Deep Learning for Very-High Resolution Land-Cover Mapping (Second Edition)
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 933
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land cover mapping; urban remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning; geoinformation; very high resolution; object-based image analysis; big data; automation; change detection; uncertainty; human geography
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Interests: remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are launching the second Special Issue of Remote Sensing to be released under the title ‘Deep Learning for Very-High Resolution Land-Cover Mapping’.
In the field of remote sensing, land-cover mapping has always been a popular subject, which is attributable to the fact that land-cover data are essential for a multitude of applications. Due to their detailed resolution, very high-resolution imagery is a privileged tool for studying the Earth’s surface, and a large number of publications on land-cover mapping from such data have been published. For a long time, pixel-oriented and object-oriented approaches, using either rule-based classifications or conventional machine learning algorithms, have been well established and used by a majority of the community to produce land-cover maps from very high-resolution Earth observation data. However, since 2015, deep learning techniques from computer vision have made their way into the remote sensing field and have since been successfully applied for various applications. While deep learning approaches can largely outperform conventional machine learning approaches for some tasks, several studies have shown that, instead, conventional machine learning and object-oriented classification approaches still perform better in some contexts.
For this Special Issue, we welcome state-of-the-art research or review papers that are focused on land-cover mapping from very high-resolution Earth observation data, using deep learning methods and addressing topics, including (but not limited to) the following: architecture comparison; data fusion; comparison of conventional machine learning and deep learning approaches; deep learning model comprehension; explainable deep learning; weak supervision and semi-supervision; scene classification; semantic segmentation; instance segmentation; change detection; existing land-cover map enrichment.
Dr. Lei Ma
Dr. Claudio Persello
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- deep learning
- explainable deep learning
- land-cover mapping
- geo-information extraction
- very high-resolution images
- data augmentation
- data fusion
- semantic segmentation
- instance segmentation
- change detection
- weak and semi-supervision
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