This work presents a multitemporal class-driven hierarchical Residual Neural Network (ResNet) designed for modelling the classification of Time Series (TS) of multispectral images at different semantical class levels. The architecture consists of a modification of the ResNet where we introduce additional branches to perform the classification at the different hierarchy levels and leverage on hierarchy-penalty maps to discourage incoherent hierarchical transitions within the classification. In this way, we improve the discrimination capabilities of classes at different levels of semantic details and train a modular architecture that can be used as a backbone network for introducing new specific classes and additional tasks considering limited training samples available. We exploit the class-hierarchy labels to train efficiently the different layers of the architecture, allowing the first layers to train faster on the first levels of the hierarchy modeling general classes (i.e., the macro-classes) and the intermediate classes, while using the last ones to discriminate more specific classes (i.e., the micro-classes). In this way, the targets are constrained in following the hierarchy defined, improving the classification of classes at the most detailed level. The proposed modular network has intrinsic adaptation capability that can be obtained through fine tuning. The experimental results, obtained on two tiles of the Amazonian Forest on 12 monthly composites of Sentinel 2 images acquired during 2019, demonstrate the effectiveness of the hierarchical approach in both generalizing over different hierarchical levels and learning discriminant features for an accurate classification at the micro-class level on a new target area, with a better representation of the minoritarian classes.
Nowadays government and private agencies use remote sensing imagery for a wide range of applications from military applications to farm development. The images may be a panchromatic, multispectral, hyperspectral or even ultraspectral of terra bytes. Remote sensing image classification is one amongst the most significant application worlds for remote sensing. A few number of image classification algorithms have proved good precision in classifying remote sensing data. But, of late, due to the increasing spatiotemporal dimensions of the remote sensing data, traditional classification algorithms …
DMM: Disparity-guided Multispectral Mamba for Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（电子科技大学）；Beijing Institute of Space Mechanics and Electricity（北京空间机电研究所）；Donghai Laboratory（东海实验室）
SIGMAE: A Spectral-Index-Guided Foundation Model for Multispectral Remote Sensing
School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University（武汉大学人工智能学院）；School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Wuhan University of Science and Technology（武汉科技大学人工智能与自动化学院）；School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University of Science and Technology（武汉科技大学电子信息学院）；School of Computer Science, Wuhan University（武汉大学计算机学院）
Universidade da Beira Interior（贝拉 Interior 大学）；Zirak srl（齐拉克有限责任公司）；ECOATIVO - Associação de Proteção e Conservação da Natureza（ECOATIVO 自然保护与养护协会）
Remote sensing is the process of detecting and monitoring the physical characteristics of an area by measuring its reflected and emitted radiation at a distance. It is being broadly used to monitor ecosystems, mainly for their preservation. Ever-growing reports of invasive species have affected the natural balance of ecosystems. Exotic invasive species have a critical impact when introduced into new ecosystems and may lead to the extinction of native species. In this study, we focus on Ludwigia peploides, considered by the European Union as an aquatic invasive species. Its presence can negativ…
Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE)（埃及科学研究组）；Benha University（本哈大学）；Damietta University（达米埃塔大学）；Cairo University（开罗大学）
Remote sensing image fusion is an effective way to use a large volume of data from multisensor images. Most earth satellites such as SPOT, Landsat 7, IKONOS and QuickBird provide both panchromatic (Pan) images at a higher spatial resolution and multispectral (MS) images at a lower spatial resolution and many remote sensing applications require both high spatial and high spectral resolutions, especially for GIS based applications. An effective image fusion technique can produce such remotely sensed images. Image fusion is the combination of two or more different images to form a new image by us…
MO R-CNN: Multispectral Oriented R-CNN for Object Detection in Remote Sensing Image
College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University（四川大学电子信息工程学院）；School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University（福州大学机械工程与自动化学院）；Yunnan Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Yunnan University（云南软件工程重点实验室）
