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Rice is one of the major staple food crops in the world, so monitoring rice production to support agricultural management to ensure food security is essential. Managers need important decision-making information such as regularly updated rice acreage, growth stage, and yield. This study aims to propose applying radar remote sensing data in extracting this information. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data from Sentinel-1 satellite is provided free of charge by the European Space Agency (ESA), with large coverage, high spatio-temporal resolution. It also has the advantage of observing in cloudy, foggy, and rainy weather conditions, regardless of solar radiation. Therefore, this data is suitable for monitoring rice in countries with tropical monsoon climates like Vietnam. This paper presents the results of extracting growth stage information and yield estimation of Winter-Spring rice crops in 2018 in the Mekong Delta using C-band Sentinel-1 data. The results demonstrate the utility of SAR Sentinel-1 data to monitor the distribution of rice-growing areas, the growth stage in the Mekong Delta, and the estimation of rice yield in An Giang province, the Mekong Delta.
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The study has been carried out within the framework of the research project “Applied research on optical and radar remote sensing data for rice planted area monitoring and rice yield and production estimation in the Mekong Delta and Red River Delta”, the project number: VT-UD-08/17-20, which belongs to the National program on space science and technology (2016–2020).
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Hoang-Phi, P., Lam-Dao, N., Nguyen-Van-Anh, V., Nguyen-Kim, T., Le Toan, T., Pham-Duy, T. (2022). Rice Growth Stage Monitoring and Yield Estimation in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta Using Multi-temporal Sentinel-1 Data. In: Vadrevu, K.P., Le Toan, T., Ray, S.S., Justice, C. (eds) Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Land Cover/Land Use Changes in South and Southeast Asian Countries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92365-5_17
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