基于两个独立抽样框架的农作物种植面积遥感估算方法

通过分析遥感技术在中国农作物种植面积估算中所遇到的难点 ,针对运行化的农作物遥感估产系统对主要农作物种植面积估算的需求 ,提出在农作物种植结构区划的基础上 ,采用整群抽样和样条采样技术相结合的方法 ,进行农作物种植面积估算。整群抽样技术利用遥感影像估算农作物总种植成数 ,样条采样是一种适合中国农作物种植结构特征的采样技术 ,用于调查不同农作物类别在所有播种作物中的分类成数。在中国现有的耕地数据库基础上 ,根据两次抽样获得的成数 ,计算得到具体某一种农作物类别的种植面积。最后给出了 2 0 0 3年早稻种植面积估算的实例。

Crop Acreage Estimation Using Two Individual Sampling Frameworks with Stratification

Crop plots are very small in China due to special farm-use rules. Image classification techniques are limited in cropacreage survey using remote sensing. In this paper, we analyze this problem and provide a substitute methodology to estimatecrop acreage.In thismethodology, crop stratification is fundamentd. Proportional ofmain croptypes aswell as physical factorsoftempera-ture, precipitation, soil type and sun radiation are considered. There are about 11 strata in China at the first level based onphysical factors, 44 strata at the second level based on crop proportion and 102 strata atthe third level based on arable land in-tensity.Two individual sampling frameworks are used. The cluster sampling is used to estimate the proportion of planted area onarable landwithremote sensingdata, mostlyLandsatandRadarsatdata, currentlyalsoENVISATASARdata are used.The clus-ters are defined as a map sheet at a scale of 1:1:100 000 (about 1/16 LandsatTMscene). And images are selected based oncluster sample randomly for each crop season. After atmospheric correction, geometric correction non-arable land masking, re-motely sensed images are classified by ISODATAunsupervised classification, and thenthe planted areas are labeled by consider-ingNDVIvalue. The planted area proportions are calculated for each stratum.The transect sampling framework is used to estimate the proportions of different crop type within planted area. To identifythe crop proportion of a small parcel, field works should be used since it is impossible to make crop classification with remotesensing data cost-effectively. The transect sampling actually is a two-stage sampling. In the first stage, PSUs are selected ran-domly on a 4km×4km area frame. In the second stage, the selected PSUs are sampled only along the roadwithin PSUs, calledtransect line.The samplingworks inthe field are totake pictures alongthe roadwithinPSUswith100 mbuffer, and aGVGsys-tem is designed for this purpose. Proportions of every crop type are calculated for each stratum.Crop acreages are calculated under the support of current arable database. For every crop type, the planted acreage is thearable area multiply by planted proportion and crop type proportion of stratum.The estimation of early rice acreage in 2003 in China is presented as a case study. Results showthismethodology is feasi-ble. This methodology has adopted in China since 1998. And the experience shows that the stratification schema is efficiency,and the two individual sample frameworks can generate accurate estimation of crop acreage.