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23 May 2019

As a fundamental and important task in remote sensing, remote sensing image scene understanding (RSISU) has attracted tremendous research interest in recent years. RSISU includes the following sub-tasks: remote sensing image scene classification, rem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Deep Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,722 Views
22 Pages

12 November 2021

The complexity of scene images makes the research on remote-sensing image scene classification challenging. With the wide application of deep learning in recent years, many remote-sensing scene classification methods using a convolutional neural netw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Citations
9,421 Views
25 Pages

An Efficient and Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network for Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification

  • Donghang Yu,
  • Qing Xu,
  • Haitao Guo,
  • Chuan Zhao,
  • Yuzhun Lin and
  • Daoji Li

2 April 2020

Classifying remote sensing images is vital for interpreting image content. Presently, remote sensing image scene classification methods using convolutional neural networks have drawbacks, including excessive parameters and heavy calculation costs. Mo...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,089 Views
19 Pages

A Novel Deep Nearest Neighbor Neural Network for Few-Shot Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification

  • Yanqiao Chen,
  • Yangyang Li,
  • Heting Mao,
  • Xinghua Chai and
  • Licheng Jiao

22 January 2023

Remote sensing image scene classification has become more and more popular in recent years. As we all know, it is very difficult and time-consuming to obtain a large number of manually labeled remote sensing images. Therefore, few-shot scene classifi...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,500 Views
16 Pages

17 October 2022

For remote sensing image scene classification tasks, the classification accuracy of the small-scale deep neural network tends to be low and fails to achieve accuracy in real-world application scenarios. However, although large deep neural networks ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for multi-source Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,308 Views
22 Pages

6 August 2021

Remote sensing image scene classification (RSISC) has broad application prospects, but related challenges still exist and urgently need to be addressed. One of the most important challenges is how to learn a strong discriminative scene representation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Computer Vision in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,796 Views
19 Pages

3 November 2022

Remote sensing image scene classification has drawn extensive attention for its wide application in various scenarios. Scene classification in many practical cases faces the challenge of few-shot conditions. The major difficulty of few-shot remote se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,372 Views
21 Pages

Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification with Noisy Label Distillation

  • Rui Zhang,
  • Zhenghao Chen,
  • Sanxing Zhang,
  • Fei Song,
  • Gang Zhang,
  • Quancheng Zhou and
  • Tao Lei

24 July 2020

The widespread applications of remote sensing image scene classification-based Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are severely affected by the lack of large-scale datasets with clean annotations. Data crawled from the Internet or other sources allo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical and Machine Learning Models for Remote Sensing Data Mining - Recent Advancements)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,592 Views
25 Pages

30 October 2021

For remote sensing scene image classification, many convolution neural networks improve the classification accuracy at the cost of the time and space complexity of the models. This leads to a slow running speed for the model and cannot realize a trad...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,585 Views
21 Pages

Semi-Supervised DEGAN for Optical High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification

  • Jia Li,
  • Yujia Liao,
  • Junjie Zhang,
  • Dan Zeng and
  • Xiaoliang Qian

5 September 2022

Semi-supervised methods have made remarkable achievements via utilizing unlabeled samples for optical high-resolution remote sensing scene classification. However, the labeled data cannot be effectively combined with unlabeled data in the existing se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
7,024 Views
19 Pages

10 June 2020

The scene classification of a remote sensing image has been widely used in various fields as an important task of understanding the content of a remote sensing image. Specially, a high-resolution remote sensing scene contains rich information and com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
5,572 Views
28 Pages

24 January 2022

In recent years, convolution neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in the field of remote sensing scene image classification. However, CNN models with good classification performance tend to have high complexity, and CNN models with low comple...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Object-Level Remote Sensing Image Information Extraction and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,643 Views
23 Pages

18 November 2022

In recent years, supervised learning, represented by deep learning, has shown good performance in remote sensing image scene classification with its powerful feature learning ability. However, this method requires large-scale and high-quality handcra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Image Processing with Transformers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,612 Views
22 Pages

29 December 2021

Due to the superiority of convolutional neural networks, many deep learning methods have been used in image classification. The enormous difference between natural images and remote sensing images makes it difficult to directly utilize or modify exis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for Remote Sensing Imagery Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,660 Views
16 Pages

8 December 2021

Through the continued development of technology, applying deep learning to remote sensing scene classification tasks is quite mature. The keys to effective deep learning model training are model architecture, training strategies, and image quality. F...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Deep Learning III)
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  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,610 Views
22 Pages

10 December 2020

In recent years, deep neural network (DNN) based scene classification methods have achieved promising performance. However, the data-driven training strategy requires a large number of labeled samples, making the DNN-based methods unable to solve the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,414 Views
20 Pages

Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN)-based image scene classification models play an important role in a wide variety of remote sensing applications and achieve great success. However, the large-scale remote sensing images and the intensive compu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hardware Architectures for Real Time Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,923 Views
26 Pages

5 September 2022

The development of convolution neural networks (CNNs) has become a significant means to solve the problem of remote sensing scene image classification. However, well-performing CNNs generally have high complexity and are prone to overfitting. To hand...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,093 Views
21 Pages

