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Arid Land Geography ›› 2023, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (11): 1803-1812.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2023.057

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Extraction of check dam system in small watershed of Loess Plateau based on deep learning and OBIA

QIAN Wei1(),WANG Chun2,3(),DAI Wen4,LU Wangda1,LI Min3,4,TAO Yu2,3,LI Mengqi4   

  1. 1. School of Remote Sensing and Surveying Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 211800, Jiangsu, China
    2. School of Geographic Information and Tourism, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou 239000, Anhui, China
    3. Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Real Scene Simulation and Environmental Display, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou 239000, Anhui, China
    4. School of Geography Science, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 211800, Jiangsu, China
  • Received:2023-02-14 Revised:2023-03-30 Online:2023-11-25 Published:2023-12-05

Abstract:

Check dams play an irreplaceable role in preventing and controlling soil erosion in the Loess Plateau of China. Accurately extracting check dam areas and their locations holds immense importance for soil and water conservation studies in the Loess Plateau of China. However, existing image classification methods lack consideration of the topographic features of check dams, leading to many misidentifications. This study proposes a method that combines object-based image analysis (OBIA) and deep learning to precisely identify check dam areas and their locations. First, a multiscale segmentation method based on an object-oriented approach is used to segment the multisource data. Deep learning is applied to identify check dams. The results from these processes were fused using majority voting to enhance the accuracy of check dam area extraction. Second, the river network within the basin is extracted based on digital elevation model data. Finally, the check dam areas and river network are intersected to determine the check dam locations. The results show that the precision and recall rates of this method are 81.97% and 90.94%, respectively, and an F1Score value of 89.70%, which is 21.94% higher than the methods using only OBIA. Additionally, the accuracy and completeness of automatically identified check dam locations are 81.08% and 88.89%, respectively. This method provides important data for the optimal spatial layout of check dams in the Loess Plateau and for the evaluation of soil and water loss.

Key words: silt range extraction, extraction of check dam points, object-bases image analysis (OBIA), U-Net framework, Loess Plateau