Mapping arable/grassland land cover changes by satellite

Author

Slater, J. ; Askew, D.

Author_Institution

ADAS, Cambridge, UK

Volume

2

fYear

34881

fDate

10-14 Jul1995

Firstpage

1526

Abstract

This paper describes the results of a project assessing the suitability of satellite imagery for Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) monitoring. A system has been developed to improve the accuracy of land cover map updating, using satellite imagery and other digital data sources. Aerial photography and Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) satellite imagery have been compared as data sources for updating land cover maps of the Broads ESA; and the strengths and weakness of imagery as a data source identified. ERS-1 SAR imagery can be used in the map updating process to reduce the ambiguity of deciding whether grass cover implies permanent grassland or grass in arable rotation

Keywords

agriculture; geophysical techniques; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; Broads; ESA; Environmentally Sensitive Area; Landsat Thematic Mapper; Norfolk England; SAR imagery; UK; agriculture; arable; farmland; geophysical measurement technique; grass cover; grassland land cover change; land surface; map updating; optical imaging; radar remote sensing; satellite imagery; terrain mapping; vegetation mapping; visible IR; Agriculture; Aquaculture; Costs; Image analysis; Monitoring; Photography; Production; Remote monitoring; Remote sensing; Rivers; Satellites;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 1995. IGARSS '95. 'Quantitative Remote Sensing for Science and Applications', International

Conference_Location

Firenze

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2567-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1995.521799

Filename

521799