Detection of forest disaster using high-resolution satellite images with semantic segmentation

Automatic extraction of building footprints from high-resolution satellite imagery has become an important and challenging research issue receiving greater attention. Many recent studies have explored different deep learning-based semantic segmentation methods for improving the accuracy of building extraction. Although they record substantial land cover and land use information (e.g., buildings, roads, water, etc.), public geographic information system (GIS) map datasets have rarely been utilized to improve building extraction results in existing studies. In this research, we propose a U-Net-based semantic segmentation method for the extraction of building footprints from high-resolution multispectral satellite images using the SpaceNet building dataset provided in the DeepGlobe Satellite Challenge of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2018 (CVPR 2018). We explore the potential of multiple public GIS map datasets (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, and MapWorld) through integration with the WorldView-3 satellite datasets in four cities (Las Vegas, Paris, Shanghai, and Khartoum). Several strategies are designed and combined with the U-Net–based semantic segmentation model, including data augmentation, post-processing, and integration of the GIS map data and satellite images. The proposed method achieves a total F1-score of 0.704, which is an improvement of 1.1% to 12.5% compared with the top three solutions in the SpaceNet Building Detection Competition and 3.0% to 9.2% compared with the standard U-Net–based method. Moreover, the effect of each proposed strategy and the possible reasons for the building footprint extraction results are analyzed substantially considering the actual situation of the four cities.

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Deep Hybrid Network for Land Cover Semantic Segmentation in High-Spatial Resolution Satellite Images

Information ◽

10.3390/info12060230 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 230

Author(s):

Sultan Daud Khan ◽

Louai Alarabi ◽

Saleh Basalamah

Keyword(s):

High Resolution ◽

Land Cover ◽

Spatial Resolution ◽

Satellite Images ◽

High Spatial Resolution ◽

Multiple Scales ◽

Semantic Segmentation ◽

Vital Role ◽

Hybrid Network ◽

High Resolution Satellite Images

Land cover semantic segmentation in high-spatial resolution satellite images plays a vital role in efficient management of land resources, smart agriculture, yield estimation and urban planning. With the recent advancement in remote sensing technologies, such as satellites, drones, UAVs, and airborne vehicles, a large number of high-resolution satellite images are readily available. However, these high-resolution satellite images are complex due to increased spatial resolution and data disruption caused by different factors involved in the acquisition process. Due to these challenges, an efficient land-cover semantic segmentation model is difficult to design and develop. In this paper, we develop a hybrid deep learning model that combines the benefits of two deep models, i.e., DenseNet and U-Net. This is carried out to obtain a pixel-wise classification of land cover. The contraction path of U-Net is replaced with DenseNet to extract features of multiple scales, while long-range connections of U-Net concatenate encoder and decoder paths are used to preserve low-level features. We evaluate the proposed hybrid network on a challenging, publicly available benchmark dataset. From the experimental results, we demonstrate that the proposed hybrid network exhibits a state-of-the-art performance and beats other existing models by a considerable margin.

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