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Understanding the Requirements for Surveys to Support Satellite-Based Crop Type Mapping : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa / George Azzari.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Azzari, George.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture.
- Climate Change and Agriculture.
- Crop Mapping.
- Crops and Crop Management Systems.
- Data Integration.
- Earth Observation.
- Earth Sciences and GIS.
- Environment.
- Household Survey.
- Maize.
- Natural Disasters.
- Remote Sensing.
- Satellite Imagery.
- Science and Technology Development.
- Sentinel-2.
- Sustainable Land Management.
- Local Subjects:
- Agriculture.
- Climate Change and Agriculture.
- Crop Mapping.
- Crops and Crop Management Systems.
- Data Integration.
- Earth Observation.
- Earth Sciences and GIS.
- Environment.
- Household Survey.
- Maize.
- Natural Disasters.
- Remote Sensing.
- Satellite Imagery.
- Science and Technology Development.
- Sentinel-2.
- Sustainable Land Management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (43 pages)
- Other Title:
- Understanding the Requirements for Surveys to Support Satellite-Based Crop Type Mapping
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2021.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- With the surge in publicly available high-resolution satellite imagery, satellite-based monitoring of smallholder agricultural outcomes is gaining momentum. This paper provides recommendations on how large-scale household surveys should be conducted to generate the data needed to train models for satellite-based crop type mapping in smallholder farming systems. The analysis focuses on maize cultivation in Malawi and Ethiopia, and leverages rich, georeferenced plot-level data from national household surveys that were conducted in 2018-20 and that are integrated with Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and complementary geospatial data. To identify the approach to survey data collection that yields optimal data for training remote sensing models, 26,250 in silico experiments are simulated within a machine learning framework. The best model is then applied to map seasonal maize cultivation from 2016 to 2019 at 10-meter resolution in both countries. The analysis reveals that smallholder plots with maize cultivation can be identified with up to 75 percent accuracy. However, the predictive accuracy varies with the approach to georeferencing plot locations and the number of observations in the training data. Collecting full plot boundaries or complete plot corner points provides the best quality of information for model training. Classification performance peaks with slightly less than 60 percent of the training data. Seemingly small erosion in accuracy under less preferable approaches to georeferencing plots results in total area under maize cultivation being overestimated by 0.16 to 0.47 million hectares (8 to 24 percent) in Malawi.
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