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Article

Rice Yield Prediction in Hubei Province Based on Deep Learning and the Effect of Spatial Heterogeneity

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National Engineering Research Center for Geographic Information System, School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430074, China
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Hubei Luojia Laboratory & State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
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Remote Sens. 2023, 15(5), 1361; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15051361
Submission received: 20 January 2023 / Revised: 16 February 2023 / Accepted: 25 February 2023 / Published: 28 February 2023
(This article belongs to the Special Issue GeoAI and EO Big Data Driven Advances in Earth Environmental Science)

Abstract

Timely and accurate crop yield information can ensure regional food security. In the field of predicting crop yields, deep learning techniques such as long short-term memory (LSTM) and convolutional neural networks (CNN) are frequently employed. Many studies have shown that the predictions of models combining the two are better than those of single models. Crop growth can be reflected by the vegetation index calculated using data from remote sensing. However, the use of pure remote sensing data alone ignores the spatial heterogeneity of different regions. In this paper, we tested a total of three models, CNN-LSTM, CNN and convolutional LSTM (ConvLSTM), for predicting the annual rice yield at the county level in Hubei Province, China. The model was trained by ERA5 temperature (AT) data, MODIS remote sensing data including the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) and Soil-Adapted Vegetation Index (SAVI), and a dummy variable representing spatial heterogeneity; rice yield data from 2000–2019 were employed as labels. Data download and processing were based on Google Earth Engine (GEE). The downloaded remote sensing images were processed into normalized histograms for the training and prediction of deep learning models. According to the experimental findings, the model that included a dummy variable to represent spatial heterogeneity had a stronger predictive ability than the model trained using just remote sensing data. The prediction performance of the CNN-LSTM model outperformed the CNN or ConvLSTM model.
Keywords: rice; crop yield prediction; CNN-LSTM; spatial heterogeneity; Google Earth Engine; deep learning rice; crop yield prediction; CNN-LSTM; spatial heterogeneity; Google Earth Engine; deep learning

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Zhou, S.; Xu, L.; Chen, N. Rice Yield Prediction in Hubei Province Based on Deep Learning and the Effect of Spatial Heterogeneity. Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 1361. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15051361

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Zhou S, Xu L, Chen N. Rice Yield Prediction in Hubei Province Based on Deep Learning and the Effect of Spatial Heterogeneity. Remote Sensing. 2023; 15(5):1361. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15051361

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Zhou, Shitong, Lei Xu, and Nengcheng Chen. 2023. "Rice Yield Prediction in Hubei Province Based on Deep Learning and the Effect of Spatial Heterogeneity" Remote Sensing 15, no. 5: 1361. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15051361

APA Style

Zhou, S., Xu, L., & Chen, N. (2023). Rice Yield Prediction in Hubei Province Based on Deep Learning and the Effect of Spatial Heterogeneity. Remote Sensing, 15(5), 1361. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15051361

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