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ArticlePloS one2024

Advancing food security: Rice yield estimation framework using time-series satellite data & machine learning.

Varun Tiwari, Kelly Thorp, Mirela G Tulbure, Joshua Gray, Mohammad Kamruzzaman, Timothy J Krupnik, A Sankarasubramanian, Marcelo Ardon

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Varun TiwariCenter for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-8200-706X
Kelly ThorpUnited States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Grassland Soil and Water Research Laboratory, Temple, Texas, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-9168-875X
Mirela G TulbureCenter for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, United States of America.
Joshua GrayCenter for Geospatial Analytics, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, United States of America.
Mohammad KamruzzamanFarm Machinery and Postharvest Technology Division, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Gazipur, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0001-6640-8082
Timothy J KrupnikInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Dhaka, Bangladesh.ORCID 0000-0001-6973-0106
A SankarasubramanianCivil and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, United States of America.
Marcelo ArdonCollege of Natural Resources, North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, United States of America.

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Abstract

Timely and accurately estimating rice yields is crucial for supporting food security management, agricultural policy development, and climate change adaptation in rice-producing countries such as Bangladesh. To address this need, this study introduced a workflow to enable timely and precise rice yield estimation at a sub-district scale (1,000-meter spatial resolution). However, a significant gap exists in the application of remote sensing methods for government-reported rice yield estimation for food security management at high spatial resolution. Current methods are limited to specific regions and primarily used for research, lacking integration into national reporting systems. Additionally, there is no consistent yearly boro rice yield map at a sub-district scale, hindering localized agricultural decision-making. This workflow leveraged MODIS and annual district-level yield data to train a random forest model for estimating boro rice yields at a 1,000-meter resolution from 2002 to 2021. The results revealed a mean percentage root mean square error (RMSE) of 8.07% and 12.96% when validation was conducted using reported district yields and crop-cut yield data, respectively. Additionally, the estimated yield of boro rice varies with an uncertainty range between 0.40 and 0.45 tons per hectare across Bangladesh. Furthermore, a trend analysis was performed on the estimated boro rice yield data from 2002 to 2021 using the modified Mann-Kendall trend test with a 95% confidence interval (p < 0.05). In Bangladesh, 23% of the rice area exhibits an increasing trend in boro rice yield, 0.11% shows a decreasing trend, and 76.51% of the area demonstrates no trend in rice yield. Given that this is the first attempt to estimate boro rice yield at 1,000-meter spatial resolution over two decades in Bangladesh, the estimated mid-season boro rice yield estimates are scalable across space and time, offering significant potential for strengthening food security management in Bangladesh. Furthermore, the proposed workflow can be easily applied to estimate rice yields in other regions worldwide.

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Food SecurityMachine LearningOryzaAgricultureBangladeshClimate ChangeCrops, AgriculturalSatellite Imagery

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PMCPMC11637374

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