Title
DeepSat - A Learning framework for Satellite Imagery
Abstract
Satellite image classification is a challenging problem that lies at the crossroads of remote sensing, computer vision, and machine learning. Due to the high variability inherent in satellite data, most of the current object classification approaches are not suitable for handling satellite datasets. The progress of satellite image analytics has also been inhibited by the lack of a single labeled high-resolution dataset with multiple class labels. The contributions of this paper are twofold -- (1) first, we present two new satellite datasets called SAT-4 and SAT-6, and (2) then, we propose a classification framework that extracts features from an input image, normalizes them and feeds the normalized feature vectors to a Deep Belief Network for classification. On the SAT-4 dataset, our best network produces a classification accuracy of 97.95% and outperforms three state-of-the-art object recognition algorithms, namely - Deep Belief Networks, Convolutional Neural Networks and Stacked Denoising Autoencoders by ~11%. On SAT-6, it produces a classification accuracy of 93.9% and outperforms the other algorithms by ~15%. Comparative studies with a Random Forest classifier show the advantage of an unsupervised learning approach over traditional supervised learning techniques. A statistical analysis based on Distribution Separability Criterion and Intrinsic Dimensionality Estimation substantiates the effectiveness of our approach in learning better representations for satellite imagery.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2820783.2820816
SIGSPATIAL/GIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Satellite Imagery, Deep Learning, High Resolution
Feature vector,Pattern recognition,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Deep belief network,Supervised learning,Unsupervised learning,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Random forest,Machine learning,Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1509.03602
27
1.18
References 
Authors
19
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Saikat Basu1857.05
Sangram Ganguly213620.73
supratik mukhopadhyay326739.44
Robert DiBiano4544.79
Manohar Karki5524.12
Ramakrishna R. Nemani645591.96