Abstract
Coupling remote sensing(RS) with a crop growth model can improve the prediction accuracy of crop modeling at a regional scale.In this paper,a new coupling method was developed based on a combination of the updating and assimilation strategies.The optimized model was used to estimate rice grain yield at both the field and regional scales.Firstly,parameterization for regionalization of the integrated RiceGrow model was accomplished with the use of the Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO) optimization algorithm.Management parameters included sowing date,sowing rate and nitrogen rate.Then,analyzed values of model variables,leaf area index(LAI) and leaf nitrogen accumulation(LNA),which simultaneously served as the assimilation and updating parameters,were calculated based on the Ensemble Square Root Filter(EnSRF) and used to update the corresponding values simulated by the RiceGrow model.Finally,the growth status and final yield were simulated by the integrated model.This integrated technique was tested on independent datasets acquired from three rice field tests in different years for different rice varieties and at different treatments with regards to nitrogen rates and sowing densities.This was in addition to data obtained from study areas in Yizheng and Rugao counties in Jiangsu Province(in central eastern China),both of which are main production areas of high-quality rice in China.The test results showed that simulated values based on the integrated model were closer to the measured values than those simulated directly by the RiceGrow model,which produced RMSE values of 0.94 for LAI,0.47 g/m2 for LNA and 320.15 kg/hm2 for grain yield.The compared to RMSE values of 1.25,1.24 g/m2 and 516.83 kg/hm2 for these respective parameters based on the RiceGrow model alone,and 1.01,0.59 g/m2 and 335.70 kg/hm2 for the RiceGrow model based on the assimilation strategy.The newly developed integrated technique also performed well at a regional scale and the predicted results were consistent with the temporal and spatial distribution of rice growth status and grain yield,with relative error(RE) values of 20% for both growth parameters and the grain yield.This error may have been due to the limited simulation ability of the RiceGrow model,or generated during the RS information extraction and the statistical RS estimating models,all of which need improvement.These results indicated that there are certain non-determinacy factors for the RiceGrow model when used at the regional scale,such as spatial variability in the soil and management parameters.However,the integrated technique based on combining RS and the RiceGrow model could reduce this problem.Therefore,this study provides an important step towards the more routine use of combined RS and crop modeling techniques to improve our ability to estimate regional rice grain yield predictions.
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