A detailed comparison of backpropagation neural network and maximum-likelihood classifiers for urban land use classification

Urban land use is key to rational urban planning and management. Traditional land use classification methods rely heavily on domain experts, which is both expensive and inefficient. In this paper, deep neural network-based approaches are presented to label urban land use at pixel level using high-resolution aerial images and ground-level street view images. We use a deep neural network to extract semantic features from sparsely distributed street view images and interpolate them in the spatial domain to match the spatial resolution of the aerial images, which are then fused together through a deep neural network for classifying land use categories. Our methods are tested on a large publicly available aerial and street view images dataset of New York City, and the results show that using aerial images alone can achieve relatively high classification accuracy, the ground-level street view images contain useful information for urban land use classification, and fusing street image features with aerial images can improve classification accuracy. Moreover, we present experimental studies to show that street view images add more values when the resolutions of the aerial images are lower, and we also present case studies to illustrate how street view images provide useful auxiliary information to aerial images to boost performances.

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Comparison of object-based and pixel-based methods for urban land-use classification from WorldView-2 imagery

2014 Third International Workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications (EORSA) ◽

10.1109/eorsa.2014.6927896 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Yanchen Wu ◽

Yinghai Ke ◽

Huili Gong ◽

Beibei Chen ◽

Lin Zhu

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Urban Land ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Land Use Classification ◽

Object Based

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Urban land use classification using synthetic aperture radar

International Journal of Remote Sensing ◽

10.1080/01431168308948542 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 215-233 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

M. LEONARD BRYAN

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Synthetic Aperture Radar ◽

Urban Land ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Synthetic Aperture ◽

Land Use Classification ◽

Aperture Radar

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Social Sensing for Urban Land Use Identification

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information ◽

10.3390/ijgi9090550 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (9) ◽

pp. 550

Author(s):

Adindha Anugraha ◽

Hone-Jay Chu ◽

Muhammad Ali

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Accuracy Assessment ◽

Urban Land ◽

Demographic Characteristics ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Land Uses ◽

Land Use Classification ◽

Residential Areas ◽

Social Sensing ◽

Land Use Maps

The utilization of urban land use maps can reveal the patterns of human behavior through the extraction of the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of urban land use. Remote sensing that holds detailed and abundant information on spectral, textual, contextual, and spatial configurations is crucial to obtaining land use maps that reveal changes in the urban environment. However, social sensing is essential to revealing the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of urban land use. This data mining approach is related to data cleaning/outlier removal and machine learning, and is used to achieve land use classification from remote and social sensing data. In bicycle and taxi density maps, the daytime destination and nighttime origin density reflects work-related land uses, including commercial and industrial areas. By contrast, the nighttime destination and daytime origin density pattern captures the pattern of residential areas. The accuracy assessment of land use classified maps shows that the integration of remote and social sensing, using the decision tree and random forest methods, yields accuracies of 83% and 86%, respectively. Thus, this approach facilitates an accurate urban land use classification. Urban land use identification can aid policy makers in linking human activities to the socioeconomic consequences of different urban land uses.

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Urban Land-Use Dynamics in the Niger Delta: The Case of Greater Port Harcourt Watershed

Urban Science ◽

10.3390/urbansci2040108 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 108 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Nimi Dan-Jumbo ◽

Marc Metzger ◽

Andrew Clark

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Change ◽

Niger Delta ◽

Agricultural Land ◽

Urban Expansion ◽

Urban Land ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Hard Copy ◽

Land Use Classification ◽

Depth Analysis

Cities in developing countries are urbanising at a rapid rate, resulting in substantial pressures on environmental systems. Among the main factors that lead to flooding, controlling land-use change offers the greatest scope for the management of risk. However, traditional analysis of a “from–to” change matrix is not adequate to provide information of all the land-use changes that occur in a watershed. In this study, an in-depth analysis of land-use change enabled us to quantify the bulk of the changes accumulating from swap changes in a tropical watershed. This study assessed the historical and future land-use/land-cover (LULC) dynamics in the River State region of the Niger Delta. Land-use classification and change detection analysis was conducted using multi-source (Landsat TM, ETM, polygon map, and hard copy) data of the study area for 1986, 1995, and 2003, and projected conditions in 2060. The key findings indicate that historical urbanisation was rapid; urban expansion could increase by 80% in 2060 due to planned urban development; and 95% of the conversions to urban land occurred chiefly at the expense of agricultural land. Urban land was dominated by net changes rather than swap changes, which in the future could amplify flood risk and have other severe implications for the watershed.

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Application of Neural Network in Urban Land Use Suitability Evaluation

Key Engineering Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.474-476.681 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 474-476 ◽

pp. 681-686

Author(s):

Xiao Rui Zhang ◽

Gang Chen

Keyword(s):

Neural Network ◽

Land Use ◽

Artificial Neural Network ◽

Back Propagation ◽

Back Propagation Neural Network ◽

Urban Land ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Suitability Evaluation ◽

Land Use Suitability ◽

Artificial Neural

Urban land use suitability evaluation is the basic work of urban land use planning and management. The evaluation method is a core in urban land use suitability evaluation. Traditional urban land use suitability evaluation methods are GIS-based methods which often can not get satisfactory results for the complex nonlinear urban land use system. Artificial neural network is a frontier theory of complex non-linearity scientific and artificial intelligence science. It is a new method to evaluate urban land use suitability. This paper took the land use suitability evaluation of Hefei city as an example, building a back propagation neural network with 8 neurous of input layer, 5 neurons of hide layer and 3 neurons of output layer. The analysis shows: the high suitability area is 682.27 km2in Hefei city, being about 8.73% of the total study area; the middle suitability area is 5965.76 km2, or about 76.33% of the total area and the low suitability area is 1167.35 km2, or about 14.94% of the total area. The results reflect the actual situation in Hefei city. The study shows that the back propagation neural network model can overcome the shortcomings of traditional evaluation methods. It means that artificial neural network is suitable for urban land use suitability evaluation. This reflects that artificial neural network has great academic value and application prospect in urban land use suitability evaluation. It also reflects that this study can provide a new idea and method for urban land use suitability evaluation.

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