scholarly journals Multi-Objective Support Vector Regression Reduces Systematic Error in Moderate Resolution Maps of Tree Species Abundance

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kasey Legaard ◽  
Erin Simons-Legaard ◽  
Aaron Weiskittel

When forest conditions are mapped from empirical models, uncertainty in remotely sensed predictor variables can cause the systematic overestimation of low values, underestimation of high values, and suppression of variability. This regression dilution or attenuation bias is a well-recognized problem in remote sensing applications, with few practical solutions. Attenuation is of particular concern for applications that are responsive to prediction patterns at the high end of observed data ranges, where systematic error is typically greatest. We addressed attenuation bias in models of tree species relative abundance (percent of total aboveground live biomass) based on multitemporal Landsat and topoclimatic predictor data. We developed a multi-objective support vector regression (MOSVR) algorithm that simultaneously minimizes total prediction error and systematic error caused by attenuation bias. Applied to 13 tree species in the Acadian Forest Region of the northeastern U.S., MOSVR performed well compared to other prediction methods including single-objective SVR (SOSVR) minimizing total error, Random Forest (RF), gradient nearest neighbor (GNN), and Random Forest nearest neighbor (RFNN) algorithms. SOSVR and RF yielded the lowest total prediction error but produced the greatest systematic error, consistent with strong attenuation bias. Underestimation at high relative abundance caused strong deviations between predicted patterns of species dominance/codominance and those observed at field plots. In contrast, GNN and RFNN produced dominance/codominance patterns that deviated little from observed patterns, but predicted species relative abundance with lower accuracy and substantial systematic error. MOSVR produced the least systematic error for all species with total error often comparable to SOSVR or RF. Predicted patterns of dominance/codominance matched observations well, though not quite as well as GNN or RFNN. Overall, MOSVR provides an effective machine learning approach to the reduction of systematic prediction error and should be fully generalizable to other remote sensing applications and prediction problems.

2020 ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
M. Campos-Taberner ◽  
F.J. García-Haro ◽  
B. Martínez ◽  
M.A. Gilabert

<p class="p1">The use of deep learning techniques for remote sensing applications has recently increased. These algorithms have proven to be successful in estimation of parameters and classification of images. However, little effort has been made to make them understandable, leading to their implementation as “black boxes”. This work aims to evaluate the performance and clarify the operation of a deep learning algorithm, based on a bi-directional recurrent network of long short-term memory (2-BiLSTM). The land use classification in the Valencian Community based on Sentinel-2 image time series in the framework of the common agricultural policy (CAP) is used as an example. It is verified that the accuracy of the deep learning techniques is superior (98.6 % overall success) to that other algorithms such as decision trees (DT), k-nearest neighbors (k-NN), neural networks (NN), support vector machines (SVM) and random forests (RF). The performance of the classifier has been studied as a function of time and of the predictors used. It is concluded that, in the study area, the most relevant information used by the network in the classification are the images corresponding to summer and the spectral and spatial information derived from the red and near infrared bands. These results open the door to new studies in the field of the explainable deep learning in remote sensing applications.</p>


Author(s):  
R. Näsi ◽  
E. Honkavaara ◽  
S. Tuominen ◽  
H. Saari ◽  
I. Pölönen ◽  
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Unmanned airborne systems (UAS) based remote sensing offers flexible tool for environmental monitoring. Novel lightweight Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) based, frame format, hyperspectral imaging in the spectral range from 400 to 1600 nm was used for identifying different species of trees in a forest area. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this was the first research where stereoscopic, hyperspectral VIS, NIR, SWIR data is collected for tree species identification using UAS. The first results of the analysis based on fusion of two FPI-based hyperspectral imagers and RGB camera showed that the novel FPI hyperspectral technology provided accurate geometric, radiometric and spectral information in a forested scene and is operational for environmental remote sensing applications.


Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 739
Author(s):  
Enoch Gyamfi-Ampadu ◽  
Michael Gebreslasie

Forest covers about a third of terrestrial land surface, with tropical and subtropical zones being a major part. Remote sensing applications constitute a significant approach to monitoring forests. Thus, this paper reviews the progress made by remote sensing data applications to tropical and sub-tropical natural forest monitoring over the last two decades (2000–2020). The review focuses on the thematic areas of aboveground biomass and carbon estimations, tree species identification, tree species diversity, and forest cover and change mapping. A systematic search of articles was performed on Web of Science, Science Direct, and Google Scholar by applying a Boolean operator and using keywords related to the thematic areas. We identified 50 peer-reviewed articles that studied tropical and subtropical natural forests using remote sensing data. Asian and South American natural forests are the most highly researched natural forests, while African natural forests are the least studied. Medium spatial resolution imagery was extensively utilized for forest cover and change mapping as well as aboveground biomass and carbon estimation. In the latest studies, high spatial resolution imagery and machine learning algorithms, such as Random Forest and Support Vector Machine, were jointly utilized for tree species identification. In this review, we noted the promising potential of the emerging high spatial resolution satellite imagery for the monitoring of natural forests. We recommend more research to identify approaches to overcome the challenges of remote sensing applications to these thematic areas so that further and sustainable progress can be made to effectively monitor and manage sustainable forest benefits.


Author(s):  
R. Näsi ◽  
E. Honkavaara ◽  
S. Tuominen ◽  
H. Saari ◽  
I. Pölönen ◽  
...  

