Author:
Elamin Ahmed,El-Rabbany Ahmed
Abstract
Accurate and up-to-date land cover classification information is essential for many applications, such as land-use change detection, global environmental change, and forest management, among others. Unoccupied aerial systems (UASs) provide the advantage of flexible and rapid data acquisition at low cost compared to conventional platforms, such as satellite and airborne systems. UASs are often equipped with high spatial resolution cameras and/or light detection and ranging (LiDAR). However, the high spatial resolution imagery has a high information content, which makes land cover classification quite challenging. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have been effectively applied to remote sensing applications, which overcome the drawback of traditional techniques. In this research, a low-cost UAV-based multi-sensor data fusion model was developed for land cover classification based on a DCNN. For the purpose of this research, two datasets were collected at two different urban locations using two different UASs. A DCNN model, based on U-net with Resnet101 as a backbone, was used to train and test the fused image/LiDAR data. The maximum likelihood and support vector machine techniques were used as a reference for classifier comparison. It was shown that the proposed DCNN approach improved the overall accuracy of land cover classification for the first dataset by 15% compared to the reference classifiers. In addition, the overall accuracy of land cover classification improved by 7%, and the precision, recall, and F-measure improved by 18% when the fused image/LiDAR data were used compared to the images only. The trained DCNN model was also tested on the second dataset, and the obtained results were largely similar to those of the first dataset.
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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