Forest Parameter Prediction by Multiobjective Deep Learning of Regression Models Trained with Pseudo-Target Imputation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11103v1
• Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 18:10:47 GMT
• Title: Forest Parameter Prediction by Multiobjective Deep Learning of Regression Models Trained with Pseudo-Target Imputation
• Authors: Sara Bj\"ork, Stian N. Anfinsen, Michael Kampffmeyer, Erik N{\ae}sset, Terje Gobakken, and Lennart Noordermeer
• Abstract summary: In prediction of forest parameters with data from remote sensing, regression models have traditionally been trained on a small sample of ground reference data. This paper proposes to impute this sample of true prediction targets with data from an existing RS-based prediction map that we consider as pseudo-targets. We use prediction maps constructed from airborne laser scanning (ALS) data to provide accurate pseudo-targets and free data from Sentinel-1's C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) as regressors.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In prediction of forest parameters with data from remote sensing (RS), regression models have traditionally been trained on a small sample of ground reference data. This paper proposes to impute this sample of true prediction targets with data from an existing RS-based prediction map that we consider as pseudo-targets. This substantially increases the amount of target training data and leverages the use of deep learning (DL) for semi-supervised regression modelling. We use prediction maps constructed from airborne laser scanning (ALS) data to provide accurate pseudo-targets and free data from Sentinel-1's C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) as regressors. A modified U-Net architecture is adapted with a selection of different training objectives. We demonstrate that when a judicious combination of loss functions is used, the semi-supervised imputation strategy produces results that surpass traditional ALS-based regression models, even though \sen data are considered as inferior for forest monitoring. These results are consistent for experiments on above-ground biomass prediction in Tanzania and stem volume prediction in Norway, representing a diversity in parameters and forest types that emphasises the robustness of the approach.

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