A phenology-based vegetation index for improving ratoon rice mapping using harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data

Ratoon rice, which refers to a second harvest of rice obtained from the regenerated tillers originating from the stubble of the first harvested crop, plays an important role in both food security and agroecology while requiring minimal agricultural inputs. However, accurately identifying ratoon rice...

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Autores principales: Chen, Yunping, Hu, Jie, Cai, Zhiwen, Yang, Jingya, Zhou, Wei, Hu, Qiong, You, Liangzhi, Xu, Baodong
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Publicado: Elsevier 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/173407
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author Chen, Yunping
Hu, Jie
Cai, Zhiwen
Yang, Jingya
Zhou, Wei
Hu, Qiong
You, Liangzhi
Xu, Baodong
author_browse Cai, Zhiwen
Chen, Yunping
Hu, Jie
Hu, Qiong
Xu, Baodong
Yang, Jingya
You, Liangzhi
Zhou, Wei
author_facet Chen, Yunping
Hu, Jie
Cai, Zhiwen
Yang, Jingya
Zhou, Wei
Hu, Qiong
You, Liangzhi
Xu, Baodong
author_sort Chen, Yunping
collection Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace)
description Ratoon rice, which refers to a second harvest of rice obtained from the regenerated tillers originating from the stubble of the first harvested crop, plays an important role in both food security and agroecology while requiring minimal agricultural inputs. However, accurately identifying ratoon rice crops is challenging due to the similarity of its spectral features with other rice cropping systems (e.g., double rice). Moreover, images with a high spatiotemporal resolution are essential since ratoon rice is generally cultivated in fragmented croplands within regions that frequently exhibit cloudy and rainy weather. In this study, taking Qichun County in Hubei Province, China as an example, we developed a new phenology-based ratoon rice vegetation index (PRVI) for the purpose of ratoon rice mapping at a 30 m spatial resolution using a robust time series generated from Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) images. The PRVI that incorporated the red, near-infrared, and shortwave infrared 1 bands was developed based on the analysis of spectro-phenological separability and feature selection. Based on actual field samples, the performance of the PRVI for ratoon rice mapping was carefully evaluated by comparing it to several vegetation indices, including normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), enhanced vegetation index (EVI) and land surface water index (LSWI). The results suggested that the PRVI could sufficiently capture the specific characteristics of ratoon rice, leading to a favorable separability between ratoon rice and other land cover types. Furthermore, the PRVI showed the best performance for identifying ratoon rice in the phenological phases characterized by grain filling and harvesting to tillering of the ratoon crop (GHS-TS2), indicating that only several images are required to obtain an accurate ratoon rice map. Finally, the PRVI performed better than NDVI, EVI, LSWI and their combination at the GHS-TS2 stages, with producer’s accuracy and user’s accuracy of 92.22 and 89.30%, respectively. These results demonstrate that the proposed PRVI based on HLS data can effectively identify ratoon rice in fragmented croplands at crucial phenological stages, which is promising for identifying the earliest timing of ratoon rice planting and can provide a fundamental dataset for crop management activities.
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spelling CGSpace1734072025-12-08T10:11:39Z A phenology-based vegetation index for improving ratoon rice mapping using harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data Chen, Yunping Hu, Jie Cai, Zhiwen Yang, Jingya Zhou, Wei Hu, Qiong You, Liangzhi Xu, Baodong agroecology food security phenology rice vegetation index Ratoon rice, which refers to a second harvest of rice obtained from the regenerated tillers originating from the stubble of the first harvested crop, plays an important role in both food security and agroecology while requiring minimal agricultural inputs. However, accurately identifying ratoon rice crops is challenging due to the similarity of its spectral features with other rice cropping systems (e.g., double rice). Moreover, images with a high spatiotemporal resolution are essential since ratoon rice is generally cultivated in fragmented croplands within regions that frequently exhibit cloudy and rainy weather. In this study, taking Qichun County in Hubei Province, China as an example, we developed a new phenology-based ratoon rice vegetation index (PRVI) for the purpose of ratoon rice mapping at a 30 m spatial resolution using a robust time series generated from Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) images. The PRVI that incorporated the red, near-infrared, and shortwave infrared 1 bands was developed based on the analysis of spectro-phenological separability and feature selection. Based on actual field samples, the performance of the PRVI for ratoon rice mapping was carefully evaluated by comparing it to several vegetation indices, including normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), enhanced vegetation index (EVI) and land surface water index (LSWI). The results suggested that the PRVI could sufficiently capture the specific characteristics of ratoon rice, leading to a favorable separability between ratoon rice and other land cover types. Furthermore, the PRVI showed the best performance for identifying ratoon rice in the phenological phases characterized by grain filling and harvesting to tillering of the ratoon crop (GHS-TS2), indicating that only several images are required to obtain an accurate ratoon rice map. Finally, the PRVI performed better than NDVI, EVI, LSWI and their combination at the GHS-TS2 stages, with producer’s accuracy and user’s accuracy of 92.22 and 89.30%, respectively. These results demonstrate that the proposed PRVI based on HLS data can effectively identify ratoon rice in fragmented croplands at crucial phenological stages, which is promising for identifying the earliest timing of ratoon rice planting and can provide a fundamental dataset for crop management activities. 2024-04 2025-02-26T20:47:53Z 2025-02-26T20:47:53Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/173407 en Open Access Elsevier Chen, Yunping; Hu, Jie; Cai, Zhiwen; Yang, Jingya; Zhou, Wei; Hu, Qiong; You, Liangzhi; and Xu, Baodong. 2024. A phenology-based vegetation index for improving ratoon rice mapping using harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 23(4): 1164-1178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jia.2023.05.035
spellingShingle agroecology
food security
phenology
rice
vegetation index
Chen, Yunping
Hu, Jie
Cai, Zhiwen
Yang, Jingya
Zhou, Wei
Hu, Qiong
You, Liangzhi
Xu, Baodong
A phenology-based vegetation index for improving ratoon rice mapping using harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data
title A phenology-based vegetation index for improving ratoon rice mapping using harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data
title_full A phenology-based vegetation index for improving ratoon rice mapping using harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data
title_fullStr A phenology-based vegetation index for improving ratoon rice mapping using harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data
title_full_unstemmed A phenology-based vegetation index for improving ratoon rice mapping using harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data
title_short A phenology-based vegetation index for improving ratoon rice mapping using harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 data
title_sort phenology based vegetation index for improving ratoon rice mapping using harmonized landsat and sentinel 2 data
topic agroecology
food security
phenology
rice
vegetation index
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/173407
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