Title
Estimating Crop LAI Using Spectral Feature Extraction and the Hybrid Inversion Method.
Abstract
The leaf area index (LAI) is an essential indicator used in crop growth monitoring. In the study, a hybrid inversion method, which combined a physical model with a statistical method, was proposed to estimate the crop LAI. The simulated compact high-resolution imaging spectrometer (CHRIS) canopy spectral crop reflectance datasets were generated using the PROSAIL model (the coupling of PROSPECT leaf optical properties model and Scattering by Arbitrarily Inclined Leaves model) and the CHRIS band response function. Partial least squares (PLS) was then used to reduce the dimension of the simulated spectral data. Using the principal components (PCs) of PLS as the model inputs, the hybrid inversion models were built using various modeling algorithms, including the backpropagation artificial neural network (BP-ANN), least squares support vector regression (LS-SVR), and random forest regression (RFR). Finally, remote sensing mapping of the CHRIS data was achieved with the hybrid model to test the inversion accuracy of LAI estimates. The validation result yielded an accuracy of R-2 = 0.939 and normalized root-mean-square error (NRMSE) = 6.474% for the PLS_RFR model, which indicated that the crops LAI could be estimated accurately by using spectral feature extraction and a hybrid inversion strategy. The results showed that the model based on principal components extracted by PLS had a good estimation accuracy and noise immunity and was the preferred method for LAI estimation. Furthermore, the comparative analysis results of various datasets showed that prior knowledge could improve the precision of the retrieved LAI, and using this information to constrain parameters (e.g., chlorophyll content or LAI), which make important contributions to the spectra, is the key to this improvement. In addition, among the PLS, BP-ANN, LS-SVR, and RFR methods, RFR was the optimal modeling algorithm in the paper, as indicated by the high R-2 and low NRMSE in various datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/rs12213534
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
hyperspectral remote sensing,leaf area index (LAI),inversion,PROSAIL,partial least squares (PLS),random forest regression (RFR) scattering by arbitrarily inclined leaves
Journal
12
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
21
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liang Liang100.34
Di Geng200.68
Juan Yan300.68
Siyi Qiu400.68
Liping Di581198.92
Shuguo Wang617024.86
Lu Xu700.34
Lijuan Wang872.85
Jianrong Kang900.68
Li Li107624.03