Title
A Cascaded Spectral-Spatial CNN Model for Super-Resolution River Mapping With MODIS Imagery
Abstract
Rivers are important elements of the earth's ecosystem, and their spatial distribution information is critical for the study of hydrological and biogeochemical processes. Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) imagery has been widely used for river mapping due to its high temporal resolution and long-term observation records, which are essential to capture the rapid fluctuation of rivers. However, when the conventional hard classification methods are used, the accuracy of the river maps produced from MODIS data (and especially for those rivers with narrow widths) is often limited because mixed pixels are common in MODIS imagery, due to coarse spatial resolution. In this article, a cascaded spectral-spatial information combined deep convolutional neural network (CNN) model for super-resolution river mapping (DeepRivSRM) is proposed to produce Landsat-like fine-resolution river maps from MODIS images. In DeepRivSRM, a CNN made up of a spectral unmixing module and a super-resolution mapping (SRM) module is introduced to handle the spectral and spatial information simultaneously. Moreover, for training the DeepRivSRM model, an adaptive cross-entropy loss function incorporating the fraction information of the rivers is designed to improve the performance of the DeepRivSRM model for small rivers. The proposed method was evaluated with MODIS images from three test sites and was compared with hard classification, a conventional SRM method, and a CNN-based SRM (SRMCNN) method. The results show that DeepRivSRM can generate more accurate river maps by effectively learning the subpixel-scale spatial-spectral information in MODIS imagery.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TGRS.2021.3129789
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Adaptive cross-entropy loss function, deep learning, fraction image, moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS), river mapping, super-resolution mapping (SRM)
Journal
60
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0196-2892
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhixiang Yin111.71
Feng Ling200.34
Xinyan Li300.34
Xiaobin Cai400.34
Hong Chi500.34
Xiaodong Li617.45
Lihui Wang700.34
Yihang Zhang800.34
Yun Du900.34