30 June 2021

In recent years, many convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods have been proposed to address the scene classification tasks of remote sensing images. Since the number of training samples in RS datasets is generally small, data augmentation is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,223 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Discriminative Enhancement Method for Few-Shot Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification

  • Yanqiao Chen,
  • Yangyang Li,
  • Heting Mao,
  • Guangyuan Liu,
  • Xinghua Chai and
  • Licheng Jiao

18 September 2023

Remote sensing image scene classification (RSISC) has garnered significant attention in recent years. Numerous methods have been put forward in an attempt to tackle this issue, particularly leveraging deep learning methods that have shown promising p...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,682 Views
15 Pages

27 March 2025

Recently, remote sensing image scene classification (RSISC) has gained considerable interest from the research community. Numerous approaches have been developed to tackling this issue, with deep learning techniques standing out due to their great pe...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
6,859 Views
24 Pages

17 May 2021

In recent years, with the rapid development of computer vision, increasing attention has been paid to remote sensing image scene classification. To improve the classification performance, many studies have increased the depth of convolutional neural...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature-Based Methods for Remote Sensing Image Classification)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,684 Views
19 Pages

9 October 2021

The classification of aerial scenes has been extensively studied as the basic work of remote sensing image processing and interpretation. However, the performance of remote sensing image scene classification based on deep neural networks is limited b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Deep Learning Based 3D Scene Understanding from LiDAR)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,071 Views
22 Pages

ATMformer: An Adaptive Token Merging Vision Transformer for Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification

  • Yi Niu,
  • Zhuochen Song,
  • Qingyu Luo,
  • Guochao Chen,
  • Mingming Ma and
  • Fu Li

15 February 2025

In remote sensing image scene classification (RSISC) tasks, downsampling is crucial for reducing computational complexity and cache demands, enhancing the model’s generalization capability of deep neural networks. Traditional methods, such as r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
7,250 Views
20 Pages

13 December 2019

Remote sensing image scene classification (RSISC) is an active task in the remote sensing community and has attracted great attention due to its wide applications. Recently, the deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs)-based methods have witnessed a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature-Based Methods for Remote Sensing Image Classification)
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  • Open Access
167 Citations
10,698 Views
17 Pages

8 June 2016

An effective remote sensing image scene classification approach using patch-based multi-scale completed local binary pattern (MS-CLBP) features and a Fisher vector (FV) is proposed. The approach extracts a set of local patch descriptors by partitioni...

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  • Open Access
97 Citations
11,665 Views
17 Pages

7 December 2020

As one of the fundamental tasks in remote sensing (RS) image understanding, multi-label remote sensing image scene classification (MLRSSC) is attracting increasing research interest. Human beings can easily perform MLRSSC by examining the visual elem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning in Remote Sensing: Sample Datasets, Algorithms and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,852 Views
18 Pages

11 September 2022

Remote sensing image scene classification takes image blocks as classification units and predicts their semantic descriptors. Because it is difficult to obtain enough labeled samples for all classes of remote sensing image scenes, zero-shot classific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,351 Views
26 Pages

HLAE-Net: A Hierarchical Lightweight Attention-Enhanced Strategy for Remote Sensing Scene Image Classification

  • Mingyuan Yang,
  • Cuiping Shi,
  • Kangning Tan,
  • Haocheng Wu,
  • Shenghan Wang and
  • Liguo Wang

24 September 2025

Remote sensing scene image classification has extensive application scenarios in fields such as land use monitoring and environmental assessment. However, traditional methodologies based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) face considerable chall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technology for Remote Sensing Image Analysis and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,267 Views
25 Pages

27 September 2022

The main challenges of remote sensing image scene classification are extracting discriminative features and making full use of the training data. The current mainstream deep learning methods usually only use the hard labels of the samples, ignoring t...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,374 Views
20 Pages

Triplet-Metric-Guided Multi-Scale Attention for Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification with a Convolutional Neural Network

  • Hong Wang,
  • Kun Gao,
  • Lei Min,
  • Yuxuan Mao,
  • Xiaodian Zhang,
  • Junwei Wang,
  • Zibo Hu and
  • Yutong Liu

10 June 2022

Remote sensing image scene classification (RSISC) plays a vital role in remote sensing applications. Recent methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have driven the development of RSISC. However, these approaches are not adequate conside...

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  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,371 Views
23 Pages

12 October 2022

The spatial distribution of remote-sensing scene images is highly complex in character, so how to extract local key semantic information and discriminative features is the key to making it possible to classify accurately. However, most of the existin...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
543 Views
20 Pages

21 July 2026

With the rapid development of remote sensing technology, high-resolution satellite imagery has been increasingly applied to land resource monitoring, urban planning, and environmental assessment. Automatically assigning semantic labels to remote sens...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,328 Views
26 Pages

16 May 2019

One of the challenges in the field of remote sensing is how to automatically identify and classify high-resolution remote sensing images. A number of approaches have been proposed. Among them, the methods based on low-level visual features and middle...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,917 Views
19 Pages

