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Mapping Irrigated Areas of Northeast China in Comparison to Natural Vegetation

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Zeitschriftentitel: Remote Sensing
Personen und Körperschaften: Xiang, Kunlun, Ma, Minna, Liu, Wei, Dong, Jie, Zhu, Xiufang, Yuan, Wenping
In: Remote Sensing, 11, 2019, 7, S. 825
Medientyp: E-Article
Sprache: Englisch
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Zusammenfassung: <jats:p>Accurate information about the location and extent of irrigation is fundamental to many aspects of food security and water resource management. This study develops a new method for identifying irrigation in northeastern China by comparing canopy moisture between the cropland and adjacent natural ecosystems (i.e., forests). This method is based on two basic assumptions, which we validated using field survey data. First, the canopy moisture of irrigated cropland, indicated by a satellite-based land surface water index (LSWI), is higher than that of the adjacent forest. Second, the difference in LSWI between irrigation cropland and forest is larger in arid regions than in humid regions. Based on the field survey and statistical dataset, our method performed well in indicating spatial variations of irrigated areas. Results from this study suggest that our method is a promising tool for mapping irrigated areas, as it is a general and repeatable method that does not rely on training samples and can be applied to other regions.</jats:p>
Umfang: 825
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs11070825