scholarly journals Towards an Improved Inventory of N2O Emissions Using Land Cover Maps Derived from Optical Remote Sensing Images

Author(s):  
Tiphaine Tallec ◽  
Claire Marais Siere ◽  
Remy Fieuzal
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 1057-1061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qianbo Sang ◽  
Yin Zhuang ◽  
Shan Dong ◽  
Guanqun Wang ◽  
He Chen

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 503
Author(s):  
Li ◽  
Chen ◽  
Foody ◽  
Wang ◽  
Yang ◽  
...  

The generation of land cover maps with both fine spatial and temporal resolution would aid the monitoring of change on the Earth’s surface. Spatio-temporal sub-pixel land cover mapping (STSPM) uses a few fine spatial resolution (FR) maps and a time series of coarse spatial resolution (CR) remote sensing images as input to generate FR land cover maps with a temporal frequency of the CR data set. Traditional STSPM selects spatially adjacent FR pixels within a local window as neighborhoods to model the land cover spatial dependence, which can be a source of error and uncertainty in the maps generated by the analysis. This paper proposes a new STSPM using FR remote sensing images that pre- and/or post-date the CR image as ancillary data to enhance the quality of the FR map outputs. Spectrally similar pixels within the locality of a target FR pixel in the ancillary data are likely to represent the same land cover class and hence such same-class pixels can provide spatial information to aid the analysis. Experimental results showed that the proposed STSPM predicted land cover maps more accurately than two comparative state-of-the-art STSPM algorithms.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 1815 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia ◽  
Ge ◽  
Chen ◽  
Li ◽  
Heuvelink ◽  
...  

Super-resolution mapping (SRM) is used to obtain fine-scale land cover maps from coarse remote sensing images. Spatial attraction, geostatistics, and using prior geographic information are conventional approaches used to derive fine-scale land cover maps. As the convolutional neural network (CNN) has been shown to be effective in capturing the spatial characteristics of geographic objects and extrapolating calibrated methods to other study areas, it may be a useful approach to overcome limitations of current SRM methods. In this paper, a new SRM method based on the CNN (SRMCNN) is proposed and tested. Specifically, an encoder-decoder CNN is used to model the nonlinear relationship between coarse remote sensing images and fine-scale land cover maps. Two real-image experiments were conducted to analyze the effectiveness of the proposed method. The results demonstrate that the overall accuracy of the proposed SRMCNN method was 3% to 5% higher than that of two existing SRM methods. Moreover, the proposed SRMCNN method was validated by visualizing output features and analyzing the performance of different geographic objects.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 441
Author(s):  
Han Fu ◽  
Bihong Fu ◽  
Pilong Shi

The South China Karst, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) natural heritage site, is one of the world’s most spectacular examples of humid tropical to subtropical karst landscapes. The Libo cone karst in the southern Guizhou Province is considered as the world reference site for these types of karst, forming a distinctive and beautiful landscape. Geomorphic information and spatial distribution of cone karst is essential for conservation and management for Libo heritage site. In this study, a deep learning (DL) method based on DeepLab V3+ network was proposed to document the cone karst landscape in Libo by multi-source data, including optical remote sensing images and digital elevation model (DEM) data. The training samples were generated by using Landsat remote sensing images and their combination with satellite derived DEM data. Each group of training dataset contains 898 samples. The input module of DeepLab V3+ network was improved to accept four-channel input data, i.e., combination of Landsat RGB images and DEM data. Our results suggest that the mean intersection over union (MIoU) using the four-channel data as training samples by a new DL-based pixel-level image segmentation approach is the highest, which can reach 95.5%. The proposed method can accomplish automatic extraction of cone karst landscape by self-learning of deep neural network, and therefore it can also provide a powerful and automatic tool for documenting other type of geological landscapes worldwide.


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