Affiliation:
1. Department of Global Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan
2. Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8568, Japan
3. Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Abstract
Information regarding land use and land cover (LULC) is essential for regional land and forest management. The contribution of reliable LULC information remains a challenge depending on the use of remote sensing data and classification methods. This study conducted a multiclass LULC classification of an intricate mangrove ecosystem using the U-Net model with PlanetScope and Sentinel-2 imagery and compared it with an artificial neural network model. We mainly used the blue, green, red, and near-infrared bands, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), and normalized difference water index (NDWI) of each satellite image. The Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and Canopy Height Model (CHM) were also integrated to leverage the model performance in mixed ecosystems of mangrove and non-mangrove forest areas. Through a labeled image created from field ground truth points, the models were trained and evaluated using the metrics of overall accuracy, Intersection over Union, F1 score, precision, and recall of each class. The results demonstrated that the combination of PlanetScope bands, spectral indices, DEM, and CHM yielded superior performance for both the U-Net and ANN models, achieving a higher overall accuracy (94.05% and 92.82%), mean IoU (0.82 and 0.79), mean F1 scores (0.94 and 0.93), recall (0.94 and 0.93), and precision (0.94). In contrast, models utilizing the Sentinel-2 dataset showed lower overall accuracy (86.94% and 82.08%), mean IoU (0.71 and 0.63), mean F1 scores (0.87 and 0.81), recall (0.87 and 0.82), and precision (0.87 and 0.81). The best-classified image, which was produced by U-Net using the PlanetScope dataset, was exported to create an LULC map of the Wunbaik Mangrove Area in Myanmar.
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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