Remote Sensing Technology and Application, Volume. 39, Issue 1, 24(2024)

Forest Change Detection based on Siamese Neural Network with GF-2 Image: A Case of Jiande Forest Farm, Zhejiang

Qiuyi AI1、*, Huaguo HUANG1, Ying GUO2, Bingjie LIU1, Shuxin CHEN2, and Xin TIAN2
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  • 1Forest Resources and Environmental Management National Forest and Grass Bureau Key Laboratory,Beijing Forestry University,Beijing 100083,China
  • 2Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques,Chinese Academy of Forestry,Beijing 100091,China
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    Forest is a valuable non-renewable resource, but the ecological environment of forest is seriously threatened by many natural or man-made factors such as fire, flood, and deforestation interference. Accurate grasp of forest resource changes can provide effective information for forest resource management and protection. In the task of forest change detection, traditional machine learning change detection methods have difficulty in capturing deep semantic information due to large differences in forest categories and tree species, and suffer from poor adaptability of extracted features, weak recognition ability, and pseudo-change due to seasonal phases. We propose to build a deep learning model with Siamese neural networks for forest change detection experiments. Three different feature extraction methods, ResNet50 (Residual neural network), CBAM (Convolutional Block Attention Module) and SE (Squeeze and Excitation) with different lightweight attention mechanisms are used as backbone feature extraction modules, respectively. All three backbone feature extraction networks are trained based on pre-trained weights, which improve change detection by fusing the extracted multi-scale feature maps so that the coarse and fine details of information in different feature maps complement each other. It also has the advantage of sharing weights with the same number of parameters. Taking Jiande Forest Farm in Zhejiang province as the experimental area, two phases of GF-2 images in 2015 and 2020 are acquired to construct a forest change detection dataset with a resolution of 1m. The results of Siamese neural network change detection are compared with the true change labels (Ground truth), where the backbone feature extraction network SE-ResNet50 has the best combined results with Precision (0.91), Recall (0.78) and F1-score (0.83), which is better than mainstream change detection models FC-Siam-conc, FC-Siam-diff. It is proved that Siamese neural networks can accurately capture forest changes in the task of forest lad change detection from high-resolution remote sensing images, and provide a new forest change detection method for forest resource management departments.

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    Qiuyi AI, Huaguo HUANG, Ying GUO, Bingjie LIU, Shuxin CHEN, Xin TIAN. Forest Change Detection based on Siamese Neural Network with GF-2 Image: A Case of Jiande Forest Farm, Zhejiang[J]. Remote Sensing Technology and Application, 2024, 39(1): 24

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Oct. 28, 2022

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Jul. 22, 2024

    The Author Email: AI Qiuyi (867492742@qq.com)

    DOI:10.11873/j.issn.1004-0323.2024.1.0024

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