Hyperspectral Imaging and Stress Mapping in Agriculture: A Case Study on Wheat in Beauce (France)
Introduction
In the context of a growing interest for remote sensing applied to vegetation studies [see, e.g., reviews by Verstraete et al. (1996) or Moran et al. (1997); and references therein], we investigate the possibilities of hyperspectral imaging observations for the extraction of information relevant to agriculture.
Such data have already proven to be relevant to many requirements of agricultural monitoring. These include, for instance, the mapping of vegetation species and classifications Foody and Cox 1994, Clark et al. 1995, Erol and Akdeniz 1996, Grignetti et al. 1997, vegetation coverage or density Huete 1986, Roberts et al. 1993, Jasinski 1996, Pax-Lenney and Woodcock 1997, or crop yield predictions (MacDonald and Hall, 1980; Clevers, 1997). But only a few of these studies (e.g., Clark et al. 1995, Clevers 1997) have addressed crop growth and development using the mapping aspect provided by imagery.
In this article we explore, in a case study of wheat fields in France, some methods that are able to trace crop evolution among several cultivated parcels and to provide the spatial distribution of parameters relevant to agricultural studies.
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Airborne Hyperspectral Data
Hyperspectral data were acquired by the Daedalus Multispectral Infrared and Visible Imaging Spectrometer (MIVIS), flown by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) of Italy, during a campaign in the Beauce region of France in 1996. The present work concerns an agricultural area (about 2×4 km, cf. Fig. 1) managed by the French Institut Technique des Céréales et des Fourrages (ITCF), in the vicinity of Boigneville, on 29 May.
Measurements of the first spectrometer (“optical port 1”: visible
Data analysis
In the aim of extracting some relevant information from the remotely sensed data, we have linked two methods in current use in hyperspectral analysis, in a coupled approach. First, a principal component analysis (cf., e.g., Johnson and Wichern, 1982), or PCA, leads to an understanding of the spectral variability contained in the data and of its spatial organization in the scene of study. It allows us to determine the main spectral trends and the extreme spectral classes (endmembers) which best
Stress Mapping
To understand more precisely the meaning of the fractions, the observed spectra of several pixels representing varying W1 and W2 fractions are plotted in Figure 5, for different ranges of soil fraction (0–5%, 5–10%, 10–15%, >15%). It shows that the spectrum varies continuously, with a shallowing of the absorption band in the range 0.54–0.70 μm and a darkening at greater wavelengths, as W1 fraction value decreases. This behavior, which is globally related to a continuous decrease of the
Conclusion
This study shows the capability of linear spectral mixture modeling, combined with a principal component analysis, to access relevant agricultural or agronomic information in a natural scene. This analysis leads to the decomposition of the detected spectrum into several constituents, and allows us to discard soil and shade contributions from the vegetation spectrum. The method also provides a relevant tool for the detection of the presence of some stresses (e.g., hydrous and nitric), giving the
Acknowledgements
The campaign of data acquirements with the MIVIS instrument, and ground-truth measurements, in 1996 has been jointly supported by Matra Marconi Space France (MMS), the French Institut Technique des Céréales et des Fourrages (ITCF), and the French Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA).
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