Monitoring of winter wheat growth in categories of frost damage and production potential using SAR and optical images**

images practical purposes. Sentinel-1 polarizations spring frost field variability logistic regression model
["Laznicka, Milos","Tuma, Lukas","Vandirkova, Vera","Wohlmuthova, Marie","Kotek, Martin","Kumhala, Frantisek","Kumhalova, Jitka"] 2025-01-01 期刊论文
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Remote sensing plays an increasingly important role in agriculture, especially in monitoring the quality of agricultural crops. Optical sensing is often limited in Central Europe due to cloud cover; therefore, synthetic aperture radar data is increasingly being used. However, synthetic aperture radar data is limited by more difficult interpretation mainly due to the influence of speckles. For this reason, its use is often limited to larger territorial units and field blocks. The main aim of this study therefore was to verify the possibility of using satellite synthetic aperture radar images to assess the within-field variability of winter wheat. The lowest radar vegetation index values corresponded to the area of the lowest production potential and the greatest damage to the stand. Also for VH and VV polarizations, the highest values corresponded to the area of the lowest stand quality. Qualitative changes in the stand across the zones defined by frost damage and production potential were assessed with the help of the logistic regression model with resampled data for 10, 50, and 100 m pixel size. The best correlation coefficients were achieved at a spatial resolution of 50 m for both options. The F-score still yielded a promising result ranging from 0.588 to 0.634 for frost damage categories. The regression model of the production potential performed slightly better in terms of the F-score, recall, and precision at higher resolutions. It was proved that modern statistical methods could be used to reduce problems associated with speckles of radar images for practical purposes.
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