针对多光谱定向目标检测中模态差异与计算开销问题，提出轻量级框架 MO R-CNN，通过异构特征提取、单模态监督和条件标签融合提升检测性能。
In this paper a new method of image smoothing for satellite imagery and its applications in environmental remote sensing are presented. This method is based on the global gradient minimization over the whole image. With respect to the image discrete identity, the continuous minimization problem is discretized. Using the finite difference numerical method of differentiation, a simple yet efficient 5*5-pixel template is derived. Convolution of the derived template with the image in different bands results in the discrimination of various image elements. This method is extremely fast, besides bei…
School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University（清华大学航天航空学院）
Cross-modality fusing complementary information of multispectral remote sensing image pairs can improve the perception ability of detection algorithms, making them more robust and reliable for a wider range of applications, such as nighttime detection. Compared with prior methods, we think different features should be processed specifically, the modality-specific features should be retained and enhanced, while the modality-shared features should be cherry-picked from the RGB and thermal IR modalities. Following this idea, a novel and lightweight multispectral feature fusion approach with joint…
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science Rochester Institute of Technology（切斯特·F·卡尔森成像科学中心 罗切斯特理工学院）
Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have been used to achieve state-of-the-art performance on many computer vision tasks (e.g., object recognition, object detection, semantic segmentation) thanks to a large repository of annotated image data. Large labeled datasets for other sensor modalities, e.g., multispectral imagery (MSI), are not available due to the large cost and manpower required. In this paper, we adapt state-of-the-art DCNN frameworks in computer vision for semantic segmentation for MSI imagery. To overcome label scarcity for MSI data, we substitute real MSI for generated syn…
Most multispectral remote sensors (e.g. QuickBird, IKONOS, and Landsat 7 ETM+) provide low-spatial high-spectral resolution multispectral (MS) or high-spatial low-spectral resolution panchromatic (PAN) images, separately. In order to reconstruct a high-spatial/high-spectral resolution multispectral image volume, either the information in MS and PAN images are fused (i.e. pansharpening) or super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) is used with only MS images captured on different dates. Existing methods do not utilize temporal information of MS and high spatial resolution of PAN images together to …
In remote sensing, images acquired by various earth observation satellites tend to have either a high spatial and low spectral resolution or vice versa. Pansharpening is a technique which aims to improve spatial resolution of multispectral image. The challenges involve in the pansharpening are not only to improve the spatial resolution but also to preserve spectral quality of the multispectral image. In this paper, various pansharpening algorithms are discussed and classified based on approaches they have adopted. Using MATLAB image processing toolbox, several state-of-art pan-sharpening algor…
Shiraz University of Technology（设拉子理工大学）；Persian Gulf University（波斯湾大学）；Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University（伊斯兰阿扎德大学亚兹德分校）；Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University（伊斯兰阿扎德大学纳杰法巴德分校）
In interpretation of remote sensing images, it is possible that some images which are supplied by different sensors become incomprehensible. For better visual perception of these images, it is essential to operate series of pre-processing and elementary corrections and then operate a series of main processing steps for more precise analysis on the images. There are several approaches for processing which are depended on the type of remote sensing images. The discussed approach in this article, i.e. image fusion, is the use of natural colors of an optical image for adding color to a grayscale s…
Federal University of Santa Catarina（圣卡塔琳娜联邦大学）；Northeastern University（东北大学）；Catholic University of Pelotas（佩洛塔斯天主教大学）
Image fusion combines data from different heterogeneous sources to obtain more precise information about an underlying scene. Hyperspectral-multispectral (HS-MS) image fusion is currently attracting great interest in remote sensing since it allows the generation of high spatial resolution HS images, circumventing the main limitation of this imaging modality. Existing HS-MS fusion algorithms, however, neglect the spectral variability often existing between images acquired at different time instants. This time difference causes variations in spectral signatures of the underlying constituent mate…
