and cotton extraction plays an important role in effective and controllable agricultural management. Multi-temporal remote sensing images have been widely used in cotton extraction
but these studies mainly focused on sole features
such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). An effective method of integrated multi-features based on multi-temporal Landsat 8 images was proposed to extract cotton information.In this study
we chose north-central Shawan County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region as the study area. Nine images taken by Landsat 8 in 2013 were collected for cotton extraction. NDVI time series were generated to characterize the phenological pattern of each land cover type. The optimal temporal reflectance image was selectedby analyzing the difference in NDVI profile between cotton and other crop types. Texture features were calculated by the gray-level co-occurrence matrix method. NDVI time series
optimal temporal reflectance image
and texture features were combined as the original classification features. When the training samples were sufficient
butthe featureswereexcessive
the classification accuracy may decrease because of redundant information. We completed feature selection by using the rough set method and then obtained the selective features of the original features. The NDVI time series
original features
and selective features were used for classification by the support vector machine. The cotton distribution map was generated based on the classification result of the highest accuracy. Finally
we evaluated the accuracy of classification results by confusion matrix.①The selection of the optimal temporal reflectance image for cotton identification is important
and the optimum phase of this studyis on September 4. In this period
wheat was harvested; corn and sunflower were in the mature period; andcotton was in the blossom period. Significant differences were observed among these crops in the optimum phase. ②The original features achieved accuracies of 87.4% and 87.93% for cotton producers and users
respectively
and the overall accuracy was 92.81%. Compared with the classification results of the NDVI time series
the overall accuracy increased by 5.53% and the accuracy of cotton producers increased by 5.05%.Moreover
the classification accuracies of other land cover types increased to varying extents. ③The selective features achieved accuracies of 92.73% and 90.36% for cotton producers and users
respectively
and the overall accuracy was 93.66%. Compared with the classification results of the original features
the overall accuracy increased by 0.85% and the accuracy of cotton producers increased by 5.33%.Experiments showed that feature selection by the rough set method not only improved the classification accuracy but also effectively reduced the classification complexity. The proposed method achieved an accuracy of 92.73% for cotton extraction. The method of integrated multi-features based on multi-temporal Landsat 8 images is promising for crop extraction
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