IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
60, P. 1 - 16
Published: Jan. 1, 2022
Urban
informal
settlements
(UIS)
are
high-density
population
with
low
standards
of
living
and
supply.
UIS
semantic
segmentation,
which
identifies
pixels
corresponding
to
in
remote
sensing
images,
is
crucial
the
estimation
poor
communities,
urban
management,
resource
allocation,
future
planning,
particularly
megacities.
However,
most
studies
on
settlement
mapping
either
based
parcels
(image
classification)
or
(semantic
segmentation).
Few
utilize
object
information
improve
mapping.
Since
formed
by
buildings
(objects),
utilizing
can
segmentation.
Furthermore,
current
mainly
focus
using
single-modality
there
a
lack
related
research
multimodal
data.
Due
spatial
heterogeneity
settlements,
only
single
modality
image
features
limits
effectiveness
accuracy
Aiming
at
achieving
fine-scale
results,
this
paper
proposes
segmentation
method,
namely
UisNet,
that
utilizes
transformer-based
block
receive
data,
including
high-spatial-resolution
images
(parcel-
pixel-level)
building
polygon
data
(object-level)
identify
UIS.
The
experiments
were
conducted
Shenzhen
City,
they
confirmed
superior
performance
achieved
an
overall
(OA)
94.80%
mean
intersection
over
union
(mIoU)
85.51%
testing
set
manually
labeled
dataset
(UIS-Shenzhen
dataset)
outperformed
best
models
tasks.
Besides,
we
add
public
(GID
compare
our
method
state-of-the-art
methods.
Experiments
show
proposed
UisNet
improves
mIoU
1.64%
7.58%
compared
other
This
work
will
be
available
https://github.com/RunyuFan/.
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
112, P. 102926 - 102926
Published: July 26, 2022
With
the
extremely
rapid
advances
in
remote
sensing
(RS)
technology,
a
great
quantity
of
Earth
observation
(EO)
data
featuring
considerable
and
complicated
heterogeneity
are
readily
available
nowadays,
which
renders
researchers
an
opportunity
to
tackle
current
geoscience
applications
fresh
way.
joint
utilization
EO
data,
much
research
on
multimodal
RS
fusion
has
made
tremendous
progress
recent
years,
yet
these
developed
traditional
algorithms
inevitably
meet
performance
bottleneck
due
lack
ability
comprehensively
analyze
interpret
strongly
heterogeneous
data.
Hence,
this
non-negligible
limitation
further
arouses
intense
demand
for
alternative
tool
with
powerful
processing
competence.
Deep
learning
(DL),
as
cutting-edge
witnessed
remarkable
breakthroughs
numerous
computer
vision
tasks
owing
its
impressive
representation
reconstruction.
Naturally,
it
been
successfully
applied
field
fusion,
yielding
improvement
compared
methods.
This
survey
aims
present
systematic
overview
DL-based
fusion.
More
specifically,
some
essential
knowledge
about
topic
is
first
given.
Subsequently,
literature
conducted
trends
field.
Some
prevalent
sub-fields
then
reviewed
terms
to-be-fused
modalities,
i.e.,
spatiospectral,
spatiotemporal,
light
detection
ranging-optical,
synthetic
aperture
radar-optical,
RS-Geospatial
Big
Data
Furthermore,
We
collect
summarize
valuable
resources
sake
development
Finally,
remaining
challenges
potential
future
directions
highlighted.
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
112, P. 102936 - 102936
Published: Aug. 1, 2022
Urban
Geography
studies
forms,
social
fabrics,
and
economic
structures
of
cities
from
a
geographic
perspective.
Catalysed
by
the
increasingly
abundant
spatial
big
data,
seeks
new
models
research
paradigms
to
explain
urban
phenomena
address
issues.
Recent
years
have
witnessed
significant
advances
in
spatially-explicit
geospatial
artificial
intelligence
(GeoAI),
which
integrates
AI,
primarily
focusing
on
incorporating
thinking
concept
into
deep
learning
for
studies.
This
paper
provides
an
overview
techniques
applications
GeoAI
based
581
papers
identified
using
systematic
review
approach.
We
examined
screened
three
scopes
(Urban
Dynamics,
Social
Differentiation
Areas,
Sensing)
found
that
although
is
trending
topic
geography
neural
network-based
methods
are
proliferating,
development
still
at
their
early
phase.
challenges
existing
advised
future
direction
towards
developing
multi-scale
explainable
GeoAI.
acquaints
beginners
with
basics
state-of-the-art
serve
as
inspiration
attract
more
exploring
potential
studying
socio-economic
dimension
city
life.
Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
15(5), P. 1307 - 1307
Published: Feb. 26, 2023
During
the
past
decades,
multiple
remote
sensing
data
sources,
including
nighttime
light
images,
high
spatial
resolution
multispectral
satellite
unmanned
drone
and
hyperspectral
among
many
others,
have
provided
fresh
opportunities
to
examine
dynamics
of
urban
landscapes.
