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Arid Land Geography ›› 2024, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (4): 672-683.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2023.262

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Remote sensing identification and assessment of crops in the Yanqi Basin, Xinjiang, China based on Sentinel-2 time series data

ZHANG Xuhui1(), Yusufujiang RUSULI1,2(), QIU Zhongli1, Yaxiaer AISIKEER1, Abudureheman WUSIMAN1   

  1. 1. Watershed Information Integration and Ecological Security Laboratory, College of Geographic Science and Tourism, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi 830054, Xinjiang, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Lake Environment and Resources in the Arid Zone of Xinjiang, Urumqi 830054, Xinjiang, China
  • Received:2023-06-06 Revised:2023-07-24 Online:2024-04-25 Published:2024-05-17
  • Contact: Yusufujiang RUSULI E-mail:philamour@163.com;Yusupjan@xjnu.edu.cn

Abstract:

To obtain timely and accurate information about crop cultivation in arid zones, this study used the PIE-Engine Studio platform to extract 14 vegetation indices in the Yanqi Basin, Xinjiang, China based on 2022 Sentinel-2 images and 1948 field location sampling data during the crop reproduction period. Crop planting information was extracted using the See5.0 decision tree, random forest (RF), and multiple regression (MR) models to select feature parameters. Each model was combined with support vector machine (SVM) algorithms to construct five classification models and five sample segmentation schemes. The best classification scheme was determined by visual interpretation and confusion matrix comparison. The results are as follows: (1) The overall accuracy (OA) and Kappa coefficients of all classification models are above 92.20% and 0.9037, respectively, indicating that it is feasible to extract crop information using the SVM algorithm in the PIE platform. (2) The mean OA and Kappa coefficients of SVM-with-red-edge are 93.77% and 0.9236, which are 0.96% and 0.0120, respectively. (3) The introduction of vegetation index improved the OA and Kappa coefficients of SVM-RF, SVM-MR, and SVM-See5.0 compared with the SVM-with-red-edge method. (4) The mean OA and Kappa coefficient relationships for the five classification models were SVM-RF>SVM-MR>SVM-See5.0>SVM-with-red-edge>SVM-without-red-edge, showing that the inclusion of the red-edge band and vegetation index significantly improved the accuracy of crop identification, with SVM-RF (8:2) being the best classification model with OA and Kappa coefficients of 98.72% and 0.9866, respectively. These results provide new ideas and references for accurate and rapid access to large-scale arid zone crop information.

Key words: crop, Sentinel-2, support vector machines, PIE-Engine Studio, Yanqi Basin