Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 60, Issue 14, 1428004(2023)

Cloud Detection in Landsat8 OLI Remote Sensing Image with Dual Attention Mechanism

Hao Wan1, Lei Lei1、*, Rui Li2, Wei Chen3, and Yiqing Shi3
Author Affiliations
  • 1Electric Power Research Institute of State Grid Shaanxi Electric Power Company, Xi'an 710100, Shaanxi, China
  • 2State Grid Co., Ltd., Beijing 100031, China
  • 3State Grid Shaanxi Electric Power Co., Ltd., Xi'an 710048, Shaanxi, China
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    Structure of ResNet model
    Improved densely connected modules
    Conversion module
    Bottleneck structure. (a) Traditional bottleneck structure; (b) improved bottleneck structure
    Channel attention module
    Location attention module
    NLNet module structure
    Global context modeling module
    Atrous convolution module
    Densely connected network incorporating attention mechanism
    Ratio of image blocks covered by thick and thin clouds in different datasets
    Detection results of thin and thick clouds over land and coastal areas. (a) Original composite image (land); (b) cloud detection results of proposed algorithm (land); (c) original composite image (ocean); (d) cloud detection results of proposed algorithm (ocean)
    Detection results of different cloud detection methods in scenario 1. (a) Original composite image; (b) real image of the ground; (c) F-CNN algorithm; (d) proposed algorithm+no multi-scale; (e) RF algorithm; (f) SVM algorithm; (g) proposed algorithm; (h) Fmask algorithm
    Detection results of different cloud detection methods in scenario 2. (a) Original composite image; (b) real image of the ground; (c) F-CNN algorithm; (d) proposed algorithm+no multi-scale; (e) RF algorithm; (f) SVM algorithm; (g) proposed algorithm; (h) Fmask algorithm
    Detection results of different cloud detection methods in scenario 3. (a) Original composite image; (b) real image of the ground; (c) F-CNN algorithm; (d) proposed algorithm+no multi-scale; (e) RF algorithm; (f) SVM algorithm; (g) proposed algorithm; (h) Fmask algorithm
    Test datasets cloud detection accuracy distribution map. (a) Comparison with F-CNN model; (b) comparison with self-contrast model; (c) comparison with RF model; (d) comparison with SVM model
    RR distribution of cloud test datasets
    ER distribution of cloud test datasets
    FAR distribution of cloud test dataset
    RER distribution of cloud test datasets
    • Table 1. Image distribution of cloud coverage in train and test datasets

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      Table 1. Image distribution of cloud coverage in train and test datasets

      Cloud cover rate /%Train setTrain set ratio /%Test setTest set ratio /%
      029423.831138.6
      (0,10]30024.217722.0
      (10,20]16413.3809.9
      (20,30]15512.6658.0
      (30,40]1139.1607.5
      (40,100]21017.011314.0
    • Table 2. Detection performance of different methods for thick and thin clouds

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      Table 2. Detection performance of different methods for thick and thin clouds

      MethodPrecision_cRecall_cF_Score_cPrecision_tRecall_tF_Score_tTime /s
      SVM0.86480.79840.83030.74090.58790.65567.8
      RF0.86280.81940.84060.73960.59230.657810.6
      F-CNN0.87010.76200.81250.70110.59430.643313.7
      self-contrast0.86660.64610.74030.58990.47840.528316.8
      Proposed method0.90740.89460.89200.78130.76930.77539.2
    • Table 3. Full cloud detection performance of different methods

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      Table 3. Full cloud detection performance of different methods

      MethodRRERFARRER
      SVM0.83400.05490.051715.19
      RF0.84400.06010.027514.05
      FCNN0.82360.06370.037112.93
      self-contrast0.73610.08870.02908.30
      Fmask0.99230.10490.63419.46
      Proposed method0.93400.03850.069324.22
    • Table 4. Ablation experiment results

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      Table 4. Ablation experiment results

      TypeRRERTime /s
      A0.7930.069112.7
      B0.8020.070913.3
      C0.8900.077711.2
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    Hao Wan, Lei Lei, Rui Li, Wei Chen, Yiqing Shi. Cloud Detection in Landsat8 OLI Remote Sensing Image with Dual Attention Mechanism[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2023, 60(14): 1428004

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    Paper Information

    Category: Remote Sensing and Sensors

    Received: Mar. 21, 2022

    Accepted: Aug. 4, 2022

    Published Online: Jul. 17, 2023

    The Author Email: Lei Lei (7468356@qq.com)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP221068

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