In
meantime,
rapid
development
telecommunications
mobile
technology,
alongside
emergence
online
search
engines
social
media
platforms
with
geotagging
has
fundamentally
changed
how
human
activities
landscape
are
recorded
depicted.
The
combination
these
two
types
sources
results
in
explosive
mind-blowing
discoveries
contemporary
studies,
especially
for
purposes
sustainable
planning
development.
Urban
scholars
now
equipped
abundant
theoretical
arguments
that
often
result
from
limited
indirect
observations
less-than-ideal
controlled
experiments.
For
first
time,
can
model,
simulate,
predict
changes
using
real-time
produce
most
realistic
results,
providing
invaluable
information
planners
governments
aim
a
healthy
future.
This
current
study
reviews
development,
status,
future
trajectory
studies
facilitated
by
advancement
big
analytical
technologies.
review
attempts
serve
as
bridge
between
growing
“big
data”
modern
communities.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
61, P. 1 - 19
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
Traditional
building
and
water
segmentation
methods
are
vulnerable
to
noise
interference,
hence
they
could
not
avoid
missed
false
detections
in
the
detection
process.
Excessive
deep
learning
downsampling
would
lead
significant
loss
of
feature
map
information,
image
location
information
offset,
overall
effect
falling
apart.
To
address
these
issues,
a
Multi-Scale
Location
Attention
Network
(MSLA)
is
proposed.
Location-spatial
channel
particularly
important
for
edge
detail
cover.
The
network
includes
Channel
Unit
(LCA)
focus
on
tributary
details
rivers
eaves.
Moreover,
this
paper
builds
Dual-Branch
Aggregation
(DBMSA)
obtain
deeper
multi-scale
semantic
information.
Finally,
Fusion
(MSF)
used
guide
merging
multiple
stages,
boundary
improved
by
splicing
acquired
with
relevant
extraction
layer
downsampling.
experimental
results
several
datasets
show
that
proposed
approach
outperforms
other
methodologies
accuracy.
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
62, P. 1 - 14
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Current
transformer-based
change
detection
(CD)
approaches
either
employ
a
pre-trained
model
trained
on
large-scale
image
classification
ImageNet
dataset
or
rely
first
pre-training
another
CD
and
then
fine-tuning
the
target
benchmark.
This
current
strategy
is
driven
by
fact
that
transformers
typically
require
large
amount
of
training
data
to
learn
inductive
biases,
which
insufficient
in
standard
datasets
due
their
small
size.
We
develop
an
end-to-end
approach
with
from
scratch
yet
achieves
state-of-the-art
performance
five
benchmarks.
Instead
using
conventional
self-attention
struggles
capture
biases
when
scratch,
our
architecture
utilizes
shuffled
sparse-attention
operation
focuses
selected
sparse
informative
regions
inherent
characteristics
data.
Moreover,
we
introduce
change-enhanced
feature
fusion
(CEFF)
module
fuse
features
input
pairs
performing
per-channel
re-weighting.
Our
CEFF
aids
enhancing
relevant
semantic
changes
while
suppressing
noisy
ones.
Extensive
experiments
reveal
merits
proposed
contributions,
achieving
gains
as
high
1.35%
intersection
over
union
(IoU)
score,
compared
best-published
results
literature.
Code
available
at
https://github.com/mustansarfiaz/ScratchFormer.
Ecological Indicators,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
161, P. 111969 - 111969
Published: April 1, 2024
As
the
fourth
pole
of
China's
economic
growth,
Chengdu-Chongqing
urban
agglomeration
plays
a
significant
role
in
reinforcing
ecological
barrier
upper
reaches
Yangtze
River,
and
is
crucial
for
environmental
protection
strategies.
In
this
paper,
Google
Earth
Engine
(GEE)
MODIS
images
from
2000,
2005,
2010,
2015,
2022
were
utilized
to
construct
Improved
Remote
Sensing
Ecological
Index
(IRSEI)
characterize
quality
more
accurately
than
RSEI.
Additionally,
combined
with
nighttime
light
remote
sensing
data,
land
use
data
socio-economic
GDP
sub-industry
spatialization
model
was
analyze
urbanization
process
depth.
To
dynamically
monitor
evaluate
interaction
between
environment
quality,
coupling
coordination
incorporating
above
methods
developed.
The
results
show
that
(1)
effective
information
IRSEI
analysis
increased
by
3.26%
compared
RSEI,
correlation
each
index
higher;
(2)
peaked
2005
has
been
declining
since
then,
rate
decline
gradually
slowing
down
2022;
(3)
suitable
characterizing
scattered
villages,
can
effectively
exhibit
process.
From
2000
2022,
rapidly
developed,
level
core
cities
such
as
Chengdu
Chongqing
far
exceeded
those
neighboring
cities;
(4)
generally
increased,
indicating
ongoing
improvements
synergy
agglomeration.
This
study
developed
method
quickly
monitoring
assessing
relationship
using
model,
provides
scientific
analytical
support
governing
emerging
agglomerations.