Deep One-Class Crop Extraction Framework for Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Imagery

Large scale crop mapping is an important task in agricultural resource monitoring. To obtain a distribution map of crops, traditional methods usually require the well-designed manufacture features and the ground-truth labels of all land-cover types for training a multi-class classifier. However, the redundant labeling for each land-cover type is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the feature design for different remote sensing data is complex and limited to human prior knowledge. In this paper, a deep one-class crop extraction framework is proposed to solve the problems mentioned above. Specifically, it uses the deep one-class crop extraction module to extract the feature automatically for any remote sensing imagery and the one-class crop extraction loss to address the lack of negative class in the deep one-class classification model. In addition, the proposed framework can be applied to multi-modal remote sensing data, i.e. hyperspectral, multispectral, and SAR images, which is verified in the experiments and the proposed framework can achieve the highest accuracy on each multi-modal data.