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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2020, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (11): 97-107.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.20201110

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Subtropical Forest Tree Species Classification Based on 3D-CNN for Airborne Hyperspectral Data

Lin Zhao,Xiaoli Zhang*,Yanshuang Wu,Bin Zhang   

  1. Key Laboratory for Silviculture and Conservation of Ministry of Education Precision Forestry Key Laboratory of Beijing, Beijing Forestry University Beijing 100083
  • Received:2019-02-11 Online:2020-11-25 Published:2020-12-30
  • Contact: Xiaoli Zhang

Abstract:

Objective: This study was implemented to explore the potential of deep convolutional neural networks in airborne hyperspectral data classification,so as to improve the classification accuracy of forest tree species in subtropical regions. Method: The aeronautical hyperspectral data of Nanning Gaofeng forest farm in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region obtained by the LiCHy system of Chinese Academy of Forestry was used. The CNN model used in this paper aimed to deal with hyperspectral image analysis problems in an end-to-end manner. It could take raw data as input,without dimension reduction or feature screening,eliminating the need for traditional classification methods to manually feature selection in different degrees. The 3D convolutional layers in the network could extract spectral features and spatial features simultaneously,learn the local signal changes in the spatial and spectral dimensions of the feature cube,and classify them with important recognition features to improve the discriminating ability of hyperspectral images. For the problem of high dimensionality of airborne hyperspectral data and relatively few training samples,the CNN model was optimized to avoid over-fitting. Result: Compared with the traditional feature selection and object-oriented segmentation method,CNN could obtain a higher classification accuracy,the overall accuracy reached 98.38%,Kappa coefficient was 0.98. Compared with support vector machine combined with random forest (RF) feature selection classification,the overall accuracy was improved by 8.82%,and the Kappa coefficient was increased by 0.11. In the case of small sample training (75% reduction in training samples size),the overall accuracy still reached 95.89%,and the Kappa coefficient was 0.94. Conclusion: The three-dimensional convolutional neural network could fully utilize the rich information in the image processing of the feature extraction and classification of airborne hyperspectral imagery,which could achieve high-precision discrimination of subtropical forest tree species; in addition,reasonable network structure and training strategy (adding the Dropout layer) could greatly improve the network training speed and still get good results in small sample training,and could achieve efficient and accurate classification of forest species.

Key words: hyperspectral remote sensing, convolutional neural network, tree species classification, small sample

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