<p>With more and more remote sensing data available on a&#xa0;global scale, the Earth observation community strives to harness the power of modern deep learning techniques by developing globally applicable models. However, remote sensing images exhibit strongly heterogeneous, geolocation-dependent characteristics, making this a&#xa0;challenging endeavor. In this paper, we introduce the geolocation-aware deep coding strategy to incorporate geolocation information of remote sensing data into the training of the deep learning models. The proposed method consists of defining regional subnetworks dedicated to each subset of the dataset with similar geolocational characteristics. Using two application examples, namely the mapping of building footprints from multi-spectral Sentinel‑2 imagery, and the task of forest detection from single-channel thermal infrared Landsat imagery, we show that the proposed deep coding strategy stabilizes the training performance and can also improve the predictive power of deep neural networks designed for remote sensing data analysis.</p>

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Geolocation-Aware Deep Coding

  • Mojgan Madadikhaljan,
  • Michael Schmitt

摘要

With more and more remote sensing data available on a global scale, the Earth observation community strives to harness the power of modern deep learning techniques by developing globally applicable models. However, remote sensing images exhibit strongly heterogeneous, geolocation-dependent characteristics, making this a challenging endeavor. In this paper, we introduce the geolocation-aware deep coding strategy to incorporate geolocation information of remote sensing data into the training of the deep learning models. The proposed method consists of defining regional subnetworks dedicated to each subset of the dataset with similar geolocational characteristics. Using two application examples, namely the mapping of building footprints from multi-spectral Sentinel‑2 imagery, and the task of forest detection from single-channel thermal infrared Landsat imagery, we show that the proposed deep coding strategy stabilizes the training performance and can also improve the predictive power of deep neural networks designed for remote sensing data analysis.