Abstract
Land cover is important for global change studies, and its accuracy and reliability are usually verified by field sampling, which costs a lot. A method was proposed for the verification of land cover datasets with the geo-tagged natural scene images using a convolutional neural network. The nature scene images were firstly collected from the Land Use and Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS) and global crowdsourcing images platform Flickr, then classified according to the Land Cover Classification System. The Nature Scene Image Classification (NSIC) model based on the GoogLeNet Inception network for recognition of natural scene images was then constructed. Finally, in the UK, as a verification area, the European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative Land Cover (ESA CCI-LC) datasets and the Global land-cover product with fine classification system (GLC-FCS) were verified using the NSIC-Inception model with the nature scene image set. The verification results showed that the overall accuracy verified by LUCAS was very close to the accuracy of the land cover product, which was 94.41% of CCI LC and 92.89% of GLC-FCS, demonstrating the feasibility of using geo-tagged images classified by the NSIC model. In addition, the VGG16 and ResNet50 were compared with GoogLeNet Inception. The differences in verification between LUCAS and Flickr images were discussed regarding the image’s quantity, the spatial distribution, the representativeness, and so on. The uncertainties of verification arising from differences in the spatial resolution of the different datasets were explored by CCI LC and GCL-FCS. The application of the method has great potential to support and improve the efficiency of land cover verification.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
The third comprehensive scientific investigation project in Xinjiang
Subject
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous),Computers in Earth Sciences,Geography, Planning and Development
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