Accuracy of mustard and wheat inventory at village-level using liss-II digital data in pali district, Rajasthan

A study was carried out to estimate the accuracy of crop discrimination and area inventory for wheat and mustard using IRS LISS-II digital data of two acquisition dates D1 (Dec. 28, 1994) and D2 (Feb. 10, 1995) over a test site (1413 ha) comprising of two villages in Pali district, Rajasthan, The D1 and D2 were optimal acquisitions for mustard and wheat respectively with deviations in aereage estimates of less than five per cent in comparison to field survey. The percent correctly classified pixels ter training site for optimal dates of each crop ranged between 85 and 86 per cent and they were much lower for other dates. These results with lower accuracies than reported earlier for sites with single dominant crop are indicative of accuracies for discrimination and area inventory fot sites having two crops and also sensitivity to acquisition period.