4 February 2023

Deep learning approaches are gaining popularity in image feature analysis and in attaining state-of-the-art performances in scene classification of remote sensing imagery. This article presents a comprehensive review of the developments of various co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
7,776 Views
18 Pages

CLRS: Continual Learning Benchmark for Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification

  • Haifeng Li,
  • Hao Jiang,
  • Xin Gu,
  • Jian Peng,
  • Wenbo Li,
  • Liang Hong and
  • Chao Tao

24 February 2020

Remote sensing image scene classification has a high application value in the agricultural, military, as well as other fields. A large amount of remote sensing data is obtained every day. After learning the new batch data, scene classification algori...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
450 Citations
18,372 Views
22 Pages

28 February 2019

Remote sensing image scene classification is one of the most challenging problems in understanding high-resolution remote sensing images. Deep learning techniques, especially the convolutional neural network (CNN), have improved the performance of re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Very High Resolution (VHR) Satellite Imagery: Processing and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,542 Views
19 Pages

12 July 2021

Few-shot classification of remote sensing images has attracted attention due to its important applications in various fields. The major challenge in few-shot remote sensing image scene classification is that limited labeled samples can be utilized fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
6,571 Views
21 Pages

Training Convolutional Neural Networks with Multi-Size Images and Triplet Loss for Remote Sensing Scene Classification

  • Jianming Zhang,
  • Chaoquan Lu,
  • Jin Wang,
  • Xiao-Guang Yue,
  • Se-Jung Lim,
  • Zafer Al-Makhadmeh and
  • Amr Tolba

21 February 2020

Many remote sensing scene classification algorithms improve their classification accuracy by additional modules, which increases the parameters and computing overhead of the model at the inference stage. In this paper, we explore how to improve the c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors, Big Data Analytics and Modeling for Infrastructure Monitoring and Maintenance)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,478 Views
22 Pages

21 November 2024

Few-shot learning (FSL) is a learning paradigm which aims to address the issue of machine/deep learning techniques which traditionally need huge amounts of labelled data to work out. The remote sensing (RS) community has explored this paradigm with n...

(This article belongs to the Topic Computational Intelligence in Remote Sensing: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,696 Views
14 Pages

3 October 2021

High-resolution remote sensing image scene classification is a challenging visual task due to the large intravariance and small intervariance between the categories. To accurately recognize the scene categories, it is essential to learn discriminativ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing and Geoscience Information Systems in Applied Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,451 Views
25 Pages

14 August 2022

Remote sensing image scene classification (RSISC), which aims to classify scene categories for remote sensing imagery, has broad applications in various fields. Recent deep learning (DL) successes have led to a new wave of RSISC applications; however...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Remote Sensing Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,568 Views
23 Pages

5 February 2021

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have shown significant improvements in remote sensing image scene classification for powerful feature representations. However, because of the high variance and volume limitations of the available remote sen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Towards Practical Application of Artificial Intelligence in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,223 Views
15 Pages

1 February 2023

Scene classification is a critical technology to solve the challenges of image search and image recognition. It has become an indispensable and challenging research topic in the field of remote sensing. At present, most scene classifications are solv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Meets Remote Sensing for Earth Observation and Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
5,035 Views
18 Pages

4 March 2019

At present, nonparametric subspace classifiers, such as collaborative representation-based classification (CRC) and sparse representation-based classification (SRC), are widely used in many pattern-classification and -recognition tasks. Meanwhile, th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Representation Learning for Remote Sensing Analytics (RLRSA))
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,221 Views
24 Pages

24 April 2024

Although deep neural networks have made significant progress in tasks related to remote sensing image scene classification, most of these tasks assume that the training and test data are independently and identically distributed. However, when remote...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Artificial Intelligence for Remote Sensing: Methodology and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,588 Views
25 Pages

4 December 2023

In recent years, with the rapid development of deep learning technology, great progress has been made in remote sensing scene image classification. Compared with natural images, remote sensing scene images are usually more complex, with high inter-cl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge-Driven and/or Data-Driven Methods for Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
116 Citations
21,416 Views
37 Pages

Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification: A Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Aakash Thapa,
  • Teerayut Horanont,
  • Bipul Neupane and
  • Jagannath Aryal

2 October 2023

Remote sensing image scene classification with deep learning (DL) is a rapidly growing field that has gained significant attention in the past few years. While previous review papers in this domain have been confined to 2020, an up-to-date review to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,708 Views
21 Pages

Adversarial Defense Method Based on Latent Representation Guidance for Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification

  • Qingan Da,
  • Guoyin Zhang,
  • Wenshan Wang,
  • Yingnan Zhao,
  • Dan Lu,
  • Sizhao Li and
  • Dapeng Lang

7 September 2023

Deep neural networks have made great achievements in remote sensing image analyses; however, previous studies have shown that deep neural networks exhibit incredible vulnerability to adversarial examples, which raises concerns about regional safety a...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,050 Views
26 Pages

2 July 2022

The large intra-class difference and inter-class similarity of scene images bring great challenges to the research of remote-sensing scene image classification. In recent years, many remote-sensing scene classification methods based on convolutional...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Neural Networks for Remote Sensing Scene Classification)

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