用深度嵌入提升荷兰森林普查树种分类精度,少样本下效果显著。
Assessing the Effectiveness of Deep Embeddings for Tree Species Classification in the Dutch Forest Inventory
- 用预训练模型提取遥感时序嵌入,替代传统手工特征。
- 分类准确率提升7-9个百分点,宏平均F1最高增17点。
- 适合数据稀缺的森林普查场景,可大规模推广。
国家森林清查(NFI)是森林信息的主要来源,但维护需林业专家实地耗时调查树种。深度预训练遥感模型的嵌入为更频繁、更大范围更新清查提供了新可能。本文系统评估了深度嵌入在荷兰树种分类中的表现,使用三个难度不同的树种数据集,对比Presto、Alpha Earth和TESSERA三种嵌入模型。研究比较了Alpha Earth和TESSERA的公开嵌入与基于预训练Presto模型动态计算的嵌入,该模型融合了哨兵1号、哨兵2号及气象数据,以及来自Google Earth Engine的高程数据。结果表明,公开可用的遥感时序深度嵌入优于当前最优的手工特征,在参考样地级别使总体准确率提升约7至9个百分点,宏平均F1最高提升17个百分点。这说明传统手工特征过于简单,而深度嵌入在数据有限的场景中具有巨大潜力。基于预计算嵌入构建的国家级地图与样地级结果一致,且经独立验证与现有NFI数据吻合。通过利用开放卫星数据与预训练模型嵌入,该方法持续优于传统方法,可有效补充现有森林清查流程。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
National Forest Inventory (NFI) serves as the primary source of forest information, however, maintaining these inventories requires labor-intensive on-site campaigns by forestry experts to identify and document tree species. Embeddings from deep pre-trained remote sensing models offer new opportunities to update NFIs more frequently and at larger scales. This work systematically investigates how deep embeddings improve tree species classification accuracy in the Netherlands with few annotated data. We evaluate this question on three embedding models: Presto, Alpha Earth, and TESSERA, using three tree species datasets of varying difficulty. Data-wise, we compare the available embeddings from Alpha Earth and TESSERA with dynamically calculated embeddings from a pre-trained Presto model, for which we extracted time series from Sentinel-1 , Sentinel-2, and weather data, along with elevation data downloaded from Google Earth Engine. Our results demonstrate that publicly available remote sensing time series deep embeddings outperform the current state-of-the-art hand crafted features in NFI species classification in the Netherlands, yielding performance gains of roughly 7 to 9 percentage points in overall accuracy and up to 17 points in macro-F1 on the NFI datasets at the reference plot level. This indicates that classic hand defined features are too simple for this task and highlights the potential of using deep embeddings for data-limited applications such as NFI classification. Country-scale maps built from the pre-computed embeddings reach accuracy consistent with the plot-level results and with an independent comparison against the NFI. By leveraging openly available satellite data and deep embeddings from pre-trained models, this approach consistently improves classification accuracy compared to traditional methods and can effectively complement existing forest inventory processes.
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