Automatic Identification and Dynamic Monitoring of Open-Pit Mines Based on Improved Mask R-CNN and Transfer Learning

As the ecological problems caused by mine development become increasingly prominent, the conflict between mining activity and environmental protection is gradually intensifying. There is an urgent problem regarding how to effectively monitor mineral exploitation activities. In order to automatic ide...

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Main Authors: Chunsheng Wang, Lili Chang, Lingran Zhao, Ruiqing Niu
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-10-01
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author Chunsheng Wang
Lili Chang
Lingran Zhao
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description As the ecological problems caused by mine development become increasingly prominent, the conflict between mining activity and environmental protection is gradually intensifying. There is an urgent problem regarding how to effectively monitor mineral exploitation activities. In order to automatic identify and dynamically monitor open-pit mines of Hubei Province, an open-pit mine extraction model based on Improved Mask R-CNN (Region Convolutional Neural Network) and Transfer learning (IMRT) is proposed, a set of multi-source open-pit mine sample databases consisting of <i>Gaofen-1</i>, <i>Gaofen-2</i> and <i>Google Earth</i> satellite images with a resolution of two meters is constructed, and an automatic batch production process of open-pit mine targets is designed. In this paper, pixel-based evaluation indexes and object-based evaluation indexes are used to compare the recognition effect of IMRT, faster R-CNN, Maximum Likelihood (MLE) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). The IMRT model has the best performance in <i>Pixel Accuracy</i> (<i>PA</i>), <i>Kappa</i> and <i>MissingAlarm</i>, with values of 0.9718, 0.8251 and 0.0862, respectively, which shows that the IMRT model has a better effect on open-pit mine automatic identification, and the results are also used as evaluation units of the environmental damages of the mines. The evaluation results show that level Ⅰ (serious) land occupation and destruction of key mining areas account for 34.62%, and 36.2% of topographical landscape damage approached level I. This study has great practical significance in terms of realizing the coordinated development of mines and ecological environments.
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spelling doaj.art-6b34ff29fdfb4c9bb85b32f8739629962023-11-20T18:07:17ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922020-10-011221347410.3390/rs12213474Automatic Identification and Dynamic Monitoring of Open-Pit Mines Based on Improved Mask R-CNN and Transfer LearningChunsheng Wang0Lili Chang1Lingran Zhao2Ruiqing Niu3Institute of Geophysics & Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, ChinaInstitute of Geophysics & Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, ChinaInstitute of Geophysics & Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, ChinaInstitute of Geophysics & Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, ChinaAs the ecological problems caused by mine development become increasingly prominent, the conflict between mining activity and environmental protection is gradually intensifying. There is an urgent problem regarding how to effectively monitor mineral exploitation activities. In order to automatic identify and dynamically monitor open-pit mines of Hubei Province, an open-pit mine extraction model based on Improved Mask R-CNN (Region Convolutional Neural Network) and Transfer learning (IMRT) is proposed, a set of multi-source open-pit mine sample databases consisting of <i>Gaofen-1</i>, <i>Gaofen-2</i> and <i>Google Earth</i> satellite images with a resolution of two meters is constructed, and an automatic batch production process of open-pit mine targets is designed. In this paper, pixel-based evaluation indexes and object-based evaluation indexes are used to compare the recognition effect of IMRT, faster R-CNN, Maximum Likelihood (MLE) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). The IMRT model has the best performance in <i>Pixel Accuracy</i> (<i>PA</i>), <i>Kappa</i> and <i>MissingAlarm</i>, with values of 0.9718, 0.8251 and 0.0862, respectively, which shows that the IMRT model has a better effect on open-pit mine automatic identification, and the results are also used as evaluation units of the environmental damages of the mines. The evaluation results show that level Ⅰ (serious) land occupation and destruction of key mining areas account for 34.62%, and 36.2% of topographical landscape damage approached level I. This study has great practical significance in terms of realizing the coordinated development of mines and ecological environments.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/21/3474ecological problemsImproved Mask R-CNNtransfer learningmulti-sourceopen-pit mines
spellingShingle Chunsheng Wang
Lili Chang
Lingran Zhao
Ruiqing Niu
Automatic Identification and Dynamic Monitoring of Open-Pit Mines Based on Improved Mask R-CNN and Transfer Learning
Remote Sensing
ecological problems
Improved Mask R-CNN
transfer learning
multi-source
open-pit mines
title Automatic Identification and Dynamic Monitoring of Open-Pit Mines Based on Improved Mask R-CNN and Transfer Learning
title_full Automatic Identification and Dynamic Monitoring of Open-Pit Mines Based on Improved Mask R-CNN and Transfer Learning
title_fullStr Automatic Identification and Dynamic Monitoring of Open-Pit Mines Based on Improved Mask R-CNN and Transfer Learning
title_full_unstemmed Automatic Identification and Dynamic Monitoring of Open-Pit Mines Based on Improved Mask R-CNN and Transfer Learning
title_short Automatic Identification and Dynamic Monitoring of Open-Pit Mines Based on Improved Mask R-CNN and Transfer Learning
title_sort automatic identification and dynamic monitoring of open pit mines based on improved mask r cnn and transfer learning
topic ecological problems
Improved Mask R-CNN
transfer learning
multi-source
open-pit mines
url https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/21/3474
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