Monitoring of Soil Salinization in the Keriya Oasis Based on Deep Learning with PALSAR-2 and Landsat-8 Datasets

Adilai Abulaiti, Ilyas Nurmemet, Nuerbiye Muhetaer, Sentian Xiao and Jing Zhao
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Adilai Abulaiti: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology and College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China
Ilyas Nurmemet: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology and College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China
Nuerbiye Muhetaer: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology and College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China
Sentian Xiao: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology and College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China
Jing Zhao: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology and College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 5, 1-23

Abstract: Currently, soil salinization is one of the main forms of land degradation and desertification. Soil salinization not only seriously restricts the development of agriculture and the economy, but also poses a threat to the ecological environment. The main purpose of this study is to map soil salinity in Keriya Oasis, northwestern China using the PALSAR-2 fully polarized synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) L-band data and Landsat-8-OLI (OLI) optical data combined with deep learning (DL) methods. A field survey is conducted, and soil samples are collected from 20 April 2015 to 1 May 2015. To mine the hidden information in the PALSAR-2 data, multiple polarimetric decomposition methods are implemented, and a wide range of polarimetric parameters and synthetic aperture radar discriminators are derived. The radar vegetation index (RVI) is calculated using PALSAR-2 data, while the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and salinity index (SI) are calculated using OLI data. The random forest (RF)-integrated learning algorithm is used to select the optimal feature subset composed of eight polarimetric elements. The RF, support vector machine, and DL methods are used to extract different degrees of salinized soil. The results show that the OLI+PALSAR-2 image classification result of the DL classification was relatively good, having the highest overall accuracy of 91.86% and a kappa coefficient of 0.90. This method is helpful to understand and monitor the spatial distribution of soil salinity more effectively to achieve sustainable agricultural development and ecological stability.

Keywords: soil salinization; PALSAR-2; polarimetric decomposition; deep learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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