@inproceedings{27384c2329704c02944d948b6f28b275,
title = "A Multi-Modal Approach for Monitoring Changes in Agriculture in the Mekong River Delta",
abstract = "Smallholder farms in South East Asia are characterized by small irregular field patterns, dense cloud cover and haze which limits our ability to observe changes in agriculture land-use. Very-high resolution (VHR, < 5 m) Earth observing (EO) satellites have grown into constellations with global repeat coverage that can support multiple observations within a growing season. Here we present a multi-modal approach to map and monitor changes in agriculture at the field scale in the Mekong River Delta with VHR optical imagery from Worldview-1, 2 and 3, and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) from Sentinel-1. Our approach leverages the benefits of SAR and VHR imagery with geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) in a high-end computing environment to rapidly map the distribution and size of agriculture fields that are not observable at moderate resolution (> 30 m) in regions with dense persistent cloud cover and haze from biomass burning.",
keywords = "agriculture, GEOBIA, land cover, Mekong Delta, rice, Sentinel-1, WorldView",
author = "Neigh, {Christopher S.R.} and Nathan Thomas and Carroll, {Mark L.} and Margaret Wooten and McCarty, {Jessica L.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 IEEE.; 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2020 ; Conference date: 26-09-2020 Through 02-10-2020",
year = "2020",
month = sep,
day = "26",
doi = "10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9324083",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-7281-6375-8 ",
series = "International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "3709--3711",
booktitle = "2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2020 - Proceedings",
address = "United States",
}
