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Determining Antecedent Pasture State for Climate Resilient Grazing in the Pastures of Queensland: An Integrated Remotely Piloted Aircraft System and Satellite Based Deep-Learning Method for Estimating Time-Integrated Measures of Pasture Yield
Barnetson, J.; Phinn, S.; Scarth, P. Climate-Resilient Grazing in the Pastures of Queensland: An Integrated Remotely Piloted Aircraft System and Satellite-Based Deep-Learning Method for Estimating Pasture Yield. AgriEngineering2021, 3, 681-703.
Barnetson, J.; Phinn, S.; Scarth, P. Climate-Resilient Grazing in the Pastures of Queensland: An Integrated Remotely Piloted Aircraft System and Satellite-Based Deep-Learning Method for Estimating Pasture Yield. AgriEngineering 2021, 3, 681-703.
Barnetson, J.; Phinn, S.; Scarth, P. Climate-Resilient Grazing in the Pastures of Queensland: An Integrated Remotely Piloted Aircraft System and Satellite-Based Deep-Learning Method for Estimating Pasture Yield. AgriEngineering2021, 3, 681-703.
Barnetson, J.; Phinn, S.; Scarth, P. Climate-Resilient Grazing in the Pastures of Queensland: An Integrated Remotely Piloted Aircraft System and Satellite-Based Deep-Learning Method for Estimating Pasture Yield. AgriEngineering 2021, 3, 681-703.
Abstract
The aim of this research is to expand recent developments in the mapping of pasture yield with remotely piloted aircraft systems to that of satellite-borne imagery. Up to date, spatially explicit and accurate information of the pasture resource base is needed for improved climate-adapted livestock rangeland grazing. This study developed deep learning predictive models of pasture yield, as total standing dry matter in tonnes per hectare (TSDM(tha−1)), from field measurements and both remotely piloted aircraft systems and satellite imagery. Repeated remotely piloted aircraft system structure measurements derived from structure from motion photogrammetry, provided measures of pasture biomass from many overlapping high-resolution images. Repeated remotely piloted aircraft system measures throughout a growing season, were modelled with persistent photosynthetic pasture responses from various Planet Dove high spatial resolution satellite image-derived vegetation indices. Pasture height modelling as an input to the modelling of yield was assessed against terrestrial laser scanning and reported correlation coefficients (R2) from 0.3 to 0.8 for both a coastal grassland and inland woodland pasture. Accuracy of the predictive modelling from both the remotely piloted aircraft system and the Planet Dove satellite image estimates of pasture yield ranged from 0.8 to 1.8 TSDM(tha−1). These results indicated that the practical application of repeated remotely piloted aircraft system derived measures of pasture yield can, with some limitations, be scaled-up to satellite-borne imagery to provide more temporally and spatially explicit measures of the pasture resource base.
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
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