Segmentation of arbitrary features in very high resolution remote sensing imagery

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Main Authors: Cording, Henry, Plancherel, Yves, Brito-Parada, Pablo
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author Cording, Henry
Plancherel, Yves
Brito-Parada, Pablo
author_facet Cording, Henry
Plancherel, Yves
Brito-Parada, Pablo
contents Very high resolution (VHR) mapping through remote sensing (RS) imagery presents a new opportunity to inform decision-making and sustainable practices in countless domains. Efficient processing of big VHR data requires automated tools applicable to numerous geographic regions and features. Contemporary RS studies address this challenge by employing deep learning (DL) models for specific datasets or features, which limits their applicability across contexts. The present research aims to overcome this limitation by introducing EcoMapper, a scalable solution to segment arbitrary features in VHR RS imagery. EcoMapper fully automates processing of geospatial data, DL model training, and inference. Models trained with EcoMapper successfully segmented two distinct features in a real-world UAV dataset, achieving scores competitive with prior studies which employed context-specific models. To evaluate EcoMapper, many additional models were trained on permutations of principal field survey characteristics (FSCs). A relationship was discovered allowing derivation of optimal ground sampling distance from feature size, termed Cording Index (CI). A comprehensive methodology for field surveys was developed to ensure DL methods can be applied effectively to collected data. The EcoMapper code accompanying this work is available at https://github.com/hcording/ecomapper .
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spellingShingle Segmentation of arbitrary features in very high resolution remote sensing imagery
Cording, Henry
Plancherel, Yves
Brito-Parada, Pablo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Very high resolution (VHR) mapping through remote sensing (RS) imagery presents a new opportunity to inform decision-making and sustainable practices in countless domains. Efficient processing of big VHR data requires automated tools applicable to numerous geographic regions and features. Contemporary RS studies address this challenge by employing deep learning (DL) models for specific datasets or features, which limits their applicability across contexts. The present research aims to overcome this limitation by introducing EcoMapper, a scalable solution to segment arbitrary features in VHR RS imagery. EcoMapper fully automates processing of geospatial data, DL model training, and inference. Models trained with EcoMapper successfully segmented two distinct features in a real-world UAV dataset, achieving scores competitive with prior studies which employed context-specific models. To evaluate EcoMapper, many additional models were trained on permutations of principal field survey characteristics (FSCs). A relationship was discovered allowing derivation of optimal ground sampling distance from feature size, termed Cording Index (CI). A comprehensive methodology for field surveys was developed to ensure DL methods can be applied effectively to collected data. The EcoMapper code accompanying this work is available at https://github.com/hcording/ecomapper .
title Segmentation of arbitrary features in very high resolution remote sensing imagery
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16046