Abstract
Habitat mapping is essential for the management and monitoring of Natura 2000 sites. Time-consuming field surveys are still the most frequently used solution for the implementation of the European Habitats Directive, but the use of remote sensing tools for this is becoming more common. The high temporal resolution of Sentinel-2 data, registering the visible, near, and shortwave infrared ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum, makes them valuable material in this context. In this study, we aimed to use multitemporal Sentinel-2 data for mapping three grassland Natura 2000 habitats in Poland. We performed the classification based on spectro-temporal features extracted from data collected from eight different terms within the year 2017 using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), and we also tested other widely used machine learning algorithms for comparison, such as Random Forests (RFs) and Support Vector Machines (SVMs). Based on ground truth data, we randomly selected training and validation polygons and then performed the evaluation iteratively (100 times). The best resulting median F1 accuracies that we obtained for habitats were as follows: 6210, 0.85; 6410, 0.80; and 6510, 0.84 (with SVM). Finally, we concluded that the accuracy of the results was comparable, but we obtained the best results using SVM (median OA = 88%, with 86% for RF and 84% for CNNs). In this work, we confirmed the usefulness of the spectral dimension of Sentinel-2 time series data for mapping grassland habitats, and researchers of future work can further develop the use of CNNs for this purpose.
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