smartAKIS Dataset

Castillejo-González, I.L.; Peña-Barragán, J.M.; Jurado-Expósito, M.; Mesas-Carrascosa, F.J.; López-Granados, F.

This paper compares of pixel- and object-based techniques for mapping wild oat weed patches in wheat fields using multi-spectral QuickBird satellite imagery for site-specific weed management. The research was conducted at two levels: (1) at the field level, on 11 and 15 individual infested wheat fields in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and (2) on a broader level, by analysing the entire 2006 and 2008 images. To evaluate the wild oat patches mapping at the field level, both pixel- and object-based image analyses were tested with six classification algorithms: Parallelepipeds (P), Mahalanobis Distance (MD), Maximum Likelihood (ML), Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM), Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Decision Tree (DT). The results showed that weed patches could be accurately detected with both analyses obtaining global accuracies between 80% and 99% for most of the fields.