1 December 2020 Landscape fragmentation in coffee agroecological subzones in central Kenya: a multiscale remote sensing approach
Gladys Mosomtai, John Odindi, Elfatih M. Abdel-Rahman, Régis Babin, Pinard Fabrice, Onisimo Mutanga, Henri E. Z. Tonnang, Guillaume David, Tobias Landmann
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Abstract

Smallholder agroecological subzones (AEsZs) produce an array of crops occupying large areas throughout Africa but remain largely unmapped. We explored multisource satellite datasets to produce a seamless land-use and land-cover (LULC) and fragmentation dataset for upper midland (UM1 to UM4) AEsZs in central Kenya. Specifically, the utility of PlanetScope, Sentinel 2, and Landsat 8 images for mapping coffee-based landscape were tested using a random forest (RF) classifier. Vegetation indices, texture variables, and wavelength bands from all satellite data were used as inputs in generating four RF models. A LULC baseline map was produced that was further analyzed using FRAGSTAT to generate landscape metrics for each AEsZs. Wavelength bands model from Sentinel 2 had the highest overall accuracy with shortwave near-infrared and green bands as the most important variables. In UM1 and UM2, coffee was the dominant cover type, whereas annual and other perennial crops dominated the landscape in UM3 and UM4. The patch density for coffee was five times higher in UM4 than in UM1. Since Sentinel 2 is freely available, the approach used in our study can be adopted to support land-use planning in smallholder agroecosystems.

© 2020 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 1931-3195/2020/$28.00 © 2020 SPIE
Gladys Mosomtai, John Odindi, Elfatih M. Abdel-Rahman, Régis Babin, Pinard Fabrice, Onisimo Mutanga, Henri E. Z. Tonnang, Guillaume David, and Tobias Landmann "Landscape fragmentation in coffee agroecological subzones in central Kenya: a multiscale remote sensing approach," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 14(4), 044513 (1 December 2020). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.14.044513
Received: 28 July 2020; Accepted: 5 November 2020; Published: 1 December 2020
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KEYWORDS
Picosecond phenomena

Satellites

Earth observing sensors

Data modeling

Vegetation

Landsat

Satellite imaging

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