用雷达纹理提升非洲贫民窟地图精度,跨季节更稳定。
Context-Aware Slum Mapping in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Sentinel-1 Texture and Local Climate Zones

- 融合光学与雷达数据,用纹理特征区分贫民窟和普通低密度区。
- 模型整体准确率达81.6%(干季),比基准提升11个百分点。
- 适合城市规划者在缺数据地区做长期监测,尤其关注季节变化。
在撒哈拉以南非洲城市,精确绘制非正式住区仍是重大挑战,因光学影像难以区分非正式住区(定义为LCZ 7)与光谱相似的正式紧凑低层区(LCZ 3)。本研究提出一种上下文感知、可复现的光学-合成孔径雷达(SAR)框架,利用哨兵2号光谱特征与哨兵1号结构信息,在改进的局部气候区(LCZ)分类体系下提升非正式住区识别能力。采用三级SAR集成策略:校准后向散射、GLCM纹理及基于物理引导的特征工程,以捕捉非洲非正式住区高结构无序与弱雷达回波特性。基于内罗毕与埃尔多雷特(肯尼亚)的参考数据,通过分层留出验证与季节敏感消融实验评估性能。结果显示,SAR纹理带来主要性能提升;光学-SAR模型在干季与湿季整体准确率分别为0.816与0.807,显著优于WUDAPT基线(OA 0.704),并使关键的LCZ 3-LCZ 7混淆率降至7%。季节分析表明,虽光学仅分离性随物候变化,但SAR衍生纹理能稳定非正式住区制图。结果表明,引入SAR特征可在数据稀缺环境下跨季节、跨城市实现一致改进,但跨城迁移仍需本地适应策略。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate mapping of informal settlements remains a major challenge in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) cities because optical imagery often fails to distinguish Informal Settlements (defined here as LCZ 7) from spectrally similar formal Compact Low-Rise areas (LCZ 3). This study presents a context-aware, reproducible Optical-SAR framework that improves informal settlement delineation using Sentinel-2 spectral features and Sentinel-1 structural information within an adapted Local Climate Zone (LCZ) taxonomy. We implement a three-tier SAR integration strategy: calibrated backscatter, GLCM textures, and a physics-guided feature engineered to capture the high structural disorder and weak radar return characteristic of SSA informal settlements. Using reference data across Nairobi and Eldoret (Kenya), we evaluate performance via a stratified hold-out protocol and a season-aware ablation study. Results show that SAR textures provide the dominant performance gain for LCZ 7 detection. The Optical-SAR model achieves overall accuracy of 0.816 (dry) and 0.807 (wet), significantly outperforming the WUDAPT baseline (OA 0.704) and reducing the critical LCZ 3 - LCZ 7 confusion to 7%. Seasonal analysis indicates that while optical-only separability varies with phenology, SAR-derived textures stabilize informal settlement mapping across seasons. These findings demonstrate that the incorporation of SAR-derived features yields consistent improvements for urban morphology mapping in data-scarce environments across seasons and across the evaluated source cities, while cross-city transfer remains limited without local adaptation strategies.
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