An LSWI-Based Method for Mapping Irrigated Areas in China Using Moderate-Resolution Satellite Data
An LSWI-Based Method for Mapping Irrigated Areas in China Using Moderate-Resolution Satellite Data
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基于 LSWI 的中分辨率卫星数据绘制中国灌溉区地图的方法
DOI:
10.3390/rs12244181
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发表时间:
2020
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影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
Deng Yujiao
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作者:
Xiang Kunlun;Yuan Wenping;Wang Liwen;Deng Yujiao
Accurate spatial information about irrigation is crucial to a variety of applications, such as water resources management, water exchange between the land surface and atmosphere, climate change, hydrological cycle, food security, and agricultural planning. Our study proposes a new method for extracting cropland irrigation information using statistical data, mean annual precipitation and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land cover type data and surface reflectance data. The approach is based on comparing the land surface water index (LSWI) of cropland pixels to that of adjacent forest pixels with similar normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). In our study, we validated the approach over mainland China with 612 reference samples (231 irrigated and 381 non-irrigated) and found the accuracy of 62.09%. Validation with statistical data also showed that our method explained 86.67 and 58.87% of the spatial variation in irrigated area at the provincial and prefecture levels, respectively. We further compared our new map to existing datasets of FAO/UF, IWMI, Zhu and statistical data, and found a good agreement with the irrigated area distribution from Zhu’s dataset. Results show that our method is an effective method apply to mapping irrigated regions and monitoring their yearly changes. Because the method does not depend on training samples, it can be easily repeated to other regions.