Retrieving Crop Albedo Based on Radar Sentinel-1 and Random Forest Approach
Monitoring agricultural crops is of paramount importance for preserving water resources and increasing water efficiency over semi-arid areas. This can be achieved by modelling the water resources all along the growing season through the coupled water–surface energy balance. Surface albedo is a key l...
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| author | Abdelhakim Amazirh El Houssaine Bouras Luis Enrique Olivera-Guerra Salah Er-Raki Abdelghani Chehbouni |
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| description | Monitoring agricultural crops is of paramount importance for preserving water resources and increasing water efficiency over semi-arid areas. This can be achieved by modelling the water resources all along the growing season through the coupled water–surface energy balance. Surface albedo is a key land surface variable to constrain the surface radiation budget and hence the coupled water–surface energy balance. In order to capture the hydric status changes over the growing season, optical remote sensing becomes impractical due to cloud cover in some periods, especially over irrigated winter crops in semi-arid regions. To fill the gap, this paper aims to generate cloudless surface albedo product from Sentinel-1 data that offers a source of high spatio-temporal resolution images. This can help to better capture the vegetation development along the growth season through the surface radiation budget. Random Forest (RF) algorithm was implemented using Sentinel-1 backscatters as input. The approach was tested over an irrigated semi-arid zone in Morocco, which is known by its heterogeneity in term of soil conditions and crop types. The obtained results are evaluated against Landsat-derived albedo with quasi-concurrent Landsat/Sentinel-1 overpasses (up to one day offset), while a further validation was investigated using in situ field scale albedo data. The best model-hyperparameters selection was dependent on two validation approaches (K-fold cross-validation ‘k = 10’, and holdout). The more robust and accurate model parameters are those that represent the best statistical metrics (root mean square error ‘RMSE’, bias and correlation coefficient ‘R’). Coefficient values ranging from 0.70 to 0.79 and a RMSE value between 0.0002 and 0.00048 were obtained comparing Landsat and predicted albedo by RF method. The relative error ratio equals 4.5, which is acceptable to predict surface albedo. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c9bc220cc93c493289f24f32bed4e57b2023-11-22T09:33:19ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922021-08-011316318110.3390/rs13163181Retrieving Crop Albedo Based on Radar Sentinel-1 and Random Forest ApproachAbdelhakim Amazirh0El Houssaine Bouras1Luis Enrique Olivera-Guerra2Salah Er-Raki3Abdelghani Chehbouni4Center for Remote Sensing Applications (CRSA), University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P), Benguerir 43150, MoroccoProcEDE, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech 40000, MoroccoCentre d’Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère (CESBIO), Université de Toulouse (CNES/CNRS/INRA, IRD/UPS), 31013 Toulouse, FranceCenter for Remote Sensing Applications (CRSA), University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P), Benguerir 43150, MoroccoCenter for Remote Sensing Applications (CRSA), University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P), Benguerir 43150, MoroccoMonitoring agricultural crops is of paramount importance for preserving water resources and increasing water efficiency over semi-arid areas. This can be achieved by modelling the water resources all along the growing season through the coupled water–surface energy balance. Surface albedo is a key land surface variable to constrain the surface radiation budget and hence the coupled water–surface energy balance. In order to capture the hydric status changes over the growing season, optical remote sensing becomes impractical due to cloud cover in some periods, especially over irrigated winter crops in semi-arid regions. To fill the gap, this paper aims to generate cloudless surface albedo product from Sentinel-1 data that offers a source of high spatio-temporal resolution images. This can help to better capture the vegetation development along the growth season through the surface radiation budget. Random Forest (RF) algorithm was implemented using Sentinel-1 backscatters as input. The approach was tested over an irrigated semi-arid zone in Morocco, which is known by its heterogeneity in term of soil conditions and crop types. The obtained results are evaluated against Landsat-derived albedo with quasi-concurrent Landsat/Sentinel-1 overpasses (up to one day offset), while a further validation was investigated using in situ field scale albedo data. The best model-hyperparameters selection was dependent on two validation approaches (K-fold cross-validation ‘k = 10’, and holdout). The more robust and accurate model parameters are those that represent the best statistical metrics (root mean square error ‘RMSE’, bias and correlation coefficient ‘R’). Coefficient values ranging from 0.70 to 0.79 and a RMSE value between 0.0002 and 0.00048 were obtained comparing Landsat and predicted albedo by RF method. The relative error ratio equals 4.5, which is acceptable to predict surface albedo.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/16/3181surface albedorandom forestSentinel-1crop vegetationLandsat |
| spellingShingle | Abdelhakim Amazirh El Houssaine Bouras Luis Enrique Olivera-Guerra Salah Er-Raki Abdelghani Chehbouni Retrieving Crop Albedo Based on Radar Sentinel-1 and Random Forest Approach Remote Sensing surface albedo random forest Sentinel-1 crop vegetation Landsat |
| title | Retrieving Crop Albedo Based on Radar Sentinel-1 and Random Forest Approach |
| title_full | Retrieving Crop Albedo Based on Radar Sentinel-1 and Random Forest Approach |
| title_fullStr | Retrieving Crop Albedo Based on Radar Sentinel-1 and Random Forest Approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Retrieving Crop Albedo Based on Radar Sentinel-1 and Random Forest Approach |
| title_short | Retrieving Crop Albedo Based on Radar Sentinel-1 and Random Forest Approach |
| title_sort | retrieving crop albedo based on radar sentinel 1 and random forest approach |
| topic | surface albedo random forest Sentinel-1 crop vegetation Landsat |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/16/3181 |
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