Artificial Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computation in Remote Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) offer great potential to get insight and to uncover the underlying relationships and structures existing in datasets. ANNs imitate the physical process of learning in the human brain in a simple way. A model is formed by artificial neurons on several layers that emulate biological neurons and the synaptic connections. ANNs are effective in identifying patterns and other underlying data structures in multidimensional data, particularly for remotely sensed data. They are also good at dealing with a large set of variables possessing non-linearity, categorical data, and complex structures. Once a neural net is trained, the network is capable of processing new and unseen datasets. At this point, it should be stated that the robustness of the trained neural nets lies in the optimization of the chosen learning algorithm, the parameters controlling the training phase, and, of course, the quality of the training data, which can be considers as their representativeness for the problem under consideration. Over the past decade, there have been considerable increases in both the quantity of remotely sensed data, and the use of neural networks for remote sensing research problems. Initially called black-box methods, neural nets are now more popular, with new network types and algorithms, and they are more interpretable. Up until now, ANNs have been applied to many tasks, not only for statistical regressions or image classification, but also for image segmentation, feature extraction, data fusion, or dimensionality reduction. Although significant progress has been made in the analysis of remotely sensed imagery using neural nets, a number of issues remain to be resolved. This Special Issue aims to showcase the variety and relevance of the recent developments in the theory and application of neural networks and evolutionary computation in remote sensing. Thus, the latest and most advanced ideas and findings related to the application of neural nets will be shared with the remote sensing community. Authors are encouraged to submit original papers of both a theoretical- and application-based nature.

Prof. Dr. Taskin Kavzoglu
Guest Editor

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