Summary of Assessment Of Sentinel-2 Spatial and Temporal Coverage Based on the Scene Classification Layer, by Cristhian Sanchez et al.
Assessment of Sentinel-2 spatial and temporal coverage based on the scene classification layer
by Cristhian Sanchez, Francisco Mena, Marcela Charfuelan, Marlon Nuske, Andreas Dengel
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel technique to assess the clean optical coverage of regions using Sentinel-2 (S2) data and its scene classification layer (SCL). The method assigns a percentage of spatial and temporal coverage across time series and a high/low assessment. By evaluating the AI4EO challenge for Enhanced Agriculture, it shows that the assessment is correlated with predictive results from machine learning models. The study highlights the importance of clean optical coverage in ML model performance, demonstrating that classification results are worse in regions with low spatial and temporal coverage compared to those with high coverage. The technique was applied across all continents on the global dataset LandCoverNet. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research helps us better understand how much clear satellite data we have available at any given time and location. They developed a way to measure this using Sentinel-2 satellite images and their classification layer. This is important because it shows that the quality of these images affects how well machine learning models can make predictions about things like crop yields or soil health. The researchers tested their method on a big dataset covering all continents and found that areas with good image quality do better than those with poor quality. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Machine learning » Time series
