Analysis of spectral measurements in paddy rice field: Implications for land use classification

Abstract

Rice is one of the most produced crops in the world consumed by over half of the entire population according to the FAOSTAT (2008). In addition to the agricultural value of rice, paddy-farming method used to grow rice raises a number of environmental issues, such as methane emissions and high fresh water consumption, associated with the production of rice. Monitoring of paddy fields at large scale is thus important to investigate their impacts on available water resources and greenhouse gas emissions as well as to predict and plan rice production of the year. Due to the unique spectral features of paddy rice fields during the transplanting season (i.e., strong signals in the short-wave infra..