Fast Dynamic Time Warping and Hierarchical Clustering with Multispectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar Temporal Analysis for Unsupervised Winter Food Crop Mapping
Food sustainability has become a major global concern in recent years. Multiple complimentary strategies to deal with this issue have been developed; one of these approaches is regenerative farming. The identification and analysis of crop type phenology are required to achieve sustainable regenerati...
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| description | Food sustainability has become a major global concern in recent years. Multiple complimentary strategies to deal with this issue have been developed; one of these approaches is regenerative farming. The identification and analysis of crop type phenology are required to achieve sustainable regenerative faming. Earth Observation (EO) data have been widely applied to crop type identification using supervised Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) classifications, but these methods commonly rely on large amounts of ground truth data, which usually prevent historical analysis and may be impractical in very remote, very extensive or politically unstable regions. Thus, the development of a robust but intelligent unsupervised classification model is attractive for the long-term and sustainable prediction of agricultural yields. Here, we propose FastDTW-HC, a combination of Fast Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and Hierarchical Clustering (HC), as a significantly improved method that requires no ground truth input for the classification of winter food crop varieties of barley, wheat and rapeseed, in Norfolk, UK. A series of variables is first derived from the EO products, and these include spectral indices from Sentinel-2 multispectral data and backscattered amplitude values at dual polarisations from Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. Then, the phenological patterns of winter barley, winter wheat and winter rapeseed are analysed using the FastDTW-HC applied to the time-series created for each variable, between Nov 2019 and June 2020. Future research will extend this winter food crop mapping analysis using FastDTW-HC modelling to a regional scale. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0a9952cbd40848bfb5d0bec624fb81702025-01-10T13:13:38ZengMDPI AGAgriculture2077-04722025-01-011518210.3390/agriculture15010082Fast Dynamic Time Warping and Hierarchical Clustering with Multispectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar Temporal Analysis for Unsupervised Winter Food Crop MappingHsuan-Yi Li0James A. Lawarence1Philippa J. Mason2Richard C. Ghail3Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Skempton Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UKDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Skempton Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UKDepartment of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UKDepartment of Earth Sciences, Queens Building 245, Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UKFood sustainability has become a major global concern in recent years. Multiple complimentary strategies to deal with this issue have been developed; one of these approaches is regenerative farming. The identification and analysis of crop type phenology are required to achieve sustainable regenerative faming. Earth Observation (EO) data have been widely applied to crop type identification using supervised Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) classifications, but these methods commonly rely on large amounts of ground truth data, which usually prevent historical analysis and may be impractical in very remote, very extensive or politically unstable regions. Thus, the development of a robust but intelligent unsupervised classification model is attractive for the long-term and sustainable prediction of agricultural yields. Here, we propose FastDTW-HC, a combination of Fast Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and Hierarchical Clustering (HC), as a significantly improved method that requires no ground truth input for the classification of winter food crop varieties of barley, wheat and rapeseed, in Norfolk, UK. A series of variables is first derived from the EO products, and these include spectral indices from Sentinel-2 multispectral data and backscattered amplitude values at dual polarisations from Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. Then, the phenological patterns of winter barley, winter wheat and winter rapeseed are analysed using the FastDTW-HC applied to the time-series created for each variable, between Nov 2019 and June 2020. Future research will extend this winter food crop mapping analysis using FastDTW-HC modelling to a regional scale.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/15/1/82winter cropsunsupervised machine learningdynamic time warpinghierarchical clusteringSentinel-1Sentinel-2 |
| spellingShingle | Hsuan-Yi Li James A. Lawarence Philippa J. Mason Richard C. Ghail Fast Dynamic Time Warping and Hierarchical Clustering with Multispectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar Temporal Analysis for Unsupervised Winter Food Crop Mapping Agriculture winter crops unsupervised machine learning dynamic time warping hierarchical clustering Sentinel-1 Sentinel-2 |
| title | Fast Dynamic Time Warping and Hierarchical Clustering with Multispectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar Temporal Analysis for Unsupervised Winter Food Crop Mapping |
| title_full | Fast Dynamic Time Warping and Hierarchical Clustering with Multispectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar Temporal Analysis for Unsupervised Winter Food Crop Mapping |
| title_fullStr | Fast Dynamic Time Warping and Hierarchical Clustering with Multispectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar Temporal Analysis for Unsupervised Winter Food Crop Mapping |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fast Dynamic Time Warping and Hierarchical Clustering with Multispectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar Temporal Analysis for Unsupervised Winter Food Crop Mapping |
| title_short | Fast Dynamic Time Warping and Hierarchical Clustering with Multispectral and Synthetic Aperture Radar Temporal Analysis for Unsupervised Winter Food Crop Mapping |
| title_sort | fast dynamic time warping and hierarchical clustering with multispectral and synthetic aperture radar temporal analysis for unsupervised winter food crop mapping |
| topic | winter crops unsupervised machine learning dynamic time warping hierarchical clustering Sentinel-1 Sentinel-2 |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/15/1/82 |
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