Title
Monitoring Changes in Rice Cultivated Area from SAR and Optical Satellite Images in Ben Tre and Tra Vinh Provinces in Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Abstract
The objective of this study was to obtain up-to-date information on land use and to identify long term changes in land use, especially rice, aquaculture and other crops in Ben Tre and Tra Vinh provinces in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Long-term changes in land-use of the study area have not been studied using long time series of SAR and optical Earth observation (EO) data before. EO data from 1979-2012 was used: ENVISAT ASAR Wide Swath Mode, SPOT and Landsat imagery. An unsupervised ISODATA classification was performed on multitemporal SAR images. The results were validated using ground truth data. Using the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery maps for 2005, 2009 and 2011 were obtained. Different rice crops, aquaculture and fruit trees could be distinguished with an overall accuracy of 80%. Using available optical imagery the time series was extended from 2005 to 1979. Long-term decrease in the rice acreage and increase in the aquaculture acreage could be detected.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3390/rs6054090
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
land-use change,Mekong Delta,Envisat ASAR WSM,Landsat,SPOT,multitemporal SAR,ground truth data,rice,aquaculture
Delta,Satellite,Synthetic aperture radar,Remote sensing,Land use, land-use change and forestry,Ground truth,Earth observation,Multispectral pattern recognition,Geology,Land use
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
5
2072-4292
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.42
7
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kirsi Karila1333.68
o nevalainen270.89
Anssi Krooks311512.42
Mika Karjalainen4499.88
Sanna Kaasalainen524931.76