A Modeling Method for Automatic Extraction of Offshore Aquaculture Zones Based on Semantic Segmentation

• Main Authors: Baikai Sui, Tao Jiang, Zhen Zhang, Xinliang Pan, Chenxi Liu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-02-01
• Series: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
• Subjects: offshore aquaculture; semantic segmentation; generative adversarial networks; high-resolution remote sensing image
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/9/3/145

Monitoring of offshore aquaculture zones is important to marine ecological environment protection and maritime safety and security. Remote sensing technology has the advantages of large-area simultaneous observation and strong timeliness, which provide normalized monitoring of marine aquaculture zones. Aiming at the problems of weak generalization ability and low recognition rate in weak signal environments of traditional target recognition algorithm, this paper proposes a method for automatic extraction of offshore fish cage and floating raft aquaculture zones based on semantic segmentation. This method uses Generative Adversarial Networks to expand the data to compensate for the lack of training samples, and uses ratio of green band to red band (G/R) instead of red band to enhance the characteristics of aquaculture spectral information, combined with atrous convolution and atrous space pyramid pooling to enhance the context semantic information, to extract and identify two types of offshore fish cage zones and floating raft aquaculture zones. The experiment is carried out in the eastern coastal waters of Shandong Province, China, and the overall identification accuracy of the two types of aquaculture zones can reach 94.8%. The results show that the method proposed in this paper can realize high-precision extraction both of offshore fish cage and floating raft aquaculture zones.