SPEX: A Vision-Language Model for Land Cover Extraction on Spectral Remote Sensing Images
College of Computer Science and Technology, Xinjiang University（新疆大学计算机科学与技术学院）；iFlytek Co., Ltd.（iFlytek公司）；National Engineering Research Center of Speech and Language Information Processing（语音与语言信息处理国家工程研究中心）；School of Computer Science, Wuhan University（武汉大学计算机学院）；Zhongguancun Academy（中关村学院）；National Engineering Research Center for Multimedia Software（多媒体软件国家工程研究中心）；Hubei Key Laboratory of Multimedia and Network Communication Engineering, Wuhan University（湖北省多媒体与网络通信工程重点实验室，武汉大学）；State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University（测绘遥感信息工程国家重点实验室，武汉大学）
Hi-ResNet: Edge Detail Enhancement for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Segmentation
University of Southampton（南安普顿大学）；School of Computer Science, University of Sydney（悉尼大学计算机科学学院）；School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Southwest Jiaotong University（西南交通大学计算机与人工智能学院）
SatMamba: Development of Foundation Models for Remote Sensing Imagery Using State Space Models
University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University（越南国家大学工程技术大学）；International Digital Earth Applied Science Research Center, Chubu University（中部大学国际数字地球应用科学研究中心）
Spectral imaging enables spatially-resolved identification of materials in remote sensing, biomedicine, and astronomy. However, acquisition times require balancing spectral and spatial resolution with signal-to-noise. Hyperspectral imaging provides superior material specificity, while multispectral images are faster to collect at greater fidelity. We propose an approach for fusing hyperspectral and multispectral images to provide high-quality hyperspectral output. The proposed optimization leverages the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) to perform variable selection and r…
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have proven to be state of the art methods for many image classification tasks and their use is rapidly increasing in remote sensing problems. One of their major strengths is that, when enough data is available, CNN perform an end-to-end learning without the need of custom feature extraction methods. In this work, we study the use of different CNN architectures for cloud masking of Proba-V multispectral images. We compare such methods with the more classical machine learning approach based on feature extraction plus supervised classification. Experimental re…
German Aerospace Center (DLR)（德国航空航天中心）；Technical University of Munich (TUM)（慕尼黑工业大学）；University of Trento（特伦托大学）
Change detection is one of the central problems in earth observation and was extensively investigated over recent decades. In this paper, we propose a novel recurrent convolutional neural network (ReCNN) architecture, which is trained to learn a joint spectral-spatial-temporal feature representation in a unified framework for change detection in multispectral images. To this end, we bring together a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a recurrent neural network (RNN) into one end-to-end network. The former is able to generate rich spectral-spatial feature representations, while the latter e…
HetSSNet: Spatial-Spectral Heterogeneous Graph Learning Network for Panchromatic and Multispectral Images Fusion
the School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University（浙江大学计算机科学与技术学院）；the School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University（浙江大学软件学院）；Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院空天信息创新研究院）；the Innovation Center of Yangtze River Delta, Zhejiang University（浙江大学长三角创新中心）
Remote sensing data imputation using deep learning for multispectral imagery
Water Research Centre, University of New South Wales（新南威尔士大学水研究中心）；ARC ITTC Data Analytics for Resources and Environments, University of New South Wales（新南威尔士大学资源与环境数据分析师联盟）；Transitional Artificial Intelligence Research Group, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales（新南威尔士大学数学与统计学过渡人工智能研究组）
In recent years self-supervised learning has emerged as a promising candidate for unsupervised representation learning. In the visual domain its applications are mostly studied in the context of images of natural scenes. However, its applicability is especially interesting in specific areas, like remote sensing and medicine, where it is hard to obtain huge amounts of labeled data. In this work, we conduct an extensive analysis of the applicability of self-supervised learning in remote sensing image classification. We analyze the influence of the number and domain of images used for self-superv…
National University of Sciences and Technology（国家科技大学）；Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）
