Title
Opium Poppy Detection Using Deep Learning.
Abstract
Opium poppies are a major source of traditional drugs, which are not only harmful to physical and mental health, but also threaten the economy and society. Monitoring poppy cultivation in key regions through remote sensing is therefore a crucial task; the location coordinates of poppy parcels represent particularly important information for their eradication by local governments. We propose a new methodology based on deep learning target detection to identify the location of poppy parcels and map their spatial distribution. We first make six training datasets with different band combinations and slide window sizes using two ZiYuan3 (ZY3) remote sensing images and separately train the single shot multibox detector (SSD) model. Then, we choose the best model and test its performance using 225 km(2) verification images from Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), which exhibits a precision of 95% for a recall of 85%. The speed of our method is 4.5 km(2)/s on 1080TI Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). This study is the first attempt to monitor opium poppies with the deep learning method and achieve a high recognition rate. Our method does not require manual feature extraction and provides an alternative way to rapidly obtain the exact location coordinates of opium poppy cultivation patches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/rs10121886
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
Field
DocType
remote sensing,object detection,opium poppy,deep learning,single shot multibox detector (SSD),Lao PDR
Remote sensing,Opium Poppy,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Geology,Multimedia
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
10
12
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiangyu Liu15114.10
Yichen Tian2175.87
Chao Yuan300.34
Feifei Zhang46119.93
guang yang57415.11