Author(s): TRABAQUINI, K.; LUIZ, A. J. B.; EBERHARDT, I. D. R.; SCHULTZ, B.; FORMAGGIO, A. R.; ATZBERGER, C.

Summary: Abstract: Brazil still has not a system based in earth observation images to map and monitoring the aimed crops in large scale. Many programs have been made with Landsat-like and MODIS data to monitoring crops in Brazil, but only the CANASAT has worked in operation level. The clouds and unit products (UPS) size in Brazil, have not permitted the use these data to correct classify maize, sugarcane and soybean. The use of sample frame and visual pixels classification with multitemporal OLI images could be a solution to monitor these three crops. The goal of this study was evaluate the sample frame performance to maize (c1), soybean (c2) and sugarcane (c3) in Paraná (PR) State using OLI images and pixel visual classification. Were used four periods to classify 20.000 random pixels over all the Paraná State: (p1) Nov/Dec, (p2) Jan/Feb, (p3) Mar/Apr and (p4) May/Jun. Each period was compost for 4 OLI images, and 5.000 pixels were classified as c1, c2, c3 and others. IBGE data from 2012 were used to determinate the number of random pixels in each PR mesoregion/stratum. The Stratified Random Sample by Maximum Corrected (SRSMC) showed good performance for tree crops. The coefficient of variation (CV) for each period ranged of 1.42 for soybean in p2 until 16.87 for soybean in p4. The sugarcane CVs have not varied ( and maize CV had the minimum value (2.16) in p4.

Publication year: 2015

Types of publication: Paper in annals and proceedings

Unit: Embrapa Environment

Keywords: Agricultura, Agricultural statistics, Amostragem estatística, Estatística agrícola, Romote sensing, Sampling, Sensoriamento Remoto, Statistical sampling, agriculture, remote sensing