A Novel Fusion of Optical and Radar Satellite Data for Crop Phenology Estimation using Machine Learning and Cloud Computing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00020v1
• Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 13:44:35 GMT
• Title: A Novel Fusion of Optical and Radar Satellite Data for Crop Phenology Estimation using Machine Learning and Cloud Computing
• Authors: Shahab Aldin Shojaeezadeh, Abdelrazek Elnashar, Tobias Karl David Weber,
• Abstract summary: In the era of big Earth observation data ubiquity, attempts have been made to accurately predict crop phenology based on Remote Sensing data. Here, we estimate phenological developments for eight major crops and 13 phenological stages across Germany at 30m scale using a novel framework.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Crop phenology determines crop growth stages and is valuable information for decision makers to plant and adapt agricultural management strategies to enhance food security. In the era of big Earth observation data ubiquity, attempts have been made to accurately predict crop phenology based on Remote Sensing (RS) data. However, most studies either focused on large scale interpretations of phenology or developed methods which are not adequate to help crop modeler communities on leveraging the value of RS data evaluated using more accurate and confident methods. Here, we estimate phenological developments for eight major crops and 13 phenological stages across Germany at 30m scale using a novel framework which fuses Landsat and Sentinel 2 (Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel data base; HLS) and radar of Sentinel 1 with a Machine Learning (ML) model. We proposed a thorough feature fusion analysis to find the best combinations of RS data on detecting phenological developments based on the national phenology network of Germany (German Meteorological Service; DWD) between 2017 and 2021. The nation-wide predicted crop phenology at 30 m resolution showed a very high precision of R2 > 0.9 and a very low Mean Absolute Error (MAE) < 2 (days). These results indicate that our fusing strategy of optical and radar datasets is highly performant with an accuracy highly relevant for practical applications, too. The subsequent uncertainty analysis indicated that fusing optical and radar data increases the reliability of the RS predicted crop growth stages. These improvements are expected to be useful for crop model calibrations and evaluations, facilitate informed agricultural decisions, and contribute to sustainable food production to address the increasing global food demand.

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