Classification of Winter Land Cover in New Zealand Hill Country for Risky Practice Identification
| Autor: | J. J. Drewry, S.E. Belliss, Alexander C. Amies, Jan Schindler, Heather North, D. Pairman, John R. Dymond, James D. Shepherd |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
business.industry 0211 other engineering and technologies Forage 02 engineering and technology Land cover Spatial distribution Snow 01 natural sciences Geography Agriculture Shadow Grazing Physical geography business Cropping 021101 geological & geomatics engineering 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | IGARSS |
| DOI: | 10.1109/igarss39084.2020.9323159 |
| Popis: | Research in New Zealand indicates that winter forage grazing on steep land creates a high risk of sediment loss. This loss can have a significant impact on sediment and associated nutrient content of waterways. A national-scale map of winter forage cropping on land with slope of greater than 7° was created using spectral and temporal analysis of Sentinel-2 imagery. Images between March and September 2018 were masked for cloud, cloud shadow, and snow using a time-series-controlled layer. Land cover classification using maximum likelihood estimation was applied. Field boundaries were generated using the temporal image stack so that field-level homogeneity could be exploited. The mode classification per-polygon and bare ground observation dates allowed polygons totaling 0.69% of New Zealand's agricultural hill country to be stratified into three certainty levels of risky agricultural practice. For the first time, extent and spatial distribution of these practices have been estimated for policy development. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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