A method for estimating the engineering quantity of soil stripping of ploughing layer based on image data processing
By fusing multi-source remote sensing image data and using deep learning models, the problem of inaccurate identification of soil stripping boundaries under cloud cover, vegetation cover, or artificial camouflage was solved, achieving high-precision and automated estimation of soil stripping engineering volume and improving the completeness and accuracy of identification.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202610230661.6
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Patents(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2026-02-27
- Publication Date
- 2026-05-15
- Estimated Expiration
- 2046-02-27
AI Technical Summary
Existing technologies struggle to accurately define the boundaries and associated areas of topsoil stripping in arable land under conditions of cloud cover, vegetation cover, or artificial camouflage, resulting in insufficient robustness and interpretability in engineering quantity estimation.
By employing multi-source remote sensing image data fusion and deep learning models, a multi-dimensional feature tensor integrating optical and microwave features is constructed. Combined with a digital elevation model, a deep convolutional neural network is used to perform binary segmentation of the soil stripping area and calculate the engineering quantity.
It achieves high-precision and automated estimation of soil stripping engineering volume in complex environments, improves the completeness and accuracy of identification, and has robustness and physical interpretability.
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Technical Field
[0001] This invention belongs to the field of computer technology, specifically relating to a method for estimating the amount of soil stripping in the topsoil layer of arable land based on image data processing. Background Technology
[0002] With the increasing application of remote sensing technology and geographic information systems in natural resource monitoring and land consolidation projects, the estimation of topsoil stripping volume based on image data has become an important supporting means for land space governance and ecological restoration. This type of method typically relies on high-resolution satellite or aerial imagery to identify exposed soil areas through visual features and then uses digital elevation models to calculate the stripping volume. However, this approach is highly dependent on surface visibility and faces multiple interference factors in practical applications: cloud cover leading to image gaps, vegetation cover obscuring the true surface condition, and the common occurrence of artificially laid dust nets or temporary coverings to evade monitoring make it difficult to accurately define the true boundaries of stripping operations and their associated activity areas using only optical images.
[0003] Accurate estimation of the amount of topsoil stripping in cultivated land requires not only identifying the spatial extent of the stripping start and end surfaces, but also clarifying the flow direction and temporary disposal path of the stripped soil. Traditional image analysis methods are limited to pixel-level discrimination and lack the ability to model the logical chain of engineering behavior. They cannot effectively correlate the semantic relationships between multi-dimensional entities such as suspected stripping areas, transportation channels, storage sites, and vehicle movement trajectories, resulting in estimation results that are susceptible to local occlusion or camouflage interference, leading to systematic biases.
[0004] Existing technologies mostly employ image segmentation or change detection models driven by a single data source. While these models can achieve high-precision region extraction under ideal conditions, they exhibit fragility in complex real-world environments. The lack of integration with heterogeneous data—such as traffic checkpoint records and social media geotagged images—that possess spatiotemporal corroboration value, makes it difficult to construct a complete chain of evidence for engineering activities. Furthermore, the absence of a modeling mechanism for the inherent topological structure of the stripping activity prevents the use of graph structures to express the dynamic interactions between participating elements. This results in a lack of robustness and interpretability in intelligent estimation of the stripping range under conditions of cloud cover, partial vegetation coverage, or deliberate camouflage, hindering regulatory efficiency and the fairness of engineering quantity calculation. Therefore, an intelligent estimation method that integrates multi-source heterogeneous data and possesses relational reasoning capabilities is urgently needed. Summary of the Invention
[0005] This invention provides a method for estimating the amount of soil stripping in arable land based on image data processing. It aims to solve the technical problem that it is difficult to completely and accurately define the boundaries and associated areas of soil stripping by relying solely on visual images when the soil is obscured by clouds, partially covered by vegetation, or intended to be camouflaged.
[0006] This invention provides a method for estimating the amount of soil stripping in the topsoil of arable land based on image data processing, including:
[0007] Acquire multi-source remote sensing image data of the target area, including visible light band images, near-infrared band images, short-wave infrared band images, and synthetic aperture radar images;
[0008] Radiometric, geometric, and atmospheric corrections are performed on the multi-source remote sensing image data to generate a standardized image dataset.
[0009] Based on the standardized image dataset, a multidimensional feature tensor that integrates optical and microwave features is constructed. The multidimensional feature tensor includes spectral reflectance features, texture features, polarization scattering features, and terrain elevation features.
[0010] The multidimensional feature tensor is input into a pre-trained farmland topsoil change detection model, and a binary segmentation mask of the soil stripping area is output.
[0011] Based on the binary segmentation mask and combined with digital elevation model data, the volume change of the stripping area is calculated, and converted into the amount of soil stripping work according to the preset average thickness parameter of the topsoil layer.
[0012] Preferably, the acquisition of multi-source remote sensing image data of the target area includes:
[0013] Visible light, near-infrared and short-wave infrared images of the target area before and after soil stripping operations were acquired using an optical remote sensing satellite platform.
[0014] Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite platforms acquire single-polarization or dual-polarization SAR images of the target area within the same time window.
[0015] Preferably, the step of performing radiometric correction, geometric correction, and atmospheric correction on the multi-source remote sensing image data to generate a standardized image dataset includes:
[0016] The original digital quantization values are converted into apparent reflectivity or backscattering coefficients using absolute radiometric calibration coefficients;
[0017] Orthorectification is performed using ground control points and digital elevation models to eliminate geometric distortions caused by terrain undulations;
[0018] For optical images, atmospheric effects are corrected using a dark target subtraction model or a fast atmospheric correction model to output the true surface reflectance.
