Extraction of Winter-Wheat Planting Areas Using a Combination of U-Net and CBAM
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Study Area and Data Sources
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Growth Cycles of Winter Wheat in the Study Area
2.3. Remote Sensing Imagery
2.3.1. Sentinel-2 Data
2.3.2. GF-6 Data
3. Methodology
3.1. Convolutional Block Attention Module
3.2. Structure of the U-Net-CBAM
4. Training of U-Net-CBAM and Evaluation Metrics
4.1. Image Label Datasets
4.2. Model Training
- (1)
- Determine the hyperparameters in the training process and initialize the parameters of the U-Net-CBAM model;
- (2)
- Input the images and labels from the training set in the GF-6 image dataset and the Sentinel-2 image dataset into the U-Net-CBAM model, respectively;
- (3)
- Perform forward propagation on the current training data using the U-Net-CBAM model;
- (4)
- Calculate the loss and back-propagate to the U-Net-CBAM model;
- (5)
- Use the Adam optimizer to update the parameters of the U-Net-CBAM model based on the loss values, and repeat steps 2–4 until the loss is lower than a predetermined threshold.
4.3. Evaluation Metrics
4.4. Comparison Models
5. Results and Discussion
5.1. Identification of Winter Wheat
5.2. Comparison of Identified Results
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Informed Consent Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Growth Cycle | Time | Photo | Growth Cycle | Time | Photo |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Seed sowing | Early October | Elongation | Mid- to late April of the following year | ||
Seedling emergence | Mid- to late October | Heading | Early May of the following year | ||
Tillering | November | Milk-ripening | Mid-May to early June of the following year | ||
Wintering | January to early March of the following year | Maturing | Mid- to late June of the following year | ||
Reviving | Mid-March to early April of the following year |
Satellite Name | Band Number | Band Name | Spectral Range (μm) | Spatial Resolution (m) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sentinel-2A | B1 | Coastal Aerosol | 0.433–0.533 | 60 |
B2 | Blue | 0.458–0.523 | 10 | |
B3 | Green | 0.543–0.578 | 10 | |
B4 | Red | 0.65–0.68 | 10 | |
B5 | Vegetation Red Edge | 0.698–0.713 | 20 | |
B6 | Vegetation Red Edge | 0.733–0.748 | 20 | |
B7 | Vegetation Red Edge | 0.773–0.793 | 20 | |
B8 | NIR | 0.785–0.9 | 10 | |
B8A | Narrow NIR | 0.855–0.875 | 20 | |
B9 | Water Vapor | 0.935–0.955 | 60 | |
B10 | SWIR-Cirrus | 1.36–1.39 | 60 | |
B11 | SWIR | 1.565–1.655 | 20 | |
B12 | SWIR | 2.1–2.28 | 20 | |
GF-6 | P | Panchromatic | 0.45–0.90 | 2 |
B1 | Blue | 0.45–0.52 | 8 | |
B2 | Green | 0.52–0.60 | 8 | |
B3 | Red | 0.63–0.69 | 8 | |
B4 | NIR | 0.76–0.90 | 8 |
Hyperparameter | Value |
---|---|
Batch size | 4 |
Learning rate | 0.0001 |
Beta1 for Adam | 0.5 |
Beta2 for Adam | 0.999 |
Epochs | 100 |
Datasets | Approach | Predicted | Winter Wheat | Nonwinter Wheat |
---|---|---|---|---|
GF-6 dataset | SegNet | Winter wheat | 0.772 | 0.021 |
Nonwinter wheat | 0.103 | 0.104 | ||
DeepLabV3+ | Winter wheat | 0.759 | 0.033 | |
Nonwinter wheat | 0.075 | 0.133 | ||
U-Net | Winter wheat | 0.766 | 0.025 | |
Nonwinter wheat | 0.078 | 0.131 | ||
U-Net-CBAM | Winter wheat | 0.761 | 0.033 | |
Nonwinter wheat | 0.055 | 0.151 | ||
Sentinel-2 dataset | SegNet | Winter wheat | 0.764 | 0.029 |
Nonwinter wheat | 0.062 | 0.145 | ||
DeepLabV3+ | Winter wheat | 0.766 | 0.026 | |
Nonwinter wheat | 0.046 | 0.162 | ||
U-Net | Winter wheat | 0.765 | 0.029 | |
Nonwinter wheat | 0.048 | 0.158 | ||
U-Net-CBAM | Winter wheat | 0.762 | 0.031 | |
Nonwinter wheat | 0.035 | 0.172 |
Datasets | Approach | Precision | MIoU | Recall | OA | F1 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GF-6 dataset | SegNet | 0.740 | 0.667 | 0.873 | 0.883 | 0.782 |
DeepLabV3+ | 0.806 | 0.725 | 0.865 | 0.899 | 0.831 | |
U-Net | 0.807 | 0.735 | 0.884 | 0.905 | 0.837 | |
U-Net-CBAM | 0.849 | 0.771 | 0.882 | 0.916 | 0.864 | |
Sentinel-2 dataset | SegNet | 0.838 | 0.766 | 0.889 | 0.915 | 0.860 |
DeepLabV3+ | 0.881 | 0.815 | 0.910 | 0.934 | 0.894 | |
U-Net | 0.871 | 0.802 | 0.903 | 0.929 | 0.886 | |
U-Net-CBAM | 0.900 | 0.831 | 0.907 | 0.939 | 0.905 |
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Zhao, J.; Wang, J.; Qian, H.; Zhan, Y.; Lei, Y. Extraction of Winter-Wheat Planting Areas Using a Combination of U-Net and CBAM. Agronomy 2022, 12, 2965. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12122965
Zhao J, Wang J, Qian H, Zhan Y, Lei Y. Extraction of Winter-Wheat Planting Areas Using a Combination of U-Net and CBAM. Agronomy. 2022; 12(12):2965. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12122965
Chicago/Turabian StyleZhao, Jinling, Juan Wang, Haiming Qian, Yuanyuan Zhan, and Yu Lei. 2022. "Extraction of Winter-Wheat Planting Areas Using a Combination of U-Net and CBAM" Agronomy 12, no. 12: 2965. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12122965