Title
Integration of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data for Land Cover Mapping Using W-Net.
Abstract
In this paper, we present a new approach to the fusion of Sentinel 1 (S1) and Sentinel 2 (S2) data for land cover mapping. The proposed solution aims at improving methods based on Sentinel 2 data, that are unusable in case of cloud cover. This goal is achieved by using S1 data to generate S2-like segmentation maps to be used to integrate S2 acquisitions forbidden by cloud cover. In particular, we propose for the first time in remote sensing a multi-temporal W-Net approach for the segmentation of Interferometric Wide swath mode (IW) Sentinel-1 data collected along ascending/descending orbit to discriminate rice, water, and bare soil. The quantitative assessment of segmentation accuracy shows an improvement of 0.18 and 0.25 in terms of accuracy and F1-score by applying the proposed multi-temporal procedure with respect to the previous single-date approach. Advantages and disadvantages of the proposed W-Net based solution have been tested in the National Park of Albufera, Valencia, and we show a performance gain in terms of the classical metrics used in segmentation tasks and the computational time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/s20102969
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
synthetic aperture radar,image segmentation,rice monitoring,convolutional neural network,data fusion,time-series analysis,sentinel data
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Massimiliano Gargiulo141.20
Domenico A G Dell'Aglio200.34
Antonio Iodice345373.07
Daniele Riccio4781118.99
Giuseppe Ruello516436.57