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Joint retrieval of growing season corn canopy LAI and leaf chlorophyll content by fusing Sentinel-2 and MODIS images
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posted on 2019-11-13, 15:00 authored by Wei Su, Zhongping Sun, Wen-Hua ChenWen-Hua Chen, Xiaodong Zhang, Chan Yao, Jiayu Wu, Jianxi Huang, Dehai ZhuContinuous and accurate estimates of crop canopy leaf area index (LAI) and chlorophyll content are of great importance for crop growth monitoring. These estimates can be useful for precision agricultural management and agricultural planning. Our objectives were to investigate the joint retrieval of corn canopy LAI and chlorophyll content using filtered reflectances from Sentinel-2 and MODIS data acquired during the corn growing season, which, being generally hot and rainy, results in few cloud-free Sentinel-2 images. In addition, the retrieved time series of LAI and chlorophyll content results were used to monitor the corn growth behavior in the study area. Our results showed that: (1) the joint retrieval of LAI and chlorophyll content using the proposed joint probability distribution method improved the estimation accuracy of both corn canopy LAI and chlorophyll content. Corn canopy LAI and chlorophyll content were retrieved jointly and accurately using the PROSAIL model with fused Kalman filtered (KF) reflectance images. The relation between retrieved and field measured LAI and chlorophyll content of four corn-growing stages had a coefficient of determination (R2) of about 0.6, and root mean square errors (RMSEs) ranges of mainly 0.1-0.2 and 0.0-0.3, respectively. (2) Kalman filtering is a good way to produce continuous high-resolution reflectance images by synthesizing Sentinel-2 and MODIS reflectances. The correlation between fused KF and Sentinel-2 reflectances had an R2 value of 0.98 and RMSE of 0.0133, and the correlation between KF and field-measured reflectances had an R2 value of 0.8598 and RMSE of 0.0404. (3) The derived continuous KF reflectances captured the crop behavior well. Our analysis showed that the LAI increased from day of year (DOY) 181 (trefoil stage) to DOY 236 (filling stage), and then increased continuously until harvest, while the chlorophyll content first also increased from DOY 181 to DOY 236, and then remained stable until harvest. These results revealed that the jointly retrieved continuous LAI and chlorophyll content could be used to monitor corn growth conditions.
Funding
National Natural Science Foundation of China under the projects Growth process monitoring of corn by combining time-series spectral remote sensing images and terrestrial laser scanning data (No. 41671433), Chinese Universities Scientific Fund “Retrieval of biomass for summer corn after canopy is closed using remote sensing image” (No. 2019TC138) and “Monitoring the quantity and quality using remote sensing and intelligence analysis of total factor for cropland” (No. 2019TC117), and Science and Technology Facilities Council of UK- Newton Agritech Programme (No. ST/N006798/1)
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- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
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- Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
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Remote SensingVolume
11Issue
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MDPI AGVersion
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2019-10-12Publication date
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2072-4292Publisher version
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Prof Wen-Hua Chen. Deposit date: 12 November 2019Article number
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