Desert locust plague monitoring using time series satellite data

Yun Geng, Yingying Dong, Longlong Zhao, Wenjiang Huang, Chao Ruan, Hansu Zhang, Biyao Zhang

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Abstract: Desert locust has caused great losses to food security in East Africa andSouthwest Asia since its outbreak in 2019.  This study selected six locust damaged countries (India,Pakistan,Ethiopia,Kenya,Somalia, andYemen) as the research object.  The vegetation coverage curves in these six countries from February 2000 to June 2020 were obtained based on the remote sensing data.  Then, the desert locust damage area is monitored by determining determine the locust damage threshold of different vegetation cover types (cropland, grassland and shrub) based on the change of vegetation coverages.  The results showed that desert locust caused serious damage to vegetation.  By the end of June 2020, Desert Locust harmed vegetation area of 1058.3 thousand hectares, 792.9 thousand hectares, 1137.5 thousand hectares, 936.8 thousand hectares, 780 thousand hectares and 763.5 thousand hectares inIndia,Pakistan,Ethiopia,Kenya,Somalia andYemen, respectively.  The research results laid the foundation for real-time, rapid, and large-scale monitoring of locust plague dynamics, and provide a scientific basis for reasonable and economic prevention of locust plague.

Keywords: Desert locust plague, vegetation cover, monitoring, time series

DOI: 10.33440/j.ijpaa.20200304.111

 

Citation: Geng Y, Dong Y Y, Zhao L L, Huang W J, Ruan C, Zhang H S, Zhang B Y.  Desert locust plague monitoring using time series satellite data.  Int J Precis Agric Aviat, 2020; 3(4): 24–30.


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