Rice cropping sequence mapping in the tropical monsoon zone via agronomic knowledge graphs integrating phenology and remote sensing

Rice cropping sequence mapping via multitemporal remote sensing and agronomic techniques provides critical geoinformatics for agroecosystem modeling. The East Asian tropical monsoon region is an important rice-growing area, and the regional food security depends on efficient rice mapping. Frequent c...

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Main Authors: Hongzhang Nie, Yingchen Lin, Wenfei Luo, Guilin Liu
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-07-01
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author Hongzhang Nie
Yingchen Lin
Wenfei Luo
Guilin Liu
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Wenfei Luo
Guilin Liu
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description Rice cropping sequence mapping via multitemporal remote sensing and agronomic techniques provides critical geoinformatics for agroecosystem modeling. The East Asian tropical monsoon region is an important rice-growing area, and the regional food security depends on efficient rice mapping. Frequent cloud cover during the rainy season leads to insufficient available optical remote sensing images that cover the growth stages of rice, which renders remote sensing-derived rice identification difficult. Thus, we proposed a simple and efficient strategy from an agronomic knowledge graph perspective in which specific phenological events of rice and Landsat/Sentinel-2 time series were employed to extract different rice cropping sequences on the Leizhou Peninsula (China). Then, a control group and five experimental groups were established by integrating spectral features via pixel- and object-based random forest (RF) algorithms. The results revealed that five key phenological events could be obtained for rice cropping sequence identification in the study area. The overall accuracy of the pixel-based classification results ranged from 83.48 % to 92.49 %, whereas that of the object-based classification results ranged from 84.98 % to 92.80 %. These findings indicate that efficient rice cultivation mapping via optical remote sensing data requires the selection of specific time windows corresponding to phenological events to benefit rice cultivation monitoring and regional agroecosystem sustainability.
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spelling doaj-art-23a47d84fd2e4f779dc0b19b616f55632025-08-20T03:10:29ZengElsevierEcological Informatics1574-95412025-07-018710307510.1016/j.ecoinf.2025.103075Rice cropping sequence mapping in the tropical monsoon zone via agronomic knowledge graphs integrating phenology and remote sensingHongzhang Nie0Yingchen Lin1Wenfei Luo2Guilin Liu3School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, ChinaSchool of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, ChinaSchool of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China; Corresponding author.Rice cropping sequence mapping via multitemporal remote sensing and agronomic techniques provides critical geoinformatics for agroecosystem modeling. The East Asian tropical monsoon region is an important rice-growing area, and the regional food security depends on efficient rice mapping. Frequent cloud cover during the rainy season leads to insufficient available optical remote sensing images that cover the growth stages of rice, which renders remote sensing-derived rice identification difficult. Thus, we proposed a simple and efficient strategy from an agronomic knowledge graph perspective in which specific phenological events of rice and Landsat/Sentinel-2 time series were employed to extract different rice cropping sequences on the Leizhou Peninsula (China). Then, a control group and five experimental groups were established by integrating spectral features via pixel- and object-based random forest (RF) algorithms. The results revealed that five key phenological events could be obtained for rice cropping sequence identification in the study area. The overall accuracy of the pixel-based classification results ranged from 83.48 % to 92.49 %, whereas that of the object-based classification results ranged from 84.98 % to 92.80 %. These findings indicate that efficient rice cultivation mapping via optical remote sensing data requires the selection of specific time windows corresponding to phenological events to benefit rice cultivation monitoring and regional agroecosystem sustainability.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954125000846Agronomic knowledge graphsPhenology eventsRandom forestPixel- and object-based classification
spellingShingle Hongzhang Nie
Yingchen Lin
Wenfei Luo
Guilin Liu
Rice cropping sequence mapping in the tropical monsoon zone via agronomic knowledge graphs integrating phenology and remote sensing
Ecological Informatics
Agronomic knowledge graphs
Phenology events
Random forest
Pixel- and object-based classification
title Rice cropping sequence mapping in the tropical monsoon zone via agronomic knowledge graphs integrating phenology and remote sensing
title_full Rice cropping sequence mapping in the tropical monsoon zone via agronomic knowledge graphs integrating phenology and remote sensing
title_fullStr Rice cropping sequence mapping in the tropical monsoon zone via agronomic knowledge graphs integrating phenology and remote sensing
title_full_unstemmed Rice cropping sequence mapping in the tropical monsoon zone via agronomic knowledge graphs integrating phenology and remote sensing
title_short Rice cropping sequence mapping in the tropical monsoon zone via agronomic knowledge graphs integrating phenology and remote sensing
title_sort rice cropping sequence mapping in the tropical monsoon zone via agronomic knowledge graphs integrating phenology and remote sensing
topic Agronomic knowledge graphs
Phenology events
Random forest
Pixel- and object-based classification
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954125000846
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