Unsupervised Deep Learning for Landslide Detection from Multispectral Sentinel-2 Imagery

This paper proposes a new approach based on an unsupervised deep learning (DL) model for landslide detection. Recently, supervised DL models using convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been widely studied for landslide detection. Even though these models provide robust performance and reliable re...

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Autores principales: Hejar Shahabi, Maryam Rahimzad, Sepideh Tavakkoli Piralilou, Omid Ghorbanzadeh, Saied Homayouni, Thomas Blaschke, Samsung Lim, Pedram Ghamisi
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:c1812dc727b74ae59124462201e824462021-11-25T18:55:31ZUnsupervised Deep Learning for Landslide Detection from Multispectral Sentinel-2 Imagery10.3390/rs132246982072-4292https://doaj.org/article/c1812dc727b74ae59124462201e824462021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/22/4698https://doaj.org/toc/2072-4292This paper proposes a new approach based on an unsupervised deep learning (DL) model for landslide detection. Recently, supervised DL models using convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been widely studied for landslide detection. Even though these models provide robust performance and reliable results, they depend highly on a large labeled dataset for their training step. As an alternative, in this paper, we developed an unsupervised learning model by employing a convolutional auto-encoder (CAE) to deal with the problem of limited labeled data for training. The CAE was used to learn and extract the abstract and high-level features without using training data. To assess the performance of the proposed approach, we used Sentinel-2 imagery and a digital elevation model (DEM) to map landslides in three different case studies in India, China, and Taiwan. Using minimum noise fraction (MNF) transformation, we reduced the multispectral dimension to three features containing more than 80% of scene information. Next, these features were stacked with slope data and NDVI as inputs to the CAE model. The Huber reconstruction loss was used to evaluate the inputs. We achieved reconstruction losses ranging from 0.10 to 0.147 for the MNF features, slope, and NDVI stack for all three study areas. The mini-batch K-means clustering method was used to cluster the features into two to five classes. To evaluate the impact of deep features on landslide detection, we first clustered a stack of MNF features, slope, and NDVI, then the same ones plus with the deep features. For all cases, clustering based on deep features provided the highest precision, recall, F1-score, and mean intersection over the union in landslide detection.Hejar ShahabiMaryam RahimzadSepideh Tavakkoli PiralilouOmid GhorbanzadehSaied HomayouniThomas BlaschkeSamsung LimPedram GhamisiMDPI AGarticlelandslide mappingremote sensingunsupervised feature learningconvolutional auto-encoder (CAE)mini-batch K-meansScienceQENRemote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 4698, p 4698 (2021)
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language EN
topic landslide mapping
remote sensing
unsupervised feature learning
convolutional auto-encoder (CAE)
mini-batch K-means
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spellingShingle landslide mapping
remote sensing
unsupervised feature learning
convolutional auto-encoder (CAE)
mini-batch K-means
Science
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Hejar Shahabi
Maryam Rahimzad
Sepideh Tavakkoli Piralilou
Omid Ghorbanzadeh
Saied Homayouni
Thomas Blaschke
Samsung Lim
Pedram Ghamisi
Unsupervised Deep Learning for Landslide Detection from Multispectral Sentinel-2 Imagery
description This paper proposes a new approach based on an unsupervised deep learning (DL) model for landslide detection. Recently, supervised DL models using convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been widely studied for landslide detection. Even though these models provide robust performance and reliable results, they depend highly on a large labeled dataset for their training step. As an alternative, in this paper, we developed an unsupervised learning model by employing a convolutional auto-encoder (CAE) to deal with the problem of limited labeled data for training. The CAE was used to learn and extract the abstract and high-level features without using training data. To assess the performance of the proposed approach, we used Sentinel-2 imagery and a digital elevation model (DEM) to map landslides in three different case studies in India, China, and Taiwan. Using minimum noise fraction (MNF) transformation, we reduced the multispectral dimension to three features containing more than 80% of scene information. Next, these features were stacked with slope data and NDVI as inputs to the CAE model. The Huber reconstruction loss was used to evaluate the inputs. We achieved reconstruction losses ranging from 0.10 to 0.147 for the MNF features, slope, and NDVI stack for all three study areas. The mini-batch K-means clustering method was used to cluster the features into two to five classes. To evaluate the impact of deep features on landslide detection, we first clustered a stack of MNF features, slope, and NDVI, then the same ones plus with the deep features. For all cases, clustering based on deep features provided the highest precision, recall, F1-score, and mean intersection over the union in landslide detection.
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author Hejar Shahabi
Maryam Rahimzad
Sepideh Tavakkoli Piralilou
Omid Ghorbanzadeh
Saied Homayouni
Thomas Blaschke
Samsung Lim
Pedram Ghamisi
author_facet Hejar Shahabi
Maryam Rahimzad
Sepideh Tavakkoli Piralilou
Omid Ghorbanzadeh
Saied Homayouni
Thomas Blaschke
Samsung Lim
Pedram Ghamisi
author_sort Hejar Shahabi
title Unsupervised Deep Learning for Landslide Detection from Multispectral Sentinel-2 Imagery
title_short Unsupervised Deep Learning for Landslide Detection from Multispectral Sentinel-2 Imagery
title_full Unsupervised Deep Learning for Landslide Detection from Multispectral Sentinel-2 Imagery
title_fullStr Unsupervised Deep Learning for Landslide Detection from Multispectral Sentinel-2 Imagery
title_full_unstemmed Unsupervised Deep Learning for Landslide Detection from Multispectral Sentinel-2 Imagery
title_sort unsupervised deep learning for landslide detection from multispectral sentinel-2 imagery
publisher MDPI AG
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/c1812dc727b74ae59124462201e82446
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