Tree Species Classification of Airborne Hyperspectral Image in Cloud Shadow Area

2020 ◽  
pp. 389-398
Author(s):  
Junling Li ◽  
Yong Pang ◽  
Zengyuan Li ◽  
Wen Jia
Keyword(s):  
Tree Species ◽  
Hyperspectral Image ◽  
Species Classification ◽  
Tree Species Classification ◽  
Shadow Area

Tree Species Classification of LiDAR Data based on 3D Deep Learning

Measurement ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 109301
Author(s):  
Maohua Liu ◽  
Ziwei Han ◽  
Yiming Chen ◽  
Zhengjun Liu ◽  
Yanshun Han
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Lidar Data ◽  
Species Classification ◽  
Tree Species Classification

scholarly journals EVALUATING A CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK FOR FEATURE EXTRACTION AND TREE SPECIES CLASSIFICATION USING UAV-HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGES

2020 ◽  
Vol V-3-2020 ◽  
pp. 193-199
Author(s):  
C. Sothe ◽  
L. E. C. la Rosa ◽  
C. M. de Almeida ◽  
A. Gonsamo ◽  
M. B. Schimalski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Species Classification ◽  
Tree Species Classification ◽  
Spatial Features

Abstract. The classification of tree species can significantly benefit from high spatial and spectral information acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) associated with advanced feature extraction and classification methods. Different from the traditional feature extraction methods, that highly depend on user’s knowledge, the convolutional neural network (CNN)-based method can automatically learn and extract the spatial-related features layer by layer. However, in order to capture significant features of the data, the CNN classifier requires a large number of training samples, which are hardly available when dealing with tree species in tropical forests. This study investigated the following topics concerning the classification of 14 tree species in a subtropical forest area of Southern Brazil: i) the performance of the CNN method associated with a previous step to increase and balance the sample set (data augmentation) for tree species classification as compared to the conventional machine learning methods support vector machine (SVM) and random forest (RF) using the original training data; ii) the performance of the SVM and RF classifiers when associated with a data augmentation step and spatial features extracted from a CNN. Results showed that the CNN classifier outperformed the conventional SVM and RF classifiers, reaching an overall accuracy (OA) of 84.37% and Kappa of 0.82. The SVM and RF had a poor accuracy with the original spectral bands (OA 62.67% and 59.24%) but presented an increase between 14% and 21% in OA when associated with a data augmentation and spatial features extracted from a CNN.

scholarly journals Classification of Typical Tree Species in Laser Point Cloud Based on Deep Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 4750
Author(s):  
Jianchang Chen ◽  
Yiming Chen ◽  
Zhengjun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Classification Accuracy ◽  
Point Cloud ◽  
Laser Scanning ◽  
Species Classification ◽  
Tree Species Classification ◽  
Network Mapping

We propose the Point Cloud Tree Species Classification Network (PCTSCN) to overcome challenges in classifying tree species from laser data with deep learning methods. The network is mainly composed of two parts: a sampling component in the early stage and a feature extraction component in the later stage. We used geometric sampling to extract regions with local features from the tree contours since these tend to be species-specific. Then we used an improved Farthest Point Sampling method to extract the features from a global perspective. We input the intensity of the tree point cloud as a dimensional feature and spatial information into the neural network and mapped it to higher dimensions for feature extraction. We used the data obtained by Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Laser Scanning (UAVLS) to conduct tree species classification experiments of white birch and larch. The experimental results showed that in both the TLS and UAVLS datasets, the input tree point cloud density and the highest feature dimensionality of the mapping had an impact on the classification accuracy of the tree species. When the single tree sample obtained by TLS consisted of 1024 points and the highest dimension of the network mapping was 512, the classification accuracy of the trained model reached 96%. For the individual tree samples obtained by UAVLS, which consisted of 2048 points and had the highest dimension of the network mapping of 1024, the classification accuracy of the trained model reached 92%. TLS data tree species classification accuracy of PCTSCN was improved by 2–9% compared with other models using the same point density, amount of data and highest feature dimension. The classification accuracy of tree species obtained by UAVLS was up to 8% higher. We propose PCTSCN to provide a new strategy for the intelligent classification of forest tree species.

scholarly journals An Evaluation of Pixel- and Object-Based Tree Species Classification in Mixed Deciduous Forests Using Pansharpened Very High Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1868
Author(s):  
Martina Deur ◽  
Mateo Gašparović ◽  
Ivan Balenović
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Classification Accuracy ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Deciduous Forest ◽  
Species Classification ◽  
Tree Species Classification ◽  
Object Based ◽  
Very High

Quality tree species information gathering is the basis for making proper decisions in forest management. By applying new technologies and remote sensing methods, very high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery can give sufficient spatial detail to achieve accurate species-level classification. In this study, the influence of pansharpening of the WorldView-3 (WV-3) satellite imagery on classification results of three main tree species (Quercus robur L., Carpinus betulus L., and Alnus glutinosa (L.) Geartn.) has been evaluated. In order to increase tree species classification accuracy, three different pansharpening algorithms (Bayes, RCS, and LMVM) have been conducted. The LMVM algorithm proved the most effective pansharpening technique. The pixel- and object-based classification were applied to three pansharpened imageries using a random forest (RF) algorithm. The results showed a very high overall accuracy (OA) for LMVM pansharpened imagery: 92% and 96% for tree species classification based on pixel- and object-based approach, respectively. As expected, the object-based exceeded the pixel-based approach (OA increased by 4%). The influence of fusion on classification results was analyzed as well. Overall classification accuracy was improved by the spatial resolution of pansharpened images (OA increased by 7% for pixel-based approach). Also, regardless of pixel- or object-based classification approaches, the influence of the use of pansharpening is highly beneficial to classifying complex, natural, and mixed deciduous forest areas.

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