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Countrywide Mapping of Plant Ecological Communities with 101 Legends including Land Cover Types for the First Time at 10 m Resolution through Convolutional Learning of Satellite Images. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/app12147125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
This paper presents next-generation mapping of plant ecological communities including land cover and agricultural types at 10 m spatial resolution countrywide. This research introduces modelling and mapping of land cover and ecological communities separately in small regions-of-interest (prefecture level), and later integrating the outputs into a large scale (country level) for dealing with regional distribution characteristics of plant ecological communities effectively. The Sentinel-2 satellite images were processed for cloud masking and half-monthly median composite images consisting of ten multi-spectral bands and seven spectral indexes were generated. The reliable ground truth data were prepared from extant multi-source survey databases through the procedure of stratified sampling, cross-checking, and noisy-labels pruning. Deep convolutional learning of the time-series of the satellite data was employed for prefecture-wise classification and mapping of 29–62 classes. The classification accuracy computed with the 10-fold cross-validation method varied from 71.1–87.5% in terms of F1-score and 70.9–87.4% in terms of Kappa coefficient across 48 prefectural regions. This research produced seamless maps of 101 ecological communities including land cover and agricultural types for the first time at a country scale with an average accuracy of 80.5% F1-score.
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