Mapping farming practices in Belgian intensive cropping systems from Sentinel-1 SAR times-series
(2016) Living Planet Symposium 2016 — Location: Prague, Czech Republic (9.May.2016)
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- The environmental impact of the so-called conventional farming system calls for new farming practices reducing negative externalities. Emerging farming practices such as no-till and new inter-cropping management are promising tracks. The development of methods to characterize crop management across an entire region and to understand their spatial dimension offers opportunities to accompany the transition towards a more sustainable agriculture. This research takes advantage of the unmatched polarimetric and temporal resolutions of Sentinel-1 SAR Cband to develop a method to identify farming practices at the parcel level. To this end, the detection of changes in backscattering due to surface roughness modification (tillage, inter-crop cover destruction ...) is used to detect the farming management. The final results are compared to a reference dataset collected through an intensive field campaign. Finally, the performances are discussed in the perspective of practices monitoring of cropping systems through remote sensing.
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Chomé, G., Baret, P., & Defourny, P. (2016). Mapping farming practices in Belgian intensive cropping systems from Sentinel-1 SAR times-series. Proceedings of Living Planet Symposium 2016. Published. Living Planet Symposium 2016, Prague, Czech Republic. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/227100