Title
Spatial-temporal conditional random field based model for crop recognition in tropical regions
Date Issued
01 December 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Feitosa R.Q.
Rottensteiner F.
Sanches I.D.
Heipke C.
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
This work presents a spatio-temporal Conditional Random Field (CRF) based model for crop recognition from multi-temporal remote sensing image sequences. The association potential at each image site is based on the class posterior probabilities computed by a Random Forest (RF) classifier given the features at the corresponding site. A contrast-sensitive Potts model is used as a label smoothing method in the spatial domain, whereas the interactions in the temporal domain are modeled based on expert knowledge about the possible transitions between adjacent epochs. The CRF based model was tested for crop mapping in two subtropical areas based on a sequences of 9 Landsat and 14 Sentinel-1 images from Ipuã, São Paulo and Campo Verde, Mato Grosso, respectively, two municipalities in Brazil. The experiments showed significant improvements of the accumulated F1 score per class against a mono-temporal CRF approach of up to 50% and 75% for a total of 8 and 11 classes using Optical and SAR images respectively.
Start page
3007
End page
3010
Volume
2017-July
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica Agricultura
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85041841951
Resource of which it is part
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
ISBN of the container
978-150904951-6
Conference
37th Annual IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2017
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