In-Season Automated Mapping of Xinjiang Cotton Based on Cumulative Spectral and Phenological Characteristics
Obtaining timely, accurate, and automated data on the spatial distribution and planting area of cotton is crucial for production management and informed trade decision-making. In this regard, remote sensing technologies are important and effective means. Methods based on machine learning, and deep l...
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| author | Yongsheng Huang Yaozhong Pan Yu Zhu Xiufang Zhu Xingsheng Xia Qiong Chen Jufang Hu Hongyan Che Xuechang Zheng Lingang Wang |
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| description | Obtaining timely, accurate, and automated data on the spatial distribution and planting area of cotton is crucial for production management and informed trade decision-making. In this regard, remote sensing technologies are important and effective means. Methods based on machine learning, and deep learning, rely on a large number of training samples, which is time-consuming and laborious. The feature index method is limited in that the determination of the classification threshold is an obstacle to realizing automatic classification. This study proposed an automatic mapping method for cotton based on cumulative spectral, phenological characteristics, and spatial thresholds. First, an index was designed, which combined the cumulative spectral and phenological (CSP) characteristics within the cotton-growing season to effectively distinguish cotton from other features and contemporaneous crops. Second, using the maximum between-class variance method (OTSU) and Sauvola algorithms, a new local adaptive threshold method (Otsu–Sauvola) was developed for the automatic determination of the classification threshold. In this study, Xinjiang Province, with a planted area of 25 000 km<sup>2</sup> and 84.94% of China's total production, was selected as the study area, and fully automated mapping experiments were performed using Sentinel-2 time-series images at four experimental sites with different planting structures. The overall accuracies of cotton classification at the four sites were 91.20%, 90.45%, 93.00%, and 91.80%, and the F1-scores were 90.85%, 90.33%, 92.62%, and 92.26%, respectively. In the absence of samples, the accuracy of the CSP method was comparable to that of support vector machine and RF-supervised classification results, which could be realized 60–70 days before cotton harvest. The CSP method was applied to 10 major cotton-producing counties in Xinjiang, and the MRE between the CSP-detected area and the statistical area was 14.1%. Further analysis revealed that the CSP index can accurately and effectively distinguish cotton from other features and contemporaneous crops and that the Otsu–Sauvola automatic threshold method has robustness and regional consistency, thus providing an automatic and effective method for large-scale mapping of cotton in the early growing season. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-902c0aa10b1d4cb58dd729e92de7e3552025-02-12T00:00:43ZengIEEEIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing1939-14042151-15352025-01-01185046506210.1109/JSTARS.2025.352555210827816In-Season Automated Mapping of Xinjiang Cotton Based on Cumulative Spectral and Phenological CharacteristicsYongsheng Huang0https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8005-3925Yaozhong Pan1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2307-2715Yu Zhu2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3405-0909Xiufang Zhu3Xingsheng Xia4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4441-9674Qiong Chen5Jufang Hu6Hongyan Che7Xuechang Zheng8Lingang Wang9Academy of Plateau Science and Sustainability, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, ChinaAcademy of Plateau Science and Sustainability, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaAcademy of Plateau Science and Sustainability, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, ChinaAcademy of Plateau Science and Sustainability, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, ChinaQinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Geology and Environment of Salt Lakes, Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, ChinaAcademy of Plateau Science and Sustainability, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaAcademy of Plateau Science and Sustainability, Qinghai Normal University, Xining, ChinaObtaining timely, accurate, and automated data on the spatial distribution and planting area of cotton is crucial for production management and informed trade decision-making. In this regard, remote sensing technologies are important and effective means. Methods based on machine learning, and deep learning, rely on a large number of training samples, which is time-consuming and laborious. The feature index method is limited in that the determination of the classification threshold is an obstacle to realizing automatic classification. This study proposed an automatic mapping method for cotton based on cumulative spectral, phenological characteristics, and spatial thresholds. First, an index was designed, which combined the cumulative spectral and phenological (CSP) characteristics within the cotton-growing season to effectively distinguish cotton from other features and contemporaneous crops. Second, using the maximum between-class variance method (OTSU) and Sauvola algorithms, a new local adaptive threshold method (Otsu–Sauvola) was developed for the automatic determination of the classification threshold. In this study, Xinjiang Province, with a planted area of 25 000 km<sup>2</sup> and 84.94% of China's total production, was selected as the study area, and fully automated mapping experiments were performed using Sentinel-2 time-series images at four experimental sites with different planting structures. The overall accuracies of cotton classification at the four sites were 91.20%, 90.45%, 93.00%, and 91.80%, and the F1-scores were 90.85%, 90.33%, 92.62%, and 92.26%, respectively. In the absence of samples, the accuracy of the CSP method was comparable to that of support vector machine and RF-supervised classification results, which could be realized 60–70 days before cotton harvest. The CSP method was applied to 10 major cotton-producing counties in Xinjiang, and the MRE between the CSP-detected area and the statistical area was 14.1%. Further analysis revealed that the CSP index can accurately and effectively distinguish cotton from other features and contemporaneous crops and that the Otsu–Sauvola automatic threshold method has robustness and regional consistency, thus providing an automatic and effective method for large-scale mapping of cotton in the early growing season.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10827816/Automatic mappingcotton identificationcumulative spectral and phenological (CSP) characteristicsOtsu–SauvolaSentinel-2 time series |
| spellingShingle | Yongsheng Huang Yaozhong Pan Yu Zhu Xiufang Zhu Xingsheng Xia Qiong Chen Jufang Hu Hongyan Che Xuechang Zheng Lingang Wang In-Season Automated Mapping of Xinjiang Cotton Based on Cumulative Spectral and Phenological Characteristics IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing Automatic mapping cotton identification cumulative spectral and phenological (CSP) characteristics Otsu–Sauvola Sentinel-2 time series |
| title | In-Season Automated Mapping of Xinjiang Cotton Based on Cumulative Spectral and Phenological Characteristics |
| title_full | In-Season Automated Mapping of Xinjiang Cotton Based on Cumulative Spectral and Phenological Characteristics |
| title_fullStr | In-Season Automated Mapping of Xinjiang Cotton Based on Cumulative Spectral and Phenological Characteristics |
| title_full_unstemmed | In-Season Automated Mapping of Xinjiang Cotton Based on Cumulative Spectral and Phenological Characteristics |
| title_short | In-Season Automated Mapping of Xinjiang Cotton Based on Cumulative Spectral and Phenological Characteristics |
| title_sort | in season automated mapping of xinjiang cotton based on cumulative spectral and phenological characteristics |
| topic | Automatic mapping cotton identification cumulative spectral and phenological (CSP) characteristics Otsu–Sauvola Sentinel-2 time series |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10827816/ |
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