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Monitoring Crop Condition Using Polarimetric SAR

2024· article· en· W4402265682 on OpenAlexaffabout
Heather McNairn, Xianfeng Jiao

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSynthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques
Canadian institutionsAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolarimetryRemote sensingSynthetic aperture radarComputer scienceCropEnvironmental scienceGeologyAgronomyBiologyPhysics

Abstract

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A changing climate is bringing uncertainty to agricultural production and methods that can deliver assessments of crop condition will help mitigate impacts. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada is developing a vegetation index based on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to monitor crops. In this research, machine learning algorithms are used to relate SAR parameters from RADARSAT-2 fully polarimetric and Sentinel-1 dual-pol (VV-VH) Single Look Complex data to optical Normalized Difference Vegetation Index values. For four crops (canola, corn, soybeans, wheat) Random Forest Regressors and Least-squares Boosting were able to create strong models using multiple polarimetric parameters. Coefficients of determination (R2) ranged from 0.91 to 0.84 depending on the crop type, sensor and model. Errors for oats and barley were higher due to a more limited training dataset.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.006

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.274
Teacher spread0.258 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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