This material is based on work funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 41271234 ) and Hunan Province farmland productivity evaluation project of the Department of Agriculture of Hunan Province ( 13140 ). We thank the Institute of Agricultural Remote Sensing and Information Technology Application, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, for their support. Help from Dr. Asim Biswas in multi-scale analysis is also acknowledged.