Improvement of In-season Crop Mapping for Illinois Cropland Using Multiple Machine Learning Classifiers

Hui Li, Liping Di, Chen Zhang, Li Lin, Liying Guo

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Abstract

Large-Area crop type identification and mapping for cropland are intensively crucial for agriculture research, yield forecast, and disaster management. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) produces the Cropland Data Layer (CDL) for Contiguous United States cropland that involves crop type spatial distribution with 30m resolution. However, CDL is always published in early next year, which cannot meet the needs for in-season agricultural applications. In this paper, we embark on solving the questions above and introduce a large-Area efficient crop mapping approach. We utilized historical CDL data to extract crop trusted pixels in Illinois. The trusted pixels were as training data of the machine learning model for crop type classification. We combined random forest and minimum distance model to time-series classification. We used Google Earth Engine to produce four in-season crop maps of the Illinois cropland in May-August. The validation result shows the overall accuracy of Illinois in-season crop mapping 2021 up to 91% and the major crops classification accuracy is around 92%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 10th International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics, Agro-Geoinformatics 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665470780
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics, Agro-Geoinformatics 2022 - Quebec City, Canada
Duration: Jul 11 2022Jul 14 2022

Publication series

Name2022 10th International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics, Agro-Geoinformatics 2022

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Agro-Geoinformatics, Agro-Geoinformatics 2022
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityQuebec City
Period7/11/227/14/22

Keywords

  • CDL
  • crop mapping
  • in-season
  • minimum distance
  • random forest

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Agronomy and Crop Science
  • Soil Science
  • Computers in Earth Sciences
  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management

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