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Boundary information of agricultural fields is essential to many agricultural applications, particularly at the field level. This paper investigates the use of high-resolution remote sensing images to delineate the boundaries of agricultural fields. We consider the delineation task a multi-Task semantic segmentation problem and use a recent deep neural network, i.e., Psi-Net, to do the semantic segmentation. The structure of a Psi-Net consists of an encoder and three decoders. The decoders learn three parallel tasks, corresponding to a primary task (i.e., mask prediction) and two additional tasks (i.e., contour detection and distance map estimation). The additional tasks are used to regularize the mask prediction to produce a refined mask with smooth boundaries. We conducted experiments on a GF1 PMS satellite image (2m) acquired in the 21st regiment of the 2nd agricultural division of Xinjiang. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we compared it with existing single task semantic segmentation using UNet. Our results show that the proposed method using Psi-Net performed better than the existing method from the perspective of geometric and attribute accuracies. We conclude that the proposed Psi-Net method has a high potential for extracting field boundaries from high-resolution remote sensing images. © 2022 IEEE.
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Year: 2022
Language: English
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