Title
Selecting Appropriate Spatial Scale for Mapping Plastic-Mulched Farmland with Satellite Remote Sensing Imagery.
Abstract
In recent years, the area of plastic-mulched farmland (PMF) has undergone rapid growth and raised remarkable environmental problems. Therefore, mapping the PMF plays a crucial role in agricultural production, environmental protection and resource management. However, appropriate data selection criteria are currently lacking. Thus, this study was carried out in two main plastic-mulching practice regions, Jizhou and Guyuan, to look for an appropriate spatial scale for mapping PMF with remote sensing. The average local variance (ALV) function was used to obtain the appropriate spatial scale for mapping PMF based on the GaoFen-1 (GF-1) satellite imagery. Afterwards, in order to validate the effectiveness of the selected method and to interpret the relationship between the appropriate spatial scale derived from the ALV and the spatial scale with the highest classification accuracy, we classified the imagery with varying spatial resolution by the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm using the spectral features, textural features and the combined spectral and textural features respectively. The results indicated that the appropriate spatial scales from the ALV lie between 8 m and 20 m for mapping the PMF both in Jizhou and Guyuan. However, there is a proportional relation: the spatial scale with the highest classification accuracy is at the 1/2 location of the appropriate spatial scale generated from the ALV in Jizhou and at the 2/3 location of the appropriate spatial scale generated from the ALV in Guyuan. Therefore, the ALV method for quantitatively selecting the appropriate spatial scale for mapping PMF with remote sensing imagery has theoretical and practical significance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3390/rs9030265
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
plastic-mulched farmland (PMF),mapping,appropriate spatial scale,GF-1 satellite imagery,local variance function,supervised classifier
Resource management,Satellite imagery,Data selection,Satellite remote sensing,Remote sensing,Support vector machine,Local variance,Geology,Image resolution,Spatial ecology
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
3
2072-4292
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hasituya120.38
Zhongxin Chen26718.05
Limin Wang3113.22
Jia Liu49215.15