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Seeded Classification of Satellite Image Time Series with Lower-Bounded Dynamic Time Warping

Journal

REMOTE SENSING
Volume 14, Issue 12, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs14122778

Keywords

satellite image time series; SITS; dynamic time warping; classification; lower bound

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [42061064, 41701399]

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This paper proposes a seeded SITS classification method based on lower-bounded Dynamic Time Warping, which only requires a few labeled samples and uses a combination of cascading lower bounds and early abandoning of DTW as an accurate yet efficient similarity measure. Experimental results demonstrate the utility of this method for SITS classification in large-scale tasks.
Satellite Image Time Series (SITS) record the continuous temporal behavior of land cover types and thus provide a new perspective for finer-grained land cover classification compared with the usual spectral and spatial information contained in a static image. In addition, SITS data is becoming more accessible in recent years due to newly launched satellites and accumulated historical data. However, the lack of labeled training samples limits the exploration of SITS data, especially with sophisticated methods. Even with a straightforward classifier, such as k-nearest neighbor, the accuracy and efficiency of the SITS similarity measure is also a pending problem. In this paper, we propose SKNN-LB-DTW, a seeded SITS classification method based on lower-bounded Dynamic Time Warping (DTW). The word seeded indicates that only a few labeled samples are required, and this is not only because of the lack of labeled samples but also because of our aim to explore the rich information contained in SITS, rather than letting training samples dominate the classification results. We use a combination of cascading lower bounds and early abandoning of DTW as an accurate yet efficient similarity measure for large scale tasks. The experimental results on two real SITS datasets demonstrate the utility of the proposed SKNN-LB-DTW, which could become an effective solution for SITS classification when the amount of unlabeled SITS data far exceeds the labeled data.

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