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Genetic Programming for High-Level Feature Learning in Crop Classification

文献类型： 外文期刊

作者： Lu, Miao;Bi, Ying;Xue, Bing;Hu, Qiong;Zhang, Mengjie;Wei, Yanbing;Yang, Peng;Wu, Wenbin

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关键词： crop classification;genetic programming;feature learning;high-level features;genetic programming representation

期刊名称： REMOTE SENSING

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年卷期： 2022 年 14.0 卷 16 期

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摘要： Information on crop spatial distribution is essential for agricultural monitoring and food security. Classification with remote-sensing time series images is an effective way to obtain crop distribution maps across time and space. Optimal features are the precondition for crop classification and are critical to the accuracy of crop maps. Although several approaches are available for extracting spectral, temporal, and phenological features for crop identification, these methods depend heavily on domain knowledge and human experiences, adding uncertainty to the final crop classification. This study proposed a novel Genetic Programming (GP) approach to learning high-level features from time series images for crop classification to address this issue. We developed a new representation of GP to extend the GP tree's width and depth to dynamically generate either fixed or flexible informative features without requiring domain knowledge. This new GP approach was wrapped with four classifiers, i.e., K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Decision Tree (DT), Naive Bayes (NB), and Support Vector Machine (SVM), and was then used for crop classification based on MODIS time series data in Heilongjiang Province, China. The performance of the GP features was compared with the traditional features of vegetation indices (VIs) and the advanced feature learning method Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) to show GP effectiveness. The experiments indicated that high-level features learned by GP improved the classification accuracies, and the accuracies were higher than those using VIs and MLP. GP was more robust and stable for diverse classifiers, different feature numbers, and various training sample sets compared with classification using VI features and the classifier MLP. The proposed GP approach automatically selects valuable features from the original data and uses them to construct high-level features simultaneously. The learned features are explainable, unlike those of a black-box deep learning model. This study demonstrated the outstanding performance of GP for feature learning in crop classification. GP has the potential of becoming a mainstream method to solve complex remote sensing tasks, such as feature transfer learning, image classification, and change detection.

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