Extracting Aquaculture Ponds from Natural Water Surfaces Around Inland Lakes Through GEE Datasets: A Case-Study of River Krishna Delta in South India
摘要
Modified Normalized Difference Water Index (MNDWI) is a spectral index used to analyze and map the aquaculture ponds from the Sentinel-2 satellite images that are available in Google Earth Engine (GEE). Monitoring and census of aquacultural activity is conventionally undertaken by field surveys that are time-consuming and expensive. The large-scale identification of aquaculture ponds has also been greatly enhanced by cloud computing platforms like GEE. The main objective of the study is that the machine learning classifier Random Forest (RF) was employed in GEE-based mapping investigations of aquaculture ponds. The study has shown that the Random Forest classifier is capable of extracting aquaculture pond spatial distribution with excellent overall accuracy, exceeding 90%. The locations derived from Google Earth Imagery are found to be consistent with the corresponding aquaculture ponds depicted on the resultant map obtained from the RF classifier.