MCSGNet: A Encoder–Decoder Architecture Network for Land Cover Classification

The analysis of land cover types is helpful for detecting changes in land use categories and evaluating land resources. It is of great significance in environmental monitoring, land management, land planning, and mapping. At present, remote sensing imagery obtained by remote sensing is widely employ...

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Main Authors: Kai Hu, Enwei Zhang, Xin Dai, Min Xia, Fenghua Zhou, Liguo Weng, Haifeng Lin
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-05-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/11/2810
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author Kai Hu
Enwei Zhang
Xin Dai
Min Xia
Fenghua Zhou
Liguo Weng
Haifeng Lin
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Enwei Zhang
Xin Dai
Min Xia
Fenghua Zhou
Liguo Weng
Haifeng Lin
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description The analysis of land cover types is helpful for detecting changes in land use categories and evaluating land resources. It is of great significance in environmental monitoring, land management, land planning, and mapping. At present, remote sensing imagery obtained by remote sensing is widely employed in the classification of land types. However, most of the existing methods have problems such as low classification accuracy, vulnerability to noise interference, and poor generalization ability. Here, a multi-scale contextual semantic guidance network is proposed for the classification of land cover types by deep learning. The whole model combines an attention mechanism with convolution to make up for the limitation that the convolution structure can only focus on local features. In the process of feature extraction, an interactive structure combining attention and convolution is introduced in the deep layer of the network to fully extract the abstract information. In this paper, the semantic information guidance module is introduced in the cross-layer connection part, ensuring that the semantic information between different levels can be used for mutual guidance, which is conducive to the classification process. A multi-scale fusion module is proposed at the decoder to fuse the features between different layers and avoid loss of information during the recovery process. Experiments on two public datasets demonstrate that the suggested approach has higher accuracy than existing models as well as strong generalization ability.
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spelling doaj.art-c93d6a40862b452ebeeee03e85f85de42023-11-18T08:29:00ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922023-05-011511281010.3390/rs15112810MCSGNet: A Encoder–Decoder Architecture Network for Land Cover ClassificationKai Hu0Enwei Zhang1Xin Dai2Min Xia3Fenghua Zhou4Liguo Weng5Haifeng Lin6Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, ChinaJiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, ChinaJiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, ChinaJiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, ChinaChina Air Separation Engineering Co., Ltd., Hangzhou 310051, ChinaJiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, ChinaCollege of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, ChinaThe analysis of land cover types is helpful for detecting changes in land use categories and evaluating land resources. It is of great significance in environmental monitoring, land management, land planning, and mapping. At present, remote sensing imagery obtained by remote sensing is widely employed in the classification of land types. However, most of the existing methods have problems such as low classification accuracy, vulnerability to noise interference, and poor generalization ability. Here, a multi-scale contextual semantic guidance network is proposed for the classification of land cover types by deep learning. The whole model combines an attention mechanism with convolution to make up for the limitation that the convolution structure can only focus on local features. In the process of feature extraction, an interactive structure combining attention and convolution is introduced in the deep layer of the network to fully extract the abstract information. In this paper, the semantic information guidance module is introduced in the cross-layer connection part, ensuring that the semantic information between different levels can be used for mutual guidance, which is conducive to the classification process. A multi-scale fusion module is proposed at the decoder to fuse the features between different layers and avoid loss of information during the recovery process. Experiments on two public datasets demonstrate that the suggested approach has higher accuracy than existing models as well as strong generalization ability.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/11/2810land classificationdeep learningremote sensing imagery
spellingShingle Kai Hu
Enwei Zhang
Xin Dai
Min Xia
Fenghua Zhou
Liguo Weng
Haifeng Lin
MCSGNet: A Encoder–Decoder Architecture Network for Land Cover Classification
Remote Sensing
land classification
deep learning
remote sensing imagery
title MCSGNet: A Encoder–Decoder Architecture Network for Land Cover Classification
title_full MCSGNet: A Encoder–Decoder Architecture Network for Land Cover Classification
title_fullStr MCSGNet: A Encoder–Decoder Architecture Network for Land Cover Classification
title_full_unstemmed MCSGNet: A Encoder–Decoder Architecture Network for Land Cover Classification
title_short MCSGNet: A Encoder–Decoder Architecture Network for Land Cover Classification
title_sort mcsgnet a encoder decoder architecture network for land cover classification
topic land classification
deep learning
remote sensing imagery
url https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/15/11/2810
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