UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION OF SMALLHOLDER FIELDS IN MOZAMBIQUE USING PLANETSCOPE IMAGERY

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Smallholders produce about a third of the global crop production. Supporting these smallholder farms is an important lever for poverty alleviation. Farm and field sizes are key indicators of many smallholder dynamics, including fragmentation, farm consolidation, and interactions between smallholders, medium-scale commercial farming, and large enterprises. Despite the socio-economic, environmental, and political importance of these dynamics, spatially explicit data on farms and field sizes are still lacking. Identifying small-scale agriculture using satellite imagery is challenging due to the heterogeneity in the crop types and management practices. This study compared three unsupervised segmentation approaches that have not been widely explored for delineating smallholder fields: mean shift, multiresolution segmentation, and simple non-iterative clustering (SNIC), using PlanetScope imagery. The study area is located in northern Mozambique, where 71% of the farms cover less than 2 ha. The results were evaluated using four segmentation accuracy metrics based on object geometries: Area Fit Index (AFI), Quality Rate (QR), Oversegmentation (OS), and Undersegmentation (US). The results showed that the multiresolution segmentation algorithm outperformed the other methods to delineate smallholder fields. This work will support future regional-scale mapping efforts.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftInternational Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives
Vol/bind43
Udgave nummerB3-2022
Sider (fra-til)975-981
Antal sider7
ISSN1682-1750
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2022
Begivenhed2022 24th ISPRS Congress on Imaging Today, Foreseeing Tomorrow, Commission III - Nice, Frankrig
Varighed: 6 jun. 202211 jun. 2022

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Konference2022 24th ISPRS Congress on Imaging Today, Foreseeing Tomorrow, Commission III
LandFrankrig
ByNice
Periode06/06/202211/06/2022

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Funding Information:
This research was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant agreement No 677140 MIDLAND) and the FRS-FNRS (grant no. T.0154.21).

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