETc) in rice-wheat system using multitemporal IRS P6-AWiFS data integrated with meteorological dat...