Application of Remote Sensing Technology on Precision Agriculture - A case study of cultivation distribution of rice

Abstract

整合各類之遙測資料，以利衛星遙測技術在農作物、環境變遷及天然災害等相關應用研究之發展已成為下一世紀之趨勢。在農業上傳統的農作物面積及產量的測量方法不但耗費頗大且不具時效，尤其是台灣地區面積狹小、地形和地物複雜，傳統測量方法更是困難重重。因此，在講求精準農業的現今，遙測技術在計算農作物種植面積及產量上的應用研究，已是刻不容緩，亦為我國遙測技術應用研究發展的重要方向之一。而水稻是台灣最主要的農作物，對於種植面積及產量估算等工作，尚需人工判識，頗為耗時耗力，如能利用衛星觀測，則可輕鬆而有效率的完成。本研究之主要目的即在發展利用衛星觀測資料估算水稻種植面積之模式，以供台灣地區計算水稻種植面積及產量預估之應用。 Integration of remotely sensed data and develop for the various applications, such as agricultural management, environmental change and natural damage monitoring etc., is the main tendency of resource management in the next century. Since many traditional methods of agricultural production estimation not only need much man power but also is time-consuming, especially in the complex terrain area of Taiwan. So, how to apply remote sensing technology for the agriculture management to provide a more economical and convenient method than the traditional methods is very important with dispatch in the precision farming age. Because rice is one of the main crops in Taiwan, research of relative projects, such as acreage estimation, yield prediction and so on, become very important. The purpose of this research is to develop one efficient model of applying satellite data for paddy acreage monitoring in Taiwan area, and one real case study is demonstrated