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Extracting Lotus Fields Using the Spectral Characteristics of GF-1 Satellite Data
Dongping Zha1,2, Haisheng Cai1,*, Xueling Zhang1, Qinggang He1, Liting Chen1, Chunqing Qiu1, Shufang Xia2
1
The Key Laboratory of Po-Yang Lake Watershed Agricultural Resources and Ecology of Jiangxi Province, Jiangxi Agricultural
University, Nanchang, 330045, China
2
Jiangxi Tourism and Commerce Vocational College, Nanchang, 330100, China
* Corresponding Author: Haisheng Cai. Email:
(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Integrating Agronomy and Plant Physiology for Improving Crop Production)
Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany 2022, 91(10), 2297-2311. https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2022.020117
Received 05 November 2021; Accepted 20 January 2022; Issue published 30 May 2022
Abstract
The lotus (
Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) is an aquatic plant that grows in shallow water and has long been cultivated
in South China. It can improve the incomes of farmers and plays an important role in alleviating poverty in rural
China. However, a modern method is required to accurately estimate the area of lotus fields. Lotus has spectral
characteristics similar to those of rice, grassland, and shrubs. The features surrounding areas where it is grown are
complex, small, and fragmented. Few studies have examined the remote sensing extraction of lotus fields, and
automatic extraction and mapping are still challenging methods. Here, we compared the spectral characteristics
of lotus fields and other ground objects and devised a remote sensing method for the rapid extraction of lotus
fields. Using this method, the extraction accuracy of lotus was 96.3%. The Kappa coefficient was 0.926, which
is higher than those of the unsupervised K-means classification, Mahalanobis distance, and support vector
machine supervised classification, and demonstrates the potential of this method for extracting and mapping lotus
fields by remote sensing.
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APA Style
Zha, D., Cai, H., Zhang, X., He, Q., Chen, L. et al. (2022). Extracting lotus fields using the spectral characteristics of GF-1 satellite data. Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, 91(10), 2297-2311. https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2022.020117
Vancouver Style
Zha D, Cai H, Zhang X, He Q, Chen L, Qiu C, et al. Extracting lotus fields using the spectral characteristics of GF-1 satellite data. Phyton-Int J Exp Bot. 2022;91(10):2297-2311 https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2022.020117
IEEE Style
D. Zha et al., "Extracting Lotus Fields Using the Spectral Characteristics of GF-1 Satellite Data," Phyton-Int. J. Exp. Bot., vol. 91, no. 10, pp. 2297-2311. 2022. https://doi.org/10.32604/phyton.2022.020117