Figures & data
Figure 1. 3D convolution indicates convolution operator is implemented in three directions (i.e. two spatial directions and a temporal direction) sequentially. Both the input feature maps and the output feature maps are 3D tensors.
![Figure 1. 3D convolution indicates convolution operator is implemented in three directions (i.e. two spatial directions and a temporal direction) sequentially. Both the input feature maps and the output feature maps are 3D tensors.](/cms/asset/28eb8b46-4378-497c-9cdc-9d606bc731f3/tgsi_a_2017237_f0001_c.jpg)
Figure 3. The receptive field of two stacked (3 × 3) convolution layers is equivalent to a (5 × 5) convolution layer.
![Figure 3. The receptive field of two stacked (3 × 3) convolution layers is equivalent to a (5 × 5) convolution layer.](/cms/asset/2401a914-043d-4370-b22d-aa40e5649e08/tgsi_a_2017237_f0003_c.jpg)
Figure 9. GF2 datasets gathered in (a) 2015, and (b) 2017. Each dataset owns four crop species labeled in different colors, and black pixels represent label information is absent. Patches indicated in red rectangles were utilized to train the network and the remainder to prediction.
![Figure 9. GF2 datasets gathered in (a) 2015, and (b) 2017. Each dataset owns four crop species labeled in different colors, and black pixels represent label information is absent. Patches indicated in red rectangles were utilized to train the network and the remainder to prediction.](/cms/asset/46eecdf2-d491-4fa7-b9b0-3b4df9b95227/tgsi_a_2017237_f0009_c.jpg)
Table 1. The samples in WHDLD and GID datasets for each category for training, validation, and test
Table 2. The samples in 2015 and 2017 datasets for each category for training and test
Table 3. The experimental results on WHDLD and GID
Table 4. Per class F1-score performance on WHDLD and GID
Figure 11. Land cover classification results of the method proposed and comparisons on (a) WHDLD and (b) GID.
![Figure 11. Land cover classification results of the method proposed and comparisons on (a) WHDLD and (b) GID.](/cms/asset/fcb7cab4-92e8-4ff6-b734-e16a7fba8c1b/tgsi_a_2017237_f0011_c.jpg)
Table 5. The comparison of parameters and computational complexity for 2D datasets, where “M” is the abbreviation of million, the unit of parameter number, and “G” is the abbreviation of Gillion (thousand million), the unit of floating point operations
Table 6. The experimental results using different methods on 2015 dataset and 2017 dataset
Table 7. Per class F1-score performance on 2015 dataset and 2017 dataset
Table 8. The comparison of parameters and computational complexity for 3D datasets, where “M” is the abbreviation of million, the unit of parameter number, and “G” is the abbreviation of Gillion (thousand million), the unit of floating point operations
Figure 13. Land cover classification results of the method proposed and comparisons on the 2015 dataset and 2017 dataset, where the first three rows are from the 2015 dataset, and the remainder is from the 2017 dataset.
![Figure 13. Land cover classification results of the method proposed and comparisons on the 2015 dataset and 2017 dataset, where the first three rows are from the 2015 dataset, and the remainder is from the 2017 dataset.](/cms/asset/a59043f8-3c07-413b-afe7-9f105caea385/tgsi_a_2017237_f0013_c.jpg)
Table 9. The effectiveness of the Multi-Scale Convolutional Block and attention mechanisms on WHDLD and GID
Table 10. The comparison between the number of layers and the number of channels on the GID dataset
Table 11. The comparison of parameters and computational complexity for variants of MSFCN, where “M” is the abbreviation of million, the unit of parameter number, and “G” is the abbreviation of Gillion (thousand million), the unit of floating point operations
Data availability statement
The data used to support the findings of this study are included within the article.
WHDLD:https://sites.google.com/view/zhouwx/dataset?authuser=0#h.p_ebsAS1Bikmkd