Determination of Potato Crop Cultivation in Hamedan Province, Using time
series Satellite Images IRSP6
Abstract
Potato is an important commodity in terms of nutrition basket. Lack of
knowledge of this situation specially production level of this staple
product has led to un-sustainability in supply and demand so that both
consumer and producer or farmer subjects to this un-consistency.by
considering potato agronomical calendar and its difference with main
commodities such as wheat and barley , we tried to identify and estimate
area under cropping potato farms in Hamedan province where are the
production domain of this staple using remote sensing techniques and
Awifs image time series from IRSP6 satellite. For that reason Awifs time
series imaging was used for determine potato cropping area. Results of
elementary investigation showed that we need three time series images
due to difference in planting, maintaining and harvesting of this yield
and others regions main crops including alfalfa, wheat and barley
because of climate variations. hence in three intervals 27 April, when
we see green vegetation of alfalfa and wheat,18 July when potato has
been grew completely at Hamedan and Bahar counties but at Razan and
Kabudrahang counties we see complete growth of them at 16 Agust
,up-to-date images of region ordered and prepared as organized manner.
Necessary processing such as preparation, atmospheric and geometric
correction, vegetation index, un-supervised classification were
conducted using suitable training sites in different images of
supervised classification on the images. each image was classified into
9 class including: plowing classes, water, vegetation, un-arable lands,
lime lands, mountains, salty lands, metropolitan and farrow).phase
classification method could identify farms and rangelands, but it was
unable to distinguish all of potato farms from others crops using image
classification due to close similarity between potato spectral refection
percentage and other simultaneous crops at greenness period. therefore
three time intervals were used for distinguish area under potato
cropping using classified maps so that first vegetation classification
extracted from three classified maps and then vegetation map resulted
from 18 July image which was include alfalfa, potato, orchards and
nursery land uses to obtain potato cropping area in Hamedan and Bahar
counties using vegetation class of 27 April image which included wheat,
barley, orchard and nursery and without potato masked and area under
potato cropping in two counties was estimated. To obtain potato cropping
area in Razan and Kabudrahang vegetation result from 16 Agust image
which included alfalfa, orchard,nursery and potato was masked using
vegetation map resulted from April 27 which included wheat, barley,
alfalfa, orchardS ,nursery and without potato and area under cropped was
determined. Following integration of these two layers, studied area
under cropping map prepared using phase classification method. Also by
vegetation indices NDVI and SAVI , area under cropping of three main
crop yie