Crop Monitoring-Tna

Modeling for Crop Monitoring in GIS
Environment
Er. Tina Baidar

Survey Officer
Survey Department, Kathmandu
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Crop Monitoring
 Process of tracking, reviewing and revising the crop
growth to ensure the growth occurs as expected.
 This includes:
 Crop type mapping
 Crop area mapping
 Crop growth monitoring
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Crop Type Mapping (Temporal
Classification)
 Crop exhibits seasonal change from early stage of
planting to the stage of harvesting.
 It follows a pattern that can be captured through the use

of RS technique.
 Based on this pattern, types of crop for e.g. rice or wheat or

maize can be classified.
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Normalized Difference Vegetation
Index
 NDVI is a numerical indicator that is adopted to analyze
remote sensing measurements and assess whether the target
being observed contains live green vegetation or not.
 It uses the visible and near-infrared bands of the

electromagnetic spectrum and can be obtained as
NDVI= (NIR-RED) / (NIR+RED)
 Values of NDVI ranges from -1 to 1.
 It has wide application in vegetative studies
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Crop calendar for major crops of Nepal
Source: FAO/GIEWS, FAO/WFP CFSAM, 2007
MODIS 16 day composite vegetation index reference calendar

MODIS Period Julian Day Range Calendar Day
13 193 - 208 Jul 12 - 27
1 1- 16 Jan 01 - 16
14 209 - 224 Jul 28 - 12 Aug
2 17 - 32 Jan 17 - 01 Feb
15 225 - 240 Aug 13 - 28
3 33 - 48 Feb 02 - Feb 17
16 241 - 256 Aug 29 - 13 Sep
4 49 - 64 Feb 18 - 05 Mar
17 257 - 272 Sep 14 - 29
5 65 - 80 Mar 06 - 21
6 81 - 96 Mar 22 - 06 Apr 18 273 - 288 Sep 30 - 15 Oct
7 97 - 112 Apr 07 - 22 19 289 - 304 Oct 16 - 31
8 113 - 128 Apr 23 - 08 May 20 305 - 320 Nov 01 - 16

9 129 - 144 May 09 - 24 21 321 - 336 Nov 17 - 02 Dec
10 145 - 160 May 25 - 09 Jun 22 337 - 352 Dec 03 - 18
5 11 161 - 176 Jun 10 - 25 23 353 - 365+ Dec 19 - 03 Jan
12 177 - 192 Jun 26 - 11 Jul
Crop area mapping
 Estimation of area by remote sensing is controlled by spatial resolution
of the satellite
Agricultural area estimation using satellite images at various scale.
(Source, IRSA Beijing, 2009)

Assumption for crop area estimation:
• The signature of the concerned crop during the period of
observation is unique and statistically separable from other land
covers.
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Area Estimation Approach: Hierarchical
classification from multi-date data
 Use of Crop calendar to estimate the variation of different crops in different
seasons.
 Computation of VI at different stage of crop cycle: SOS, POS & EOS.
 Use of this variation to estimate the crop area.
Fig: Time series NDVI data showing crop phenology

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Crop growth monitoring
 Process of tracking, reviewing and revising the crop growth to
ensure the growth occurs as expected.
 Components:
1. Weather monitoring: gathering and processing of
meteorological data that assist crop modeling.
2. Crop growth modeling: Integrating weather and static data
for crop forecast.
3. Statistical methods: comparing the results or crop growth
with statistical data.
To monitor the crop growth from remote sensing, the annual cycle
of crop phenology can be inferred and characterized.
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Vegetation trend analysis and
anomaly detection
• NDVI as an important parameter to detect changes
Fig: NDVI comparison

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Delay in summer rain and its impact on Maize crop
Comparison with mean of last 10 years
25 June 2011
25 June 2012
25 June 2012
Anomaly ( Z Score)
Worst than normal
Normal (stable)
Better than normal
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Anomaly with reference to 10 years mean
MODIS data for crop
monitoring
 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer.
 Provides global, daily observation in 36 spectral bands.

 Spatial resolution: 250m
 Provides very high temporal resolution data which enables exploration of dynamic
changes in the crop pattern intra annually and inter annually.
 Potential for large area crop characterization on seasonal basis and for crop area
mapping.
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ModelBuilder
 ModelBuilder is an application that can be used to create,
edit, and manage models.
 Models are workflows that string together sequences of

geoprocessing tools, feeding the output of one tool into
another tool as input.
 ModelBuilder is very useful for constructing and executing

workflows.
 You can create your own tools with ModelBuilder
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Models to map rice crop
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THANK YOU!!
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Modeling for Crop Monitoring in GIS

Er. Tina Baidar

 It follows a pattern that can be captured through the use

 Based on this pattern, types of crop for e.g. rice or wheat or

 It uses the visible and near-infrared bands of the

 Values of NDVI ranges from -1 to 1.

 It has wide application in vegetative studies

Source: FAO/GIEWS, FAO/WFP CFSAM, 2007

MODIS 16 day composite vegetation index reference calendar

7 97 - 112 Apr 07 - 22 19 289 - 304 Oct 16 - 31

8 113 - 128 Apr 23 - 08 May 20 305 - 320 Nov 01 - 16

(Source, IRSA Beijing, 2009)

Fig: Time series NDVI data showing crop phenology

Fig: NDVI comparison

Worst than normal

Better than normal

 Provides global, daily observation in 36 spectral bands.

 Models are workflows that string together sequences of

 ModelBuilder is very useful for constructing and executing

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