Land-Cover Mapping of Agricultural Areas Using Machine Learning in Google Earth Engine

Florencia Hastings; Ignacio Fuentes; Mario Perez-Bidegain; Rafael Navas; Angela Gorgoglione

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58811-3_52

Land-Cover Mapping of Agricultural Areas Using Machine Learning in Google Earth Engine

Florencia Hastings, Ignacio Fuentes, Mario Perez-Bidegain, Rafael Navas, Angela Gorgoglione

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Abstract

Land-cover mapping is critically needed in land-use planning and policy making. Compared to other techniques, Google Earth Engine (GEE) offers a free cloud of satellite information and high computation capabilities. In this context, this article examines machine learning with GEE for land-cover mapping. For this purpose, a five-phase procedure is applied: (1) imagery selection and pre-processing, (2) selection of the classes and training samples, (3) classification process, (4) post-classification, and (5) validation. The study region is located in the San Salvador basin (Uruguay), which is under agricultural intensification. As a result, the 1990 land-cover map of the San Salvador basin is produced. The new map shows good agreements with past agriculture census and reveals the transformation of grassland to cropland in the period 1990–2018.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020 - 20th International Conference, Proceedings
Editors	Osvaldo Gervasi, Beniamino Murgante, Sanjay Misra, Chiara Garau, Ivan Blecic, David Taniar, Bernady O. Apduhan, Ana Maria A.C. Rocha, Eufemia Tarantino, Carmelo Maria Torre, Yeliz Karaca
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	721-736
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Print)	9783030588106
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58811-3_52
State	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	20th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2020 - Cagliari, Italy Duration: 1 Jul 2020 → 4 Jul 2020

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	12252 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	20th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2020
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Cagliari
Period	1/07/20 → 4/07/20

Keywords

Agricultural region
Google earth engine
Land-cover map
Supervised classification

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Hastings, F., Fuentes, I., Perez-Bidegain, M., Navas, R., & Gorgoglione, A. (2020). Land-Cover Mapping of Agricultural Areas Using Machine Learning in Google Earth Engine. In O. Gervasi, B. Murgante, S. Misra, C. Garau, I. Blecic, D. Taniar, B. O. Apduhan, A. M. A. C. Rocha, E. Tarantino, C. M. Torre, & Y. Karaca (Eds.), Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020 - 20th International Conference, Proceedings (pp. 721-736). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12252 LNCS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58811-3_52

Hastings, Florencia ; Fuentes, Ignacio ; Perez-Bidegain, Mario et al. / Land-Cover Mapping of Agricultural Areas Using Machine Learning in Google Earth Engine. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020 - 20th International Conference, Proceedings. editor / Osvaldo Gervasi ; Beniamino Murgante ; Sanjay Misra ; Chiara Garau ; Ivan Blecic ; David Taniar ; Bernady O. Apduhan ; Ana Maria A.C. Rocha ; Eufemia Tarantino ; Carmelo Maria Torre ; Yeliz Karaca. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020. pp. 721-736 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Hastings, F, Fuentes, I, Perez-Bidegain, M, Navas, R & Gorgoglione, A 2020, Land-Cover Mapping of Agricultural Areas Using Machine Learning in Google Earth Engine. in O Gervasi, B Murgante, S Misra, C Garau, I Blecic, D Taniar, BO Apduhan, AMAC Rocha, E Tarantino, CM Torre & Y Karaca (eds), Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020 - 20th International Conference, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 12252 LNCS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 721-736, 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2020, Cagliari, Italy, 1/07/20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58811-3_52

Land-Cover Mapping of Agricultural Areas Using Machine Learning in Google Earth Engine. / Hastings, Florencia; Fuentes, Ignacio; Perez-Bidegain, Mario et al.
Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020 - 20th International Conference, Proceedings. ed. / Osvaldo Gervasi; Beniamino Murgante; Sanjay Misra; Chiara Garau; Ivan Blecic; David Taniar; Bernady O. Apduhan; Ana Maria A.C. Rocha; Eufemia Tarantino; Carmelo Maria Torre; Yeliz Karaca. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020. p. 721-736 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12252 LNCS).

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Hastings F, Fuentes I, Perez-Bidegain M, Navas R, Gorgoglione A. Land-Cover Mapping of Agricultural Areas Using Machine Learning in Google Earth Engine. In Gervasi O, Murgante B, Misra S, Garau C, Blecic I, Taniar D, Apduhan BO, Rocha AMAC, Tarantino E, Torre CM, Karaca Y, editors, Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020 - 20th International Conference, Proceedings. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2020. p. 721-736. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-58811-3_52

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