Title
Fusing Multiseasonal Sentinel-2 Imagery for Urban Land Cover Classification With Multibranch Residual Convolutional Neural Networks
Abstract
Exploiting multitemporal Sentinel-2 images for urban land cover classification has become an important research topic, since these images have become globally available at relatively fine temporal resolution, thus offering great potential for large-scale land cover mapping. However, appropriate exploitation of the images needs to address problems such as cloud cover inherent to optical satellite imagery. To this end, we propose a simple yet effective decision-level fusion approach for urban land cover prediction from multiseasonal Sentinel-2 images, using the state-of-the-art residual convolutional neural networks (ResNet). We extensively tested the approach in a cross-validation manner over a seven-city study area in central Europe. Both quantitative and qualitative results demonstrated the superior performance of the proposed fusion approach over several baseline approaches, including observation- and feature-level fusion.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/LGRS.2019.2953497
IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Urban areas,Earth,Convolutional neural networks,Satellites,Europe,Remote sensing,Task analysis
Journal
17
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1545-598X
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chunping Qiu161.85
Lichao Mou225425.35
Michael Schmitt35912.37
Xiao Xiang Zhu4308.56