Title
TanDEM-X Forest Mapping Using Convolutional Neural Networks.
Abstract
In this work, we face the problem of forest mapping from TanDEM-X data by means of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Our study aims to highlight the relevance of domain-related features for the extraction of the information of interest thanks to their joint nonlinear processing through CNN. In particular, we focus on the main InSAR features as the backscatter, coherence, and volume decorrelation, as well as the acquisition geometry through the local incidence angle. By using different state-of-the-art CNN architectures, our experiments consistently demonstrate the great potential of deep learning in data fusion for information extraction in the context of synthetic aperture radar signal processing and specifically for the task of forest mapping from TanDEM-X images. We compare three state-of-the-art CNN architectures, such as ResNet, DenseNet, and U-Net, obtaining a large performance gain over the baseline approach for all of them, with the U-Net solution being the most effective one.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/rs11242980
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
synthetic aperture radar,digital elevation model,image segmemtation,forest classification,target detection,convolutional neural network,data fusion
Journal
11
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
24
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonio Mazza141.20
francescopaolo sica2133.92
Paola Rizzoli301.69
Giuseppe Scarpa420423.23