Pansharpening enhances spatial details of high spectral resolution multispectral images using features of high spatial resolution panchromatic image. There are a number of traditional pansharpening approaches but producing an image exhibiting high spectral and spatial fidelity is still an open problem. Recently, deep learning has been used to produce promising pansharpened images; however, most of these approaches apply similar treatment to both multispectral and panchromatic images by using the same network for feature extraction. In this work, we present present a novel dual attention-based …
This paper addresses the land cover classification task for remote sensing images by deep self-taught learning. Our self-taught learning approach learns suitable feature representations of the input data using sparse representation and undercomplete dictionary learning. We propose a deep learning framework which extracts representations in multiple layers and use the output of the deepest layer as input to a classification algorithm. We evaluate our approach using a multispectral Landsat 5 TM image of a study area in the North of Novo Progresso (South America) and the Zurich Summer Data Set pr…
In present days remote sensing is most used application in many sectors. This remote sensing uses different images like multispectral, hyper spectral or ultra spectral. The remote sensing image classification is one of the significant method to classify image. In this state we classify the maximum likelihood classification with fuzzy logic. In this we experimenting fuzzy logic like spatial, spectral texture methods in that different sub methods to be used for image classification.
Southwest Jiaotong University（西南交通大学）；Xinyang Normal University（信阳师范大学）
Over the past few decades, with the rapid development of global aerospace and aerial remote sensing technology, the types of sensors have evolved from the traditional monomodal sensors (e.g., optical sensors) to the new generation of multimodal sensors [e.g., multispectral, hyperspectral, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors]. These advanced devices can dynamically provide various and abundant multimodal remote sensing images with different spatial, temporal, and spectral resolutions according to different application requirements. Since then, it is of…
Remote sensor image object detection is an important technology for Earth observation, and is used in various tasks such as forest fire monitoring and ocean monitoring. Image object detection technology, despite the significant developments, is struggling to handle remote sensor images and small-scale objects, due to the limited pixels of small objects. Numerous existing studies have demonstrated that an effective way to promote small object detection is to introduce the spatial context. Meanwhile, recent researches for image classification have shown that spectral convolution operations can p…
University of South Carolina（南卡罗来纳大学）；East China Normal University（华东师范大学）
Nighttime satellite imagery has been applied in a wide range of fields. However, our limited understanding of how observed light intensity is formed and whether it can be simulated greatly hinders its further application. This study explores the potential of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGAN) in translating multispectral imagery to nighttime imagery. A popular cGAN framework, pix2pix, was adopted and modified to facilitate this translation using gridded training image pairs derived from Landsat 8 and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). The results of this study p…
A satellite image is a remotely sensed image data, where each pixel represents a specific location on earth. The pixel value recorded is the reflection radiation from the earth's surface at that location. Multispectral images are those that capture image data at specific frequencies across the electromagnetic spectrum as compared to Panchromatic images which are sensitive to all wavelength of visible light. Because of the high resolution and high dimensions of these images, they create difficulties for clustering techniques to efficiently detect clusters of different sizes, shapes and densitie…
Universidad Rey Juan Carlos（胡安·卡洛斯国王大学）；Universidad Industrial de Santander（桑坦德工业大学）
In remote sensing, hyperspectral (HS) and multispectral (MS) image fusion have emerged as a synthesis tool to improve the data set resolution. However, conventional image fusion methods typically degrade the performance of the land cover classification. In this paper, a feature fusion method from HS and MS images for pixel-based classification is proposed. More precisely, the proposed method first extracts spatial features from the MS image using morphological profiles. Then, the feature fusion model assumes that both the extracted morphological profiles and the HS image can be described as a …
