Ukrainian cropland through decades: 1990–2016

Kussul, Nataliia; Kolotii, Andrii; Adamenko, T.; Yailymov, Bohdan; Shelestov, Andrii; Lavreniuk, Mykola

doi:10.1109/ukrcon.2017.8100369

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“…These values represent a 2.2 and 8.0% overestimation compared to the official statistics provided by the SSSU. Typically, cropland area is underestimated by the official statistics due to imperfect data collection protocols and underreporting by crop producers (Gallego et al, 2014;Kussul et al, 2017a). For 2018, our satellite-based estimates were cropland losses for the entire region of 188.8 ± 19.2 Tha for Donetsk and 64.2 ± 12.7 Tha for Luhansk regions, while cropland gains were 53.5 ± 13.2 Tha for Donetsk and 63.0 ± 14.0 Tha for Luhansk.…”

Section: Overall Cropland Area Changesmentioning

confidence: 85%

Satellite Data Reveal Cropland Losses in South-Eastern Ukraine Under Military Conflict

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While people are aware that there is a continuing conflict in Ukraine, there is little understanding of its impact. The military conflict in South-Eastern Ukraine has been ongoing since 2014, with a major socio-economic impact on the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. In this study, we quantify land cover land use changes in those regions related to cropland changes. Cropland areas account for almost 50% of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and with the declining industry between 2014 and 2017, the role of agriculture to the regional economy has increased. We use freely available satellite data and machine learning methods to map cropland extent in 2013 and 2018 and derive corresponding changes in cropland areas. We use a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) to classify multi-temporal Landsat-7, Landsat-8, and Sentinel-2 images into cropland and non-cropland areas, and a sampling-based approach to estimate the areas of cropland change. We found that net cropland losses were not uniform across the regions, and were more substantial in the areas not under control of the Ukrainian Government (22% of net cropland area loss compared to cropland areas in 2013) and within a buffer zone along the conflict border line (46%), where combat activities occur. These results highlight the impact of the conflict on agriculture and the utility of spatially explicit information acquired from Earth observation satellites, especially for areas, where collecting ground-based data is impractical.

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Section: Overall Cropland Area Changesmentioning

confidence: 85%