Graph Neural Network-Based Method of Spatiotemporal Land Cover Mapping Using Satellite Imagery

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Multispectral satellite imagery offers a new perspective for spatial modelling, change detection and land cover classification. The increased demand for accurate classification of geographically diverse regions led to advances in object-based methods. A novel spatiotemporal method is presented for object-based land cover classification of satellite imagery using a Graph Neural Network. This paper introduces innovative representation of sequential satellite images as a directed graph by connecting segmented land region through time. The method’s novel modular node classification pipeline utilises the Convolutional Neural Network as a multispectral image feature extraction network, and the Graph Neural Network as a node classification model. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we utilised EfficientNetV2-S for feature extraction and the GraphSAGE algorithm with Long Short-Term Memory aggregation for node classification. This innovative application on Sentinel-2 L2A imagery produced complete 4-year intermonthly land cover classification maps for two regions: Graz in Austria, and the region of Portorož, Izola and Koper in Slovenia. The regions were classified with Corine Land Cover classes. In the level 2 classification of the Graz region, the method outperformed the state-of-the-art UNet model, achieving an average F1-score of 0.841 and an accuracy of 0.831, as opposed to UNet’s 0.824 and 0.818, respectively. Similarly, the method demonstrated superior performance over UNet in both regions under the level 1 classification, which contains fewer classes. Individual classes have been classified with accuracies up to 99.17%.

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Kavran, D., Mongus, D., Žalik, B., & Lukač, N. (2023). Graph Neural Network-Based Method of Spatiotemporal Land Cover Mapping Using Satellite Imagery. Sensors, 23(14). https://doi.org/10.3390/s23146648

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