Land Use Land Classification (LULC) Change Detection with High Cadence
Multimodal Image Time Series and Self-Supervised Learning.
Abstract
We believe that the future of Earth Observation (EO) is in fusion,
harmonization, and interoperability of satellite imagery. Intensified
monitoring leads to better understanding of land use and reduction of
maintenance costs for all Land Cover products. RapidAI4EO is an
initiative that aims to establish the foundations for the next
generation of Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) products. The
goal is to provide intensified monitoring of Land Use (LU), Land Cover
(LC) changes at a much higher spatial resolution and temporal cadence
than is possible today. Key objectives are to explore, evaluate, and
quantify state of the art deep learning algorithms and methodologies
that leverage three meter, daily time series, in conjunction with higher
spectral resolution Sentinel-2 imagery. Consortium Partners: The
RapidAI4EO projects brings together Planet Labs PBC, the operator of the
world’s largest fleet of Earth-imaging satellites and the recognized
leader of the CubeSat revolution, VITO, the main production center of
the Copernicus Global Land Service, Vision Impulse, a recent spin-off of
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI, the largest
research center for Artificial Intelligence in the world and one of the
two European NVIDIA AI Labs), the International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis (IIASA) whose Center for Earth Observation and Citizen
Science (EOCS) devises new approaches and technologies to collect data
on land cover and land use, and Serco Italia, a worldwide service
provider to governments, international agencies and industries, and
operator of the ONDA DIAS platform. The objectives of RapidAI4EO are: 1)
the creation and release of the most comprehensive spatiotemporal EO
training sets ever produced for machine learning; 2) the development
and implementation of novel AI solutions for continuous change detection
that leverage these data sets; 3)the ability to drive frequent temporal
updates of the Corine Land Cover (CLC) product; and 4)to demonstrate
improved LULC mapping using harmonized Sentinel-2 and very high
resolution, high cadence data streams.