Effect of Missing Vines on Total Leaf Area Determined by NDVI Calculated from Sentinel Satellite Data: Progressive Vine Removal Experiments

Autor: Enrique Barajas, Rubén Vacas, Carlos Poblete-Echeverría, José Antonio Rubio, S. Vélez
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Canopy
Vine
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
NDVI
Field experiment
total leaf area
0211 other engineering and technologies
Context (language use)
02 engineering and technology
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
01 natural sciences
Vineyard
lcsh:Technology
lcsh:Chemistry
General Materials Science
precision viticulture
Instrumentation
lcsh:QH301-705.5
021101 geological & geomatics engineering
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Remote sensing
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
lcsh:T
Process Chemistry and Technology
General Engineering
Cabernet Sauvignon
Vegetation
lcsh:QC1-999
Computer Science Applications
mixed pixels
lcsh:Biology (General)
lcsh:QD1-999
lcsh:TA1-2040
Precision viticulture
Environmental science
lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
lcsh:Physics
Zdroj: Applied Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 3612, p 3612 (2020)
ISSN: 2076-3417
Popis: Remote Sensing (RS) allows the estimation of some important vineyard parameters. There are several platforms for obtaining RS information. In this context, Sentinel satellites are a valuable tool for RS since they provide free and regular images of the earth’s surface. However, several problems regarding the low-resolution of the imagery arise when using this technology, such as handling mixed pixels that include vegetation, soil and shadows. Under this condition, the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) value in a particular pixel is an indicator of the amount of vegetation (canopy area) rather than the NDVI from the canopy (as a vigour expression), but its reliability varies depending on several factors, such as the presence of mixed pixels or the effect of missing vines (a vineyard, once established, generally loses grapevines each year due to diseases, abiotic stress, etc.). In this study, a vine removal simulation (greenhouse experiment) and an actual vine removal (field experiment) were carried out. In the field experiment, the position of the Sentinel-2 pixels was marked using high-precision GPS. Controlled removal of vines from a block of cv. Cabernet Sauvignon was done in four steps. The removal of the vines was done during the summer of 2019, matching with the start of the maximum vegetative growth. The Total Leaf Area (TLA) of each pixel was calculated using destructive field measurements. The operations were planned to have two satellite images available between each removal step. As a result, a strong linear relationship (R2 = 0.986 and R2 = 0.72) was obtained between the TLA and NDVI reductions, which quantitatively indicates the effect of the missing vines on the NDVI values.
Databáze: OpenAIRE