Remote Sensing

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

SPNet: Siamese-Prototype Network for Few-Shot Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification

Gong Cheng, Liming Cai, Chunbo Lang, Xiwen Yao, Jinyong Chen, Lei Guo, Junwei Han

Summary: SPNet is a lightweight and effective few-shot image classification model, utilizing prototype self-calibration and intercalibration methods to generate more accurate prototypes and predictions through optimizing three loss functions, demonstrating competitive performance compared with other advanced few-shot image classification approaches.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Split Depth-Wise Separable Graph-Convolution Network for Road Extraction in Complex Environments From High-Resolution Remote-Sensing Images

Gaodian Zhou, Weitao Chen, Qianshan Gui, Xianju Li, Lizhe Wang

Summary: The article introduces a method to improve the accuracy of road extraction from high-resolution remote-sensing images using a split depth-wise separable graph convolutional network. The results of the experiment show that this method performs better in extracting covered and tiny roads.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Environmental Sciences

Global canopy height regression and uncertainty estimation from GEDI LIDAR waveforms with deep ensembles

Nico Lang, Nikolai Kalischek, John Armston, Konrad Schindler, Ralph Dubayah, Jan Dirk Wegner

Summary: NASA's GEDI mission aims to advance understanding of forests' role in the global carbon cycle. A novel supervised machine learning approach has been developed to interpret GEDI waveforms and regress canopy top height globally with reliable predictive uncertainty estimates.

REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Satellite Video Super-Resolution via Multiscale Deformable Convolution Alignment and Temporal Grouping Projection

Yi Xiao, Xin Su, Qiangqiang Yuan, Denghong Liu, Huanfeng Shen, Liangpei Zhang

Summary: A novel fusion strategy of temporal grouping projection and an accurate alignment module is proposed for satellite video super-resolution (VSR) in this article. By enhancing the alignment and fusion methods, the spatial resolution and dynamic analysis of satellite videos are effectively improved. Extensive experiments demonstrate that this method outperforms current state-of-the-art VSR methods on Jilin-1 satellite video.

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Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Development of a Dual-Attention U-Net Model for Sea Ice and Open Water Classification on SAR Images

Yibin Ren, Xiaofeng Li, Xiaofeng Yang, Huan Xu

Summary: This study developed a deep learning model, DAU-Net, to classify sea ice and open water from SAR images with high accuracy. By integrating the dual-attention mechanism into U-Net, improvements in pixel-level classification and IoU were achieved. Experimental results showed that DAU-Net outperformed the original U-Net and DenseNetFCN models.

IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Semisupervised Feature Extraction of Hyperspectral Image Using Nonlinear Geodesic Sparse Hypergraphs

Yule Duan, Hong Huang, Tao Wang

Summary: The article introduces a new method called GSMH, which is a geodesic-based sparse manifold hypergraph, to address the small sample problem in HSI data. This method utilizes geodesic distance and a geodesic-based neighborhood SR model to explore sparse correlations among different manifold neighborhoods, then constructs a pair of semisupervised hypergraphs to obtain nonlinear discriminative feature representation.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Dual-Aligned Oriented Detector

Gong Cheng, Yanqing Yao, Shengyang Li, Ke Li, Xingxing Xie, Jiabao Wang, Xiwen Yao, Junwei Han

Summary: This article presents a two-stage oriented object detection method, called dual-aligned oriented detector (DODet), to address the spatial and feature misalignment problems. DODet uses an oriented proposal network to generate high-quality proposals and a localization-guided detection head to alleviate the feature misalignment between classification and localization. Extensive evaluations on multiple benchmarks show consistent and substantial improvements compared to baseline methods.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Multistage Attention ResU-Net for Semantic Segmentation of Fine-Resolution Remote Sensing Images

Rui Li, Shunyi Zheng, Chenxi Duan, Jianlin Su, Ce Zhang

Summary: The study introduces a linear attention mechanism (LAM) to address the issue of increasing memory and computational costs of the dot-product attention mechanism with large-scale inputs, enhancing the flexibility and versatility of integration between attention mechanisms and deep networks.

IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS (2022)

Review Geochemistry & Geophysics

Low-Rank and Sparse Representation for Hyperspectral Image Processing: A Review

Jiangtao Peng, Weiwei Sun, Heng-Chao Li, Wei Li, Xiangchao Meng, Chiru Ge, Qian Du

IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING MAGAZINE (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification With Self-Supervised Paradigm Under Limited Labeled Samples

Chao Tao, Ji Qi, Weipeng Lu, Hao Wang, Haifeng Li

Summary: With the development of deep learning, supervised learning methods have shown good performance in remote sensing image scene classification. However, these methods require a large amount of labeled data for training. In this study, a new self-supervised learning mechanism is introduced to obtain high-performance pretraining models for scene classification from large unlabeled data. Experiments demonstrate that this new paradigm outperforms traditional ImageNet pretrained models, and the insights obtained can contribute to the development of self-supervised learning in the remote sensing community.

IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Multitask Semantic Boundary Awareness Network for Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

Aijin Li, Licheng Jiao, Hao Zhu, Lingling Li, Fang Liu

Summary: This study proposes a semantic boundary awareness network (SBANet) to extract boundary information of land cover in high-resolution remote sensing images. The SBANet utilizes a boundary attention module and adaptive weights of multitask learning to capture and learn boundary information. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of SBANet on 2-D semantic labeling datasets.

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Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Few-Shot SAR Target Classification via Metalearning

Kun Fu, Tengfei Zhang, Yue Zhang, Zhirui Wang, Xian Sun

Summary: The study introduces a metalearning framework named MSAR to tackle the few-shot SAR target classification issue. By analyzing the impact of available training classes on the performance of metalearning models, the few-task problem is defined and addressed using various techniques and methods.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Remote Sensing

Modified aquila optimizer for forecasting oil production

Mohammed A. A. Al-qaness, Ahmed A. Ewees, Hong Fan, Ayman Mutahar AlRassas, Mohamed Abd Elaziz

Summary: This study optimizes the parameters of the ANFIS model using a modified Aquila Optimizer with Opposition-Based learning technique to improve the accuracy of oil production estimation. The proposed AOOBL-ANFIS model outperforms the classic ANFIS model and other compared models, as validated by real-world oil production datasets and various performance metrics.

GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCE (2022)

Review Environmental Sciences

A Survey on Deep Learning-Based Change Detection from High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images

Huiwei Jiang, Min Peng, Yuanjun Zhong, Haofeng Xie, Zemin Hao, Jingming Lin, Xiaoli Ma, Xiangyun Hu

Summary: This paper provides a review of the latest progress and challenges in deep learning-based change detection algorithms using high-resolution remote sensing images, and suggests promising directions for future research.

REMOTE SENSING (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

When CNNs Meet Vision Transformer: A Joint Framework for Remote Sensing Scene Classification

Peifang Deng, Kejie Xu, Hong Huang

Summary: The study proposed a joint framework, CTNet, combining CNN and ViT to enhance the discriminative ability for HRRS scene classification. The method achieved high classification accuracy on AID and NWPU-RESISC45 datasets, demonstrating superior performance compared to other state-of-the-art methods.

IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

LO-Det: Lightweight Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

Zhanchao Huang, Wei Li, Xiang-Gen Xia, Hao Wang, Feiran Jie, Ran Tao

Summary: In this article, the authors propose a lightweight oriented object detector (LO-Det) for remote sensing object detection. They design a channel separation-aggregation (CSA) structure and a dynamic receptive field (DRF) mechanism to optimize efficiency and accuracy. They also introduce a diagonal support constraint head (DSC-Head) component to accurately and stably constrain the shape of oriented bounding boxes (OBBs). Experimental results demonstrate that LO-Det achieves fast runtime and competitive accuracy on embedded devices.

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Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Structure Consistency-Based Graph for Unsupervised Change Detection With Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Remote Sensing Images

Yuli Sun, Lin Lei, Xiao Li, Xiang Tan, Gangyao Kuang

Summary: This article proposes a structure consistency-based method for change detection in remote sensing images. By comparing the structures of two images instead of pixel values, the method demonstrates strong robustness and applicability to various scenarios. Additionally, the method shows effectiveness in both homogeneous and heterogeneous change detection, as well as in the seldom-studied case of heterogeneous change detection with multichannel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Through analysis and improvements on the nonlocal patch-based graph (NLPG), the method is made more accurate and robust.

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Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

A Novel Transformer Based Semantic Segmentation Scheme for Fine-Resolution Remote Sensing Images

Libo Wang, Rui Li, Chenxi Duan, Ce Zhang, Xiaoliang Meng, Shenghui Fang

Summary: The fully convolutional network (FCN) with an encoder-decoder architecture is widely used for semantic segmentation. In this paper, the authors propose using the Swin Transformer as the backbone and a novel decoder called DCFAM for better context extraction and resolution restoration. Experimental results on two remotely sensed semantic segmentation datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Robust Infrared Small Target Detection via Multidirectional Derivative-Based Weighted Contrast Measure

Ruitao Lu, Xiaogang Yang, Weipeng Li, Jiwei Fan, Dalei Li, Xin Jing

Summary: A novel small target detection method based on multidirectional derivatives is proposed, which can effectively separate targets from backgrounds. The method constructs a local contrast measure, integrates MDWCM maps from all derivative subbands to enhance detection robustness, and ultimately achieves adaptive segmentation and extraction of small targets.

IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS (2022)

Article Geochemistry & Geophysics

Deep Learning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Object Detection and Tracking: A Survey

Wu Xin, Wei Li, Hong Danfeng, Tao Ran, Qian Du

IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING MAGAZINE (2022)