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Fraction Cover with Drone and Sentinel-2 DATA

Ajay Kumar Maurya, Dharmendra Singh, K. P. Singh
ajay03900@gmail.com, dharmfec@gmail.com, kpsingh.ece@iitbhu.ac.in
Microwave Imaging and Space Technology Application Lab., Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

Introduction Results
 Fractional vegetation cover (FVC) is defined as the proportion of the horizontal estimated
area of green vegetation to the total area of interest.
 Three basic methods are available to estimate FVC using optical data, which includes
physical model, pixel un-mixing model, and empirical model. Empirical model is an
efficient method for FVC measurement, but one of the disadvantage is that, its accuracy
depends upon the available ground truth information of FVC.
 Nowadays drone is used for precision agriculture monitoring, and can be used for precise
measurement of ground truth information of FVC .
 Sentinel-2 optical data is freely available and has very high temporal and spatial
resolution. This is scientifically the best opportunity to fuse this data with drone images
and develop an optimized algorithm to monitor agriculture areas.
Objectives Fig. 4 FVC measurement on 12th September 2017 dataset using (a) developed model
(b) dimidiate pixel model
• Precise measurement of ground truth FVC using drone images.
• Development of a model for FVC measurement using sentinel-2 data.
Study Area and Satellite Data Used
Study Area – Agriculture field near Roorkee city of Haridwar district in Uttarakhand state,
India.
Coordinates – Study area is bounded by 29.9813N and 29.783295N latitude, and 77.80854E
and 78.0757E longitude respectively
Dataset Used – Sentinel-2 satellite data and drone images which are taken during ground
truth survey on 12th September 2017 are used for development of algorithm, and another
dataset acquired on 07th October 2017 is used for validation of the algorithm.

Fig. 5 Scatterplot between(a) developed model and field measured FVC(RMSE=0.10)

(b) dimidiate pixel model and field measured FVC (RMSE=0.17)

Fig. 1.(a) Sentinel-2 FCC (NIR, Red, and Green) image of study area (b) FCC subset of
sampling site (c) Drone gridded subset image of sampling site Fig. 6 (a) FVC measurement using developed algorithm on 7th October 2017 dataset (b)
scatterplot between observed FVC using developed algorithm and filed measured FVC
Theoretical Background and Model Development with Implementation (RMSE=0.097)
 Gridding of 10m x 10m (250 pixels) are
overlaid over the drone image equivalent to Conclusions
sentinel 2-pixel size.
 A fusion approach of drone and satellite data is proposed for vegetation fractional cover
 Vegetation fractional cover (FVC) are
estimation.
estimated for every grid by using following
 Drone data is used for precise ground truth FVC measurement, and this precisely
equation
No. of Vegetation Pixel measured FVC are used to develop a sigmoid relationship between NDVI and FVC.
FVC=  Developed model can be used to measure for large-scale FVC estimation using Sentinel-
Total No. of Pixel 2 data.
 Different vegetation indices are calculated  Estimated FVC is also validated with ground truth information and well-known
using sentinel-2 data, suitable index is techniques like dimidiate pixel model.
decided for FVC measurement on the basis of
obtained R-square value in the correlation
with Drone FVC. Acknowledgement
Vegetation Equation R-Square Authors are thankful to SAC ISRO, Ahmedabad and Railtel, Delhi and for providing
Fig. 2 Flow Chart of the Proposed Methodology
Index financial support to this work and ESA for providing the data for this work.
NDVI y=2.75x-0.3964 0.91

SAVI y=12.70x-1.03 0.64

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