[0019] For synthetic aperture radar imagery, Lee filtering or Gamma MAP filtering is used to suppress speckle noise, and topographic radiometric correction is performed to eliminate the influence of slope on backscatter intensity.
[0020] Preferably, the construction of the multidimensional feature tensor integrating optical and microwave features includes:
[0021] Normalized vegetation index, soil-adjusted vegetation index, enhanced vegetation index, and bare soil index were extracted from corrected visible and near-infrared images.
[0022] Moisture stress index and mineral index were extracted from shortwave infrared images;
[0023] Extract HH polarization backscattering coefficient, HV polarization backscattering coefficient, polarization ratio and coherence characteristics from synthetic aperture radar images;
[0024] Extract slope, aspect, curvature, and relative elevation difference from the digital elevation model;
[0025] Align all the above features according to their pixel positions to form a feature vector corresponding to each pixel, thus forming a complete multidimensional feature tensor.
[0026] Preferably, the cultivated land topsoil change detection model is a deep convolutional neural network based on an encoder-decoder architecture. Its encoder part consists of 5 downsampling stages, each stage containing 2 convolutional layers, a batch normalization layer and a modified linear unit activation function. Downsampling is achieved through max pooling.
[0027] The decoder consists of four upsampling stages. Each stage restores the feature map size through transposed convolution and performs channel concatenation with the feature map of the corresponding layer of the encoder.
[0028] A convolutional layer and a sigmoid activation function are set at the end of the network to output a soil stripping probability map of the same size as the input image;
[0029] The cultivated land topsoil change detection model uses a sample set labeled with real soil stripping boundaries for supervised learning during the training phase. The loss function is a weighted sum of weighted binary cross-entropy and Dice loss, and the weight coefficients are dynamically adjusted according to the ratio of positive and negative samples.
[0030] Preferably, the binary segmentation mask for the output soil stripping area includes:
[0031] The soil stripping probability map output by the farmland topsoil change detection model is compared with a preset threshold.
[0032] When the probability value of a pixel is greater than or equal to the preset threshold, it is marked as a stripped region and assigned a value of 1; otherwise, it is marked as a non-stripped region and assigned a value of 0.
[0033] Morphological closing operations and connected component analysis are performed on the obtained binary image to remove isolated regions with an area of less than 100 square meters, and to retain continuous stripped regions with an area that conforms to the actual engineering requirements, thus forming the final binary segmentation mask.
[0034] Preferably, the calculation of the volume change of the stripped region includes:
[0035] Obtain digital elevation model data for two phases, before and after the soil stripping operation;
[0036] The binary segmentation mask is superimposed on the digital elevation models of the two phases respectively, and the elevation values of all pixels in the stripped area are extracted.
[0037] Calculate the average elevation difference of the stripping area before and after the operation, denoted as . ;
[0038] like If the value is positive, it indicates that fill work has occurred and is not included in the stripping work volume; if... A value of 0 indicates no elevation change; if If the value is negative, its absolute value is taken as the effective peeling depth;
[0039] Multiply the effective stripping depth by the total area of the stripping region to obtain the stripped soil volume;
[0040] If there are local elevation anomalies in the stripped area, median filtering is used to smooth the elevation data before calculation.
[0041] Preferably, the step of converting the soil stripping work volume based on the preset average topsoil thickness parameter includes:
[0042] Set the average thickness of the topsoil layer and adjust it based on regional soil survey data;
[0043] When the calculated effective peeling depth is less than the preset thickness, the actual peeling depth shall prevail.
[0044] When the effective peeling depth is greater than or equal to the preset thickness, the preset thickness is used as the calculation benchmark;
[0045] The final soil stripping volume is equal to the stripping area multiplied by the stripping depth used for calculation, in cubic meters.
[0046] Preferably, during the training process of the farmland topsoil change detection model, a data augmentation strategy is adopted to improve the robustness of the model. The data augmentation includes random rotation, horizontal flipping, spectral perturbation, and synthetic aperture radar speckle simulation.
[0047] Simultaneously, a transfer learning mechanism is introduced, which uses weights pre-trained on a large-scale land use change dataset to initialize some parameters of the encoder, and only fine-tunes the decoder part and the final classification layer.
[0048] Preferably, the method further includes quantifying the uncertainty of the estimation result, specifically including:
[0049] Based on the consistency of prediction results from multi-temporal images, the signal-to-noise ratio of feature tensors, and the elevation error of digital elevation models, confidence intervals for engineering quantity estimation are constructed.
[0050] When the confidence level is lower than the specified value, a manual review process is triggered, prompting that corrections need to be made based on on-site verification data.
[0051] Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the present invention are as follows:
[0052] 1. By integrating optical and microwave multi-source remote sensing data, the problem of information loss in single optical images under conditions of cloud cover, vegetation cover or artificial camouflage is overcome, and the completeness and accuracy of soil stripping area identification are improved.
[0053] 2. The constructed multidimensional feature tensor integrates spectral, texture, polarization scattering and topographic information, enhancing the ability to characterize the disturbance features of the topsoil layer;
[0054] 3. End-to-end change detection is achieved using a deep learning model, avoiding the reliance on prior knowledge in traditional threshold segmentation or object-oