Weak Labeling for Cropland Mapping in Africa

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07014v1
• Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 08:45:41 GMT
• Title: Weak Labeling for Cropland Mapping in Africa
• Authors: Gilles Quentin Hacheme, Akram Zaytar, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Caleb Robinson, Rahul Dodhia, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Stephen Wood
• Abstract summary: Cropland mapping can play a vital role in addressing environmental, agricultural, and food security challenges. In Africa, practical applications are often hindered by the limited availability of high-resolution cropland maps. We propose an approach that utilizes unsupervised object clustering to refine existing weak labels.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Cropland mapping can play a vital role in addressing environmental, agricultural, and food security challenges. However, in the context of Africa, practical applications are often hindered by the limited availability of high-resolution cropland maps. Such maps typically require extensive human labeling, thereby creating a scalability bottleneck. To address this, we propose an approach that utilizes unsupervised object clustering to refine existing weak labels, such as those obtained from global cropland maps. The refined labels, in conjunction with sparse human annotations, serve as training data for a semantic segmentation network designed to identify cropland areas. We conduct experiments to demonstrate the benefits of the improved weak labels generated by our method. In a scenario where we train our model with only 33 human-annotated labels, the F_1 score for the cropland category increases from 0.53 to 0.84 when we add the mined negative labels.

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