Mapping dispersed houses in rural areas of Colombia by exploiting planet satellite images with convolutional neural networks

Darwin A. Arrechea-Castillo; Yady T. Solano-Correa; Julián F. Muñoz-Ordóñez; Edgar L. Pencue-Fierro; Estiven Sánchez-Barrera

doi:10.1117/12.2664029

15 June 2023 Mapping dispersed houses in rural areas of Colombia by exploiting planet satellite images with convolutional neural networks

Darwin A. Arrechea-Castillo, Yady T. Solano-Correa, Julián F. Muñoz-Ordóñez, Edgar L. Pencue-Fierro, Estiven Sánchez-Barrera

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Proceedings Volume 12525, Geospatial Informatics XIII ; 1252503 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2664029
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2023, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 11 aims at making cities and human settlements more inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. Complying with SDG 11 is a difficult task, especially when considering rural settlements where: (i) population settles in a dispersed manner; and (ii) geography complexity and social dynamics of the area make it difficult to monitor and capture data. One example of such areas can be found in the South-West of Colombia, in the Las Piedras River sub-basin. The National Administrative Department of Statistics in Colombia (DANE in Spanish) aims at mapping the population and houses in dispersed and difficult-to-access rural settlements in an accurate and continuous way. Nevertheless, there are several difficulties (derived from the in-situ way of collecting the data) that prevent such data from being generated. This research presents a methodology to carry out an updated mapping of rural areas with high spatial resolution data coming from PlanetScope (3 m). Such a mapping considers the dynamics of housing growth, focusing on dispersed and difficult-to-access rural settlements. To this aim, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are used together with PlanetScope data, allowing to account for average houses size (≥12 𝑚²) in the study area. Preliminary results show a detection accuracy above 95%, in average, according to geography complexity.

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Darwin A. Arrechea-Castillo, Yady T. Solano-Correa, Julián F. Muñoz-Ordóñez, Edgar L. Pencue-Fierro, and Estiven Sánchez-Barrera "Mapping dispersed houses in rural areas of Colombia by exploiting planet satellite images with convolutional neural networks", Proc. SPIE 12525, Geospatial Informatics XIII , 1252503 (15 June 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2664029

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