Tree Cover Estimation in Global Drylands from Space Using Deep Learning
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Guirado Hernández, Emilio; Alcaraz Segura, Domingo; Cabello Piñar, Francisco Javier; Puertas Ruíz, Sergio; Herrera, Francisco; [et al.]Fecha
2020-01-21Resumen
Accurate tree cover mapping is of paramount importance in many fields, from biodiversity conservation to carbon stock estimation, ecohydrology, erosion control, or Earth system modelling. Despite this importance, there is still uncertainty about global forest cover, particularly in drylands. Recently, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) conducted a costly global assessment of dryland forest cover through the visual interpretation of orthoimages using the Collect Earth software, involving hundreds of operators from around the world. Our study proposes a new automatic method for estimating tree cover using artificial intelligence and free orthoimages. Our results show that our tree cover classification model, based on convolutional neural networks (CNN), is 23% more accurate than the manual visual interpretation used by FAO, reaching up to 79% overall accuracy. The smallest differences between the two methods occurred in the driest regions, but disagreement ...
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convolutional neural networks
data augmentation
deep learning
dry forest
forest mapping
large-scale datasets
transfer learning