Land Cover Classification based on Deep Convolutional Neural Network with Feature-based Data Augmentation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Wang ◽  
Chengeng Huang ◽  
Yuhua Guo ◽  
Jiahui Tao
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Texture Features ◽  
Land Cover Classification ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Image Information ◽  
Feature Based ◽  
The Rich

Radiation information is essential to land cover classification, but general deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) hardly use this to advantage. Additionally, the limited amount of available remote sensing data restricts the efficiency of DCNN models though this can be overcome by data augmentation. However, normal data augmentation methods, which only involve operations such as rotation and translation, have little effect on radiation information. These methods ignore the rich information contained in the image data. In this article, the authors propose a feasible feature-based data augmentation method, which extracts spectral features that can reflect radiation information as well as geometric and texture features that can reflect image information prior to augmentation. Through feature extraction, this method indirectly enhances radiation information and increases the utilization of image information. Classification accuracies show an improvement from 80.20% to 89.20%, which further verifies the effectiveness of this method.

scholarly journals Estimation of Boreal Forest Growing Stock Volume in Russia from Sentinel-2 MSI and Land Cover Classification

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 4483
Author(s):  
W. Gareth Rees ◽  
Jack Tomaney ◽  
Olga Tutubalina ◽  
Vasily Zharko ◽  
Sergey Bartalev
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Land Cover Classification ◽  
Fundamental Parameter ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Growing Stock ◽  
Stock Volume ◽  
Sentinel 2

Growing stock volume (GSV) is a fundamental parameter of forests, closely related to the above-ground biomass and hence to carbon storage. Estimation of GSV at regional to global scales depends on the use of satellite remote sensing data, although accuracies are generally lower over the sparse boreal forest. This is especially true of boreal forest in Russia, for which knowledge of GSV is currently poor despite its global importance. Here we develop a new empirical method in which the primary remote sensing data source is a single summer Sentinel-2 MSI image, augmented by land-cover classification based on the same MSI image trained using MODIS-derived data. In our work the method is calibrated and validated using an extensive set of field measurements from two contrasting regions of the Russian arctic. Results show that GSV can be estimated with an RMS uncertainty of approximately 35–55%, comparable to other spaceborne estimates of low-GSV forest areas, with 70% spatial correspondence between our GSV maps and existing products derived from MODIS data. Our empirical approach requires somewhat laborious data collection when used for upscaling from field data, but could also be used to downscale global data.

scholarly journals Urban Land-Cover Classification Using Side-View Information from Oblique Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 390
Author(s):  
Changlin Xiao ◽  
Rongjun Qin ◽  
Xiao Ling
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Land Cover Classification ◽  
Side View ◽  
High Resolution Data ◽  
Training Samples ◽  
Surface Models ◽  
Extraction Algorithm ◽  
Oblique Images

Land-cover classification on very high resolution data (decimetre-level) is a well-studied yet challenging problem in remote sensing data processing. Most of the existing works focus on using images with orthographic view or orthophotos with the associated digital surface models (DSMs). However, the use of the nowadays widely-available oblique images to support such a task is not sufficiently investigated. In the effort of identifying different land-cover classes, it is intuitive that information of side-views obtained from the oblique can be of great help, yet how this can be technically achieved is challenging due to the complex geometric association between the side and top views. We aim to address these challenges in this paper by proposing a framework with enhanced classification results, leveraging the use of orthophoto, digital surface models and oblique images. The proposed method contains a classic two-step of (1) feature extraction and (2) a classification approach, in which the key contribution is a feature extraction algorithm that performs simplified geometric association between top-view segments (from orthophoto) and side-view planes (from projected oblique images), and joint statistical feature extraction. Our experiment on five test sites showed that the side-view information could steadily improve the classification accuracy with both kinds of training samples (1.1% and 5.6% for evenly distributed and non-evenly distributed samples, separately). Additionally, by testing the classifier at a large and untrained site, adding side-view information showed a total of 26.2% accuracy improvement of the above-ground objects, which demonstrates the strong generalization ability of the side-view features.

Decision Fusion of Remote-Sensing Data for Land Cover Classification

2019 ◽  
pp. 341-382
Author(s):  
Arnaud Le Bris ◽  
Nesrine Chehata ◽  
Walid Ouerghemmi ◽  
Cyril Wendl ◽  
Tristan Postadjian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Land Cover Classification ◽  
Decision Fusion ◽  
Sensing Data

scholarly journals The Use of Spot-HRV Data for the Mapping of the Land Cover (applied upon East-Mono, Central Togo)

Afrika Focus ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beata Maria De Vliegher
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Image Interpretation ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Land Cover Map ◽  
Colour Composite

The mapping of the land use in a tropical wet and dry area (East-Mono, Central Togo) is made using remote sensing data, recorded by the satellite SPOT. The negative, multispectral image data set has been transferred into positives by photographical means and afterwards enhanced using the diazo technique. The combination of the different diazo coloured images resulted in a false colour composite, being the basic document for the visual image interpretation. The image analysis, based upon differences in colour and texture, resulted in a photomorphic unit map. The use of a decision tree including the various image characteristics allowed the conversion of the photomorphic unit map into a land cover map. For this, six main land cover types could be differentiated resulting in 16 different classes of the final map. KEY WORDS :Remote sensing, SPOT, Multispectral view, Visual image interpre- tation, Mapping, Vegetation, Land use, Togo. 

scholarly journals LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION FROM FULL-WAVEFORM LIDAR DATA BASED ON SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B3 ◽  
pp. 447-452
Author(s):  
M. Zhou ◽  
C. R. Li ◽  
L. Ma ◽  
H. C. Guan
Keyword(s):  
Support Vector Machines ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Prediction Model ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Land Cover Classification ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Vector Machines ◽  
Waveform Lidar

In this study, a land cover classification method based on multi-class Support Vector Machines (SVM) is presented to predict the types of land cover in Miyun area. The obtained backscattered full-waveforms were processed following a workflow of waveform pre-processing, waveform decomposition and feature extraction. The extracted features, which consist of distance, intensity, Full Width at Half Maximum (FWHM) and back scattering cross-section, were corrected and used as attributes for training data to generate the SVM prediction model. The SVM prediction model was applied to predict the types of land cover in Miyun area as ground, trees, buildings and farmland. The classification results of these four types of land covers were obtained based on the ground truth information according to the CCD image data of Miyun area. It showed that the proposed classification algorithm achieved an overall classification accuracy of 90.63%. In order to better explain the SVM classification results, the classification results of SVM method were compared with that of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) method and it showed that SVM method could achieve better classification results.

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