Affiliation:
1. Inner Mongolia Agricultural University
2. Chinese Academy of Forestry
3. Liaoning Technical University
Abstract
Abstract
Complete and accurate burned area map data are needed to document spatial and temporal patterns of fires, to quantify their drivers, and to assess the impacts on human and natural systems. To achieve the the purpose of identifying burned area accurately and efficiency from remote sensing images, a lightweight deep learning model is proposed based on Deeplab V3+, which employs the combination of attention mechanism and deep transitive transfer learning (DTTL) strategy. The lightweight MobileNet V2 network integrated with Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) is designed as the backbone network to replace the traditional time-consuming Xception of Deeplab V3+. The attention mechanism is introduced to enhance the recognition ability of the proposed deep learning model, and the deep transitive transfer learning strategy is adopted to solve the problem of incorrect identification of the burned area and discontinuous edge details caused by insufficient sample size during the extraction process. For the process of DTTL, the improved Deeplab V3 + network was first pre-trained on ImageNet. Sequentially, WorldView-2 and the Sentinel-2 dataset were employed to train the proposed network based on the ImageNet pre-trained weights. Experiments were conducted to extract burned area from remote sensing images based on the trained model, and the results show that the proposed methodology can improve extraction accuracy with OA of 92.97% and Kappa of 0.819, which is higher than the comparative methods, and it can reduce the training time at the same time. We applied this methodology to identify the burned area in Western Attica region of Greece, and a satisfactory result was achieved with. OA of 93.58% and Kappa of 0.8265. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of the improved Deeplab V3 + in identifying forest burned area. which can provide valuable information for forest protection and monitoring.
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC
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