Affiliation:
1. Beijing Key Laboratory of High Dynamic Navigation, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100101, China
2. State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
Abstract
Northern Slopes of Tianshan Mountain (NSTM) in Xinjiang hold significance as a principal agricultural hub within the region’s arid zone. Accurate crop mapping across vast agricultural expanses is fundamental for intelligent crop monitoring and devising sustainable agricultural strategies. Previous studies on multi-temporal crop classification have predominantly focused on single-point pixel temporal features, often neglecting spatial data. In large-scale crop classification tasks, by using spatial information around the pixel, the contextual relationships of the crop can be obtained to reduce possible noise interference. This research introduces a multi-scale, multi-temporal classification framework centered on ConvGRU (convolutional gated recurrent unit). By leveraging the attention mechanism of the Strip Pooling Module (SPM), a multi-scale spatial feature extraction module has been designed. This module accentuates vital spatial and spectral features, enhancing the clarity of crop edges and reducing misclassifications. The temporal information fusion module integration features from various periods to bolster classification precision. Using Sentinel-2 imagery spanning May to October 2022, datasets for cotton, corn, and winter wheat of the NSTM were generated for the framework’s training and validation. The results demonstrate an impressive 93.03% accuracy for 10 m resolution crop mapping using 15-day interval, 12-band Sentinel-2 data for the three crops. This method outperforms other mainstream methods like Random Forest (RF), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Transformer, and Temporal Convolutional Neural Network (TempCNN), showcasing a kappa coefficient of 0.9062, 7.52% and 2.42% improvement in Overall Accuracy compared to RF and LSTM, respectively, which demonstrate the potential of our model for large-scale crop classification tasks to enable high-resolution crop mapping on the NSTM.
Funder
The National Key Research and Development Program of China
Subject
Agronomy and Crop Science
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