Affiliation:
1. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Land Use and Consolidation, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
2. Institute of Ecological Environment Protection, Guangxi Eco-Engineering Vocational and Technical College, Liuzhou 545004, China
Abstract
Accurate cropland information is crucial for the assessment of food security and the formulation of effective agricultural policies. Extracting cropland from remote sensing imagery is challenging due to spectral diversity and mixed pixels. Recent advances in remote sensing technology have facilitated the availability of very high-resolution (VHR) remote sensing images that provide detailed ground information. However, VHR cropland extraction in southern China is difficult because of the high heterogeneity and fragmentation of cropland and the insufficient observations of VHR sensors. To address these challenges, we proposed a deep learning-based method for automated high-resolution cropland extraction. The method used an improved HRRS-U-Net model to accurately identify the extent of cropland and explicitly locate field boundaries. The HRRS-U-Net maintained high-resolution details throughout the network to generate precise cropland boundaries. Additionally, the residual learning (RL) and the channel attention mechanism (CAM) were introduced to extract deeper discriminative representations. The proposed method was evaluated over four city-wide study areas (Qingyuan, Yangjiang, Guangzhou, and Shantou) with a diverse range of agricultural systems, using GaoFen-2 (GF-2) images. The cropland extraction results for the study areas had an overall accuracy (OA) ranging from 97.00% to 98.33%, with F1 scores (F1) of 0.830–0.940 and Kappa coefficients (Kappa) of 0.814–0.929. The OA was 97.85%, F1 was 0.915, and Kappa was 0.901 over all study areas. Moreover, our proposed method demonstrated advantages compared to machine learning methods (e.g., RF) and previous semantic segmentation models, such as U-Net, U-Net++, U-Net3+, and MPSPNet. The results demonstrated the generalization ability and reliability of the proposed method for cropland extraction in southern China using VHR remote images.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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