用积温替代日历时间,提升作物分类跨年跨区泛化能力。
$T^{3}S$: Think in Thermal Time for Generalizable Crop Mapping from Satellite Image Time Series
- 以积温重排遥感时序数据,对齐不同年份生长阶段
- 在瑞士和丹麦法国数据集上提升分类准确率与不确定性校准
- 无需修改模型结构,适合资源受限的农业监测场景
基于光学遥感时序数据的作物类型分类在跨年度泛化方面仍存局限,尤其当作物物候受年际天气变化影响时。这限制了其在无当前年标签的实际监测中的应用。此外,不确定性量化常被忽视,降低实际可靠性。受生态生理学启发,本文提出热时序采样($T^3S$),一种简单、模型无关的方法,将日历时间替换为热时。通过累积积温重新索引卫星观测,$T^3S$ 对齐多年间生物学上等效的生长阶段,减少时间冗余,聚焦最具生物信息量的时期。我们在(i)新发布的瑞士国家尺度多历年哨兵-2数据集SwissCrop(含配对温度数据)及(ii)横跨丹麦与法国的跨区域TimeMatch基准上评估$T^3S$。结果表明,在三种不同架构的主干网络上,$T^3S$ 均显著优于多个先进基线方法,包括热位置编码,在跨年、跨区域分类任务中表现优异,且在标签稀缺、早期季节预测和不确定性校准方面优势明显,同时无需任何架构修改。代码与数据集已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Crop type classification from optical satellite time series remains limited in its ability to generalize across growing seasons, particularly when crop phenology shifts due to inter-annual weather variability. This hampers deployment in operational settings where current-year labels are unavailable. In addition, uncertainty quantification is often overlooked, reducing the reliability of such approaches for practical crop monitoring. Inspired by ecophysiological principles, we introduce Thermal Time-based Temporal Sampling ($T^3S$), a simple, model-agnostic method that replaces calendar time with thermal time. By re-indexing satellite observations by cumulative growing degree days, $T^3S$ aligns phenologically equivalent growth stages across years, reducing temporal redundancy while concentrating on the most biologically informative periods. We evaluate $T^3S$ across three architecturally distinct backbones on (i) SwissCrop, a new country-scale, multi-year Sentinel-2 dataset with paired temperature data that we publicly release, and (ii) the cross-region TimeMatch benchmark spanning Denmark and France. Across these settings, $T^3S$ consistently improves cross-year and cross-region crop classification over several state-of-the-art baselines, including thermal positional encoding, with particularly strong gains in uncertainty calibration, robustness under label scarcity, and early-season prediction, while requiring no architectural modification. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/moturkoglu/T3S.
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