In recent years, Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) has become a powerful source for reliable data in applications such as remote sensing, agriculture, and biomedicine. However, hyperspectral images are highly data-dense and often benefit from methods to reduce the number of spectral bands while retaining the most useful information for a specific application. We propose a novel band selection method to select a reduced set of wavelengths, obtained from an HSI system in the context of image classification. Our approach consists of two main steps: the first utilizes a filter-based approach to find rel…
This paper introduces warped Gaussian processes (WGP) regression in remote sensing applications. WGP models output observations as a parametric nonlinear transformation of a GP. The parameters of such prior model are then learned via standard maximum likelihood. We show the good performance of the proposed model for the estimation of oceanic chlorophyll content from multispectral data, vegetation parameters (chlorophyll, leaf area index, and fractional vegetation cover) from hyperspectral data, and in the detection of the causal direction in a collection of 28 bivariate geoscience and remote s…
This paper addresses the problem of remote sensing image pan-sharpening from the perspective of generative adversarial learning. We propose a novel deep neural network based method named PSGAN. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first attempts at producing high-quality pan-sharpened images with GANs. The PSGAN consists of two components: a generative network (i.e., generator) and a discriminative network (i.e., discriminator). The generator is designed to accept panchromatic (PAN) and multispectral (MS) images as inputs and maps them to the desired high-resolution (HR) MS images …
The Ohio State University（俄亥俄州立大学）；Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center（伯德极地与气候研究中心）
Remote sensing of the Earth's surface water is critical in a wide range of environmental studies, from evaluating the societal impacts of seasonal droughts and floods to the large-scale implications of climate change. Consequently, a large literature exists on the classification of water from satellite imagery. Yet, previous methods have been limited by 1) the spatial resolution of public satellite imagery, 2) classification schemes that operate at the pixel level, and 3) the need for multiple spectral bands. We advance the state-of-the-art by 1) using commercial imagery with panchromatic and …
Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院）；Twentieth Century Fox（二十世纪福克斯公司）；Starfleet Academy（星际舰队学院）；Tyrell Inc.（泰瑞尔公司）
Supervised learning techniques are at the center of many tasks in remote sensing. Unfortunately, these methods, especially recent deep learning methods, often require large amounts of labeled data for training. Even though satellites acquire large amounts of data, labeling the data is often tedious, expensive and requires expert knowledge. Hence, improved methods that require fewer labeled samples are needed. We present MSMatch, the first semi-supervised learning approach competitive with supervised methods on scene classification on the EuroSAT and UC Merced Land Use benchmark datasets. We te…
Unsupervised Hyperspectral and Multispectral Image Blind Fusion Based on Deep Tucker Decomposition Network with Spatial-Spectral Manifold Learning
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST)（南京理工大学计算机科学与工程学院）；Geological Exploration Technology Institute of Jiangsu Province（江苏省地质勘查技术院）；Jiangsu Province Engineering Research Center of Airborne Detecting and Intelligent Perceptive Technology（江苏省机载探测与智能感知技术工程研究中心）
ForCM: Forest Cover Mapping from Multispectral Sentinel-2 Image by Integrating Deep Learning with Object-Based Image Analysis
BRAC University（布拉克大学）；Charles Sturt University（查尔斯·斯特劳特大学）；University of New England（新英格兰大学）；University of Technology Sydney（技术悉尼大学）；Griffith University（格里菲斯大学）；Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)（马来亚大学）；Federation University Australia（联邦大学澳大利亚）；RMIT University（皇家墨尔本理工大学）
Intelligence and Space Research Division（情报与空间研究部）；Descartes Labs, Inc.（笛卡尔实验室公司）；Los Alamos National Laboratory（洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室）
This paper introduces a new method of generating realistic pervasive changes in the context of evaluating the effectiveness of change detection algorithms in controlled settings. The method, a cycle-consistent adversarial network (CycleGAN), requires low quantities of training data to generate realistic changes. Here we show an application of CycleGAN in creating realistic snow-covered scenes of multispectral Sentinel-2 imagery, and demonstrate how these images can be used as a test bed for anomalous change detection algorithms.
