Title
Crop Water Content of Winter Wheat Revealed with Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Imagery.
Abstract
This study aims to efficiently estimate the crop water content of winter wheat using high spatial and temporal resolution satellite-based imagery. Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data collected by the Sentinel-1 satellite and optical imagery from the Sentinel-2 satellite was used to create inversion models for winter wheat crop water content, respectively. In the Sentinel-1 approach, several enhanced radar indices were constructed by Sentinel-1 backscatter coefficient of imagery, and selected the one that was most sensitive to soil water content as the input parameter of a water cloud model. Finally, a water content inversion model for winter wheat crop was established. In the Sentinel-2 approach, the gray relational analysis was used for several optical vegetation indices constructed by Sentinel-2 spectral feature of imagery, and three vegetation indices were selected for multiple linear regression modeling to retrieve the wheat crop water content. 58 ground samples were utilized in modeling and verification. The water content inversion model based on Sentinel-2 optical images exhibited higher verification accuracy (R = 0.632, RMSE = 0.021 and nRMSE = 19.65%) than the inversion model based on Sentinel-1 SAR (R = 0.433, RMSE = 0.026 and nRMSE = 21.24%). This study provides a reference for estimating the water content of wheat crops using data from the Sentinel series of satellites.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19184013
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
remote sensing,Sentinel-1,Sentinel-2,winter wheat,crop water content
Radar,Vegetation,Satellite,Inversion (meteorology),Remote sensing,Electronic engineering,Engineering,Water content,Temporal resolution,Linear regression,Soil water
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
18
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dong Han100.34
Shuaibing Liu200.34
Ying Du300.34
Xinrui Xie400.34
Lingling Fan500.34
Lei Lei600.34
Zhenhong Li716547.51
Hao Yang8287.63
Gui-Jun Yang914833.61