Sugarcane mapping in Paraná State Brazil using MODIS EVI images.

Abstract Sugarcane cultivated in Brazil deserves attention because it makes the Country the world's largest producer of sugar and ethanol. The aim of this work was to develop and evaluate a methodology for sugarcane mapping in Paraná State, Brazil using temporal series of the MODIS EVI, for 201...

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Authors: CECHIM JÚNIOR, C., JOHANN, J. A., ANTUNES, J. F. G., DEPPE, F.
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2020
Country:Brasil
Institution:Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)
Repository:Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br:doc/1123618
Online Access:http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1123618
https://doi.org/10.23953/cloud.ijarsg.451
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Índice de vegetação
Mapeamento de cana-de-açúcar
Annual agriculture
Timeseries
Cana de Açúcar
Agricultura
Sensoriamento Remoto
Agriculture
Sugarcane
Time series analysis
Vegetation index
Remote sensing
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Summary:Abstract Sugarcane cultivated in Brazil deserves attention because it makes the Country the world's largest producer of sugar and ethanol. The aim of this work was to develop and evaluate a methodology for sugarcane mapping in Paraná State, Brazil using temporal series of the MODIS EVI, for 2010/2011 to 2013/2014 crop seasons. The methodology included supervised classification Fuzzy ARTMAP, taking as input variables such as terms of harmonics amplitude and phase, and phenological metrics of culture. Area estimates indicated a moderate and strong correlation (rs), ranging from 0.62 to 0.71 comparing with IBGE official data and from 0.79 to 0.87 with the Canasat data. To assess mapping accuracy, Canasat vector maps were used as reference to build the confusion matrix. The method developed based on Fuzzy ARTMAP proved efficient to map and estimate the acreage of sugarcane in the State of Paraná, due to digital processing techniques used in homogeneous samples, selection of phenological seasonal metrics, and decomposition of images in accordance with harmonics and supervised training. These together minimized the neural network forecast errors. Results indicate that the methodology is appropriate for sugarcane mapping.