Scientific Data,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
11(1)
Published: Dec. 18, 2024
The
United
Nations
sustainable
development
agenda
emphasizes
the
importance
of
forests.
China's
forests
cover
5%
world's
forest
area,
significantly
influencing
global
climate
and
ecology.
In
recent
decades,
have
undergone
notable
changes.
Accurate
maps
are
crucial
for
understanding
distribution,
conducting
ecological
research
management.
However,
there
is
a
lack
satisfying
criteria.
To
this
issue,
study
focuses
on
developing
precise
16-m
resolution
map
China.
For
purpose,
we
propose
classification
framework
based
weakly
supervised
deep
learning
prior
knowledge
from
open
datasets.
Utilizing
GF-1
WFV
satellite
images,
generated
in
2020
named
FCM16.
FCM16
evaluated
using
136,385
sample
points,
achieving
an
overall
accuracy
94.64
±
0.12%,
producer's
91.12
0.27%
user's
87.31
0.34%.
Additionally,
was
compared
with
existing
forest-related
datasets,
demonstrating
its
reliability.
general,
effectively
represents
2020,
providing
valuable
resource
social
analysis.
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
130, P. 103929 - 103929
Published: May 25, 2024
In
the
quest
for
large-scale
photovoltaic
(PV)
panel
extraction,
substantial
data
volumes
are
essential,
given
demand
sub-meter
rooftop
PV
resolution.
This
requires
concept
of
Latent
Photovoltaic
Locations
(LPL)
to
reduce
scope
amount
subsequent
processing.
order
minimize
manual
annotation,
a
pioneering
weakly-supervised
framework
is
proposed,
which
capable
generating
pixel-level
annotations
segmentation
based
on
image-level
and
provides
two
datasets
required
classification-then-segmentation
strategy
without
more
annotations.
The
strong
noise-resistance
Segment
Anything
Model
(SAM)
discovered
in
extremely
difficult
rough
coarse
pseudo-label
refinement,
which,
after
integrating
probability
updating
mechanism,
achieves
seamless
transition
from
scene
classification
semantic
segmentation.
resulting
national
LPL
distribution
map,
rendered
at
2
m
resolution,
showcases
commendable
92
%
accuracy
F1-score
91
%,
advantages
terms
efficiency
have
been
verified
through
large
number
experiments.
process
explores
how
use
fundamental
models
accelerate
remote
sensing
information
extraction
process,
crucial
current
trajectory
deep
learning
sensing.
relevant
code
available
https://github.com/Github-YRQ/LPL.
Environmental Data Science,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
4
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Abstract
Photovoltaic
(PV)
energy
grows
rapidly
and
is
crucial
for
the
decarbonization
of
electric
systems.
However,
centralized
registries
recording
technical
characteristics
rooftop
PV
systems
are
often
missing,
making
it
difficult
to
monitor
this
growth
accurately.
The
lack
monitoring
could
threaten
integration
into
grid.
To
avoid
situation,
remote
sensing
using
deep
learning
has
emerged
as
a
promising
solution.
existing
techniques
not
reliable
enough
be
used
by
public
authorities
or
transmission
system
operators
(TSOs)
construct
up-to-date
statistics
on
fleet.
reliability
comes
from
models
being
sensitive
distribution
shifts.
This
work
comprehensively
evaluates
shifts’
effects
classification
accuracy
trained
detect
panels
overhead
imagery.
We
benchmark
isolate
sources
shifts
introduce
novel
methodology
that
leverages
explainable
artificial
intelligence
(XAI)
decomposition
input
image
model’s
decision
regarding
scales
understand
how
affect
models.
Finally,
based
our
analysis,
we
data
augmentation
technique
designed
improve
robustness
classifiers
under
varying
acquisition
conditions.
Our
proposed
approach
outperforms
competing
methods
can
close
gap
with
more
demanding
unsupervised
domain
adaptation
methods.
discuss
practical
recommendations
mapping
imagery
The
global
photovoltaic
(PV)
installed
capacity,
vital
for
the
electric
sector
decarbonation,
has
reached
1,552.3
GWp
in
2023.
In
France,
capacity
stood
April
2024
at
19.9
GWp.
growth
of
PV
over
a
year
was
nearly
32%
worldwide
and
15.7%
France.
However,
integrating
electricity
into
grids
is
hindered
by
poor
knowledge
rooftop
systems,
constituting
20%
France's
lack
measurements
production
stemming
from
these
systems.
This
problem
power
referred
to
as
observability.
Using
ground
truth
individual
available
an
unprecedented
temporal
spatial
scale,
we
show
that
estimating
system
combining
solar
irradiance
temperature
data,
characteristics
inferred
remote
sensing
methods
irradiation-to-electric
conversion
model
provides
accurate
estimations
production.
Our
study
shows
can
improve
observability,
thus
its
integration
grid,
using
little
information
on
simple
weather
data.
Earth s Future,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
12(10)
Published: Oct. 1, 2024
Abstract
Fire
significantly
contributes
to
greenhouse
gas
emissions.
The
current
global
burned
area
(BA)
products
mainly
have
coarse
native
spatial
resolution,
which
leads
underestimation
of
BA
and
carbon
emissions
from
biomass
burning.
Performances
in
Africa
GABAM
(30
m),
MCD64A1
(500
GFED4s
(0.25°),
FireCCI51
(250
GFED5
(0.25°)
were
compared.
From
2014
2020,
detected
the
most
BA,
1.58
times
more
than
during
same
period.
0.09
Mkm
2
on
average.
2016,
an
average
2.99
Africa,
was
1.03
GFED4s.
2021,
African
derived
2.89
,
1.22
MCD64A1.
increase
will
inevitably
lead
estimation
Based
GFED
framework,
we
estimated
vegetation
burning
2021
be
1113.25
Tg,
is
higher
GFED4s'
time
This
shows
that
use
high‐resolution
m)
estimate
can
effectively
avoid
overall
fire
Energies,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
17(13), P. 3204 - 3204
Published: June 29, 2024
With
the
popularity
of
solar
energy
in
electricity
market,
demand
rises
for
data
such
as
precise
locations
panels
efficient
planning
and
management.
However,
these
are
not
easily
accessible;
information
sometimes
does
exist.
Furthermore,
existing
datasets
training
semantic
segmentation
models
photovoltaic
(PV)
installations
limited,
their
annotation
is
time-consuming
labor-intensive.
Therefore,
additional
remote
sensing
(RS)
creation,
pix2pix
generative
adversarial
network
(GAN)
used,
enriching
original
resampled
varying
ground
sampling
distances
(GSDs)
without
compromising
integrity.
Experiments
with
DeepLabV3
model,
ResNet-50
backbone,
GAN
architecture
were
conducted
to
discover
advantage
using
GAN-based
augmentations
a
more
accurate
RS
imagery
model.
The
result
fine-tuned
panel
trained
transfer
learning
an
optimal
amount—60%
GAN-generated
data.
findings
demonstrate
benefits
images
data,
addressing
issue
limited
datasets,
increasing
IoU
F1
metrics
by
2%
1.46%,
respectively,
compared
classic
augmentations.