Understanding the dynamics of integrated rice-crawfish farming in Qianjiang county, China using Landsat time series images

摘要

CONTEXT: The emerging integrated rice-crawfish (IRC) farming system, combining paddy rice cultivation with crawfish production, has recently expanded rapidly in central China because of its high efficiency and profits. To date, research on the IRC system has mainly focused on its ecological environmental effects using either statistics or field-point data without spatial and temporal attributes.