Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-2020
DOI
10.3390/rs12122000
Publication Title
Remote Sensing
Volume
12
Issue
12
Pages
1-17
Abstract
There is an emerging interest in using hyperspectral data for land cover classification. The motivation behind using hyperspectral data is the notion that increasing the number of narrowband spectral channels would provide richer spectral information and thus help improve the land cover classification performance. Although hyperspectral data with hundreds of channels provide detailed spectral signatures, the curse of dimensionality might lead to degradation in the land cover classification performance. Moreover, in some practical applications, hyperspectral data may not be available due to cost, data storage, or bandwidth issues, and RGB and near infrared (NIR) could be the only image bands available for land cover classification. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data is another type of data to assist land cover classification especially if the land covers of interest have different heights. In this paper, we examined the performance of two Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based deep learning algorithms for land cover classification using only four bands (RGB+NIR) and five bands (RGB+NIR+LiDAR), where these limited number of image bands were augmented using Extended Multi-attribute Profiles (EMAP). The deep learning algorithms were applied to a well-known dataset used in the 2013 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Data Fusion Contest. With EMAP augmentation, the two deep learning algorithms were observed to achieve better land cover classification performance using only four bands as compared to that using all 144 hyperspectral bands.
Original Publication Citation
Kwan, C., Ayhan, B., Budavari, B., Lu, Y., Perez, D., Li, J., ... & Plaza, A. (2020). Deep learning for land cover classification using only a few bands. Remote Sensing, 12(12), Article 2000. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12122000
Repository Citation
Kwan, Chiman; Ayhan, Bulent; Budavari, Bence; Lu, Yan; Perez, Daniel; Li, Jiang; Bernabe, Sergio; and Plaza, Antonio, "Deep Learning for Land Cover Classification Using Only a Few Bands" (2020). Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications. 257.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ece_fac_pubs/257
ORCID
0000-0003-0160-8926 (Perez), 0000-0003-0091-6986 (Li)
Comments
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