Unmanned airborne systems (UAS) based remote sensing offers flexible tool for environmental monitoring. Novel lightweight Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) based, frame format, hyperspectral imaging in the spectral range from 400 to 1600 nm was used for identifying different species of trees in a forest area. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this was the first research where stereoscopic, hyperspectral VIS, NIR, SWIR data is collected for tree species identification using UAS. The first results of the analysis based on fusion of two FPI-based hyperspectral imagers and RGB camera showed that the novel FPI hyperspectral technology provided accurate geometric, radiometric and spectral information in a forested scene and is operational for environmental remote sensing applications.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (S3) ◽  
pp. 82-94
Author(s):  
Hongchao Li ◽  
Fang Wu

In this paper, a process visualization model for remote sensing image classification algorithms is constructed to analyze the current processing characteristics of process visualization in remote sensing application systems. The usability of the model is verified in a remote sensing application system with a remote sensing image classification algorithm based on support vector machines as an example. Given the characteristics of remote sensing applications that require high visualization process and a large amount of data processing, the basic process of an image classification algorithm for remote sensing applications is summarized by analyzing the basic process of existing image classification algorithms in remote sensing applications, taking into account the characteristics of process visualization. Based on the existing process of remote sensing image classification algorithm, a process visualization model is proposed. The model takes a goal-based process acts as the basic elements of the model, provides visualization functions and interfaces for human-computer interaction through a human-computer interaction selector, and uses a template knowledge base to save processing data and realize the description of customized processes. The model has little impact on the efficiency and accuracy of the support vector machine-based remote sensing image classification algorithm during the process of process visualization and customization. Finally, the application of the model to integrate business processing of earth observation can address the problem of process customization visualization for remote sensing applications to some extent.


Author(s):  
Kushalatha M R ◽  
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Prasantha H S ◽  
Beena R. Shetty ◽  
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...  

Hyperspectral Image (HSI) processing is the new advancement in image / signal processing field. The growth over the years is appreciable. The main reason behind the successful growth of the Hyperspectral imaging field is due to the enormous amount of spectral and spatial information that the imagery contains. The spectral band that the HSI which contains is also more in number. When an image is captured through the HSI cameras, it contains around 200-250 images of the same scene. Nowadays HSI is used extensively in the fields of environmental monitoring, Crop-Field monitoring, Classification, Identification, Remote sensing applications, Surveillance etc. The spectral and spatial information content present in Hyperspectral images are with high resolutions.Hyperspectral imaging has shown significant growth and widely used in most of the remote sensing applications due to its presence of information of a scene over hundreds of contiguous bands In. Hyperspectral Image Classification of materials is the critical application of HSI using Hyperspectral sensors. It collects hundreds of spectrum channels, where each channel consists of a sharp point of Electromagnetic Spectrum. The paper mainly focuses on Deep Learning techniques such as Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), and Support Vector machines (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN) for the accuracy in classification. Finally in the summary the current state-of-the-art scheme, a critical discussion after reviewing the research work by other professionals and organizing it into review-based paper, also implying about the present status on classification accuracy using neural networks is carried out.


Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1697
Author(s):  
Hui Li ◽  
Baoxin Hu ◽  
Qian Li ◽  
Linhai Jing

Deep learning (DL) has shown promising performances in various remote sensing applications as a powerful tool. To explore the great potential of DL in improving the accuracy of individual tree species (ITS) classification, four convolutional neural network models (ResNet-18, ResNet-34, ResNet-50, and DenseNet-40) were employed to classify four tree species using the combined high-resolution satellite imagery and airborne LiDAR data. A total of 1503 samples of four tree species, including maple, pine, locust, and spruce, were used in the experiments. When both WorldView-2 and airborne LiDAR data were used, the overall accuracies (OA) obtained by ResNet-18, ResNet-34, ResNet-50, and DenseNet-40 were 90.9%, 89.1%, 89.1%, and 86.9%, respectively. The OA of ResNet-18 was increased by 4.0% and 1.8% compared with random forest (86.7%) and support vector machine (89.1%), respectively. The experimental results demonstrated that the size of input images impacted on the classification accuracy of ResNet-18. It is suggested that the input size of ResNet models can be determined according to the maximum size of all tree crown sample images. The use of LiDAR intensity image was helpful in improving the accuracies of ITS classification and atmospheric correction is unnecessary when both pansharpened WorldView-2 images and airborne LiDAR data were used.


Author(s):  
S. Vijaya Rani ◽  
G. N. K. Suresh Babu

The illegal hackers  penetrate the servers and networks of corporate and financial institutions to gain money and extract vital information. The hacking varies from one computing system to many system. They gain access by sending malicious packets in the network through virus, worms, Trojan horses etc. The hackers scan a network through various tools and collect information of network and host. Hence it is very much essential to detect the attacks as they enter into a network. The methods  available for intrusion detection are Naive Bayes, Decision tree, Support Vector Machine, K-Nearest Neighbor, Artificial Neural Networks. A neural network consists of processing units in complex manner and able to store information and make it functional for use. It acts like human brain and takes knowledge from the environment through training and learning process. Many algorithms are available for learning process This work carry out research on analysis of malicious packets and predicting the error rate in detection of injured packets through artificial neural network algorithms.


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