A Survey on Mapping of Urban Green Spaces within Remote Sensing Data Using Machine Learning & Deep Learning Techniques

Abstract

For environmental protection, urban planning, monitoring, and management of the urban ecosystem, mapping urban green spaces is a crucial undertaking. A vital source of information for United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11.7 could come from urban green space mapping. The standard method of mapping urban green spaces requires field measurements and takes a lot of time. It is also important to update urban green space maps periodically because urban green spaces can change quickly over time due to development. With the advent of high-resolution satellite sensors like Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2, a large number of remote sensing images may be gathered, providing quick and precise information over urban areas. This work intends to offer a new perspective on how crowd sourced geospatial big data and remote sensing may be combined to enhance the mapping of urban green spaces, including time optimization and accurate information through machine learning and deep learning. For the revitalization of cities, this data will be valuable. Remote sensing imagery data can be classified using machine learning techniques like Support vector machines (SVM), Random forests (RF), and Naive Bayes (NB). In deep learning techniques such as Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), K Nearest Neighbor (KNN), Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) can be used to classify remote sensing images.