Mapping annual 10-m maize cropland changes in China during 2017–2021

Autor: Xingang Li, Ying Qu, Hao Geng, Qi Xin, Jianxi Huang, Shuwen Peng, Liqiang Zhang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Scientific Data, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2052-4463
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02665-3
Popis: Abstract China contributed nearly one-fifth of the world maize production over the past few years. Mapping the distributions of maize cropland in China is crucial to ensure global food security. Nonetheless, 10 m maize cropland maps in China are still unavailable, restricting the promotion of sustainable agriculture. In this paper, we collect numerous samples to produce annual 10-m maize cropland maps in China from 2017 to 2021 with a machine learning based classification framework. To overcome the temporal variations of plants, the proposed framework takes Sentinel-2 sequence images as input and utilizes deep neural networks and random forest as classifiers to map maize in a zone-specific way. The generated maps have an overall accuracy (OA) spanning from 0.87 to 0.95 and the maize-cultivated areas estimated by the maps are highly consistent with the records in statistical yearbooks (R 2 varying from 0.83 to 0.95). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first annual 10-m maize maps across China, which largely facilitates the sustainable agriculture development in China dominated by smallholder farmlands.
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