Extracting Citrus-Growing Regions by Multiscale UNet Using Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery

Citrus is an important commercial crop in many areas. The management and planning of citrus growing can be supported by timely and efficient monitoring of citrus-growing regions. Their complex planting structure and the weather are likely to cause problems for extracting citrus-growing regions from...

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Published in:Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2024-01, Vol.16 (1), p.36
Main Authors: Li, Yong, Liu, Wenjing, Ge, Ying, Yuan, Sai, Zhang, Tingxuan, Liu, Xiuhui
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
atrous spatial pyramid pooling
Citrus
Citrus fruits
Crops
Deep learning
Drones
extracting citrus-growing regions
Fruits
image pyramid
Mapping
Precipitation
Remote sensing
Rice
Satellite imagery
Semantics
Sentinel-2 satellite remote sensing
Time series
Topography
UNet
Vegetation
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Summary:Citrus is an important commercial crop in many areas. The management and planning of citrus growing can be supported by timely and efficient monitoring of citrus-growing regions. Their complex planting structure and the weather are likely to cause problems for extracting citrus-growing regions from remote sensing images. To accurately extract citrus-growing regions, deep learning is employed, because it has a strong feature representation ability and can obtain rich semantic information. A novel model for extracting citrus-growing regions by UNet that incorporates an image pyramid structure is proposed on the basis of the Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. A pyramid-structured encoder, a decoder, and multiscale skip connections are the three main components of the model. Additionally, atrous spatial pyramid pooling is used to prevent information loss and improve the ability to learn spatial features. The experimental results show that the proposed model has the best performance, with the precision, the intersection over union, the recall, and the F1-score reaching 88.96%, 73.22%, 80.55%, and 84.54%, respectively. The extracted citrus-growing regions have regular boundaries and complete parcels. Furthermore, the proposed model has greater overall accuracy, kappa, producer accuracy, and user accuracy than the object-oriented random forest algorithm that is widely applied in various fields. Overall, the proposed method shows a better generalization ability, higher robustness, greater accuracy, and less fragmented extraction results. This research can support the rapid and accurate mapping of large-scale citrus-growing regions.
ISSN:2072-4292
2072-4292
DOI:10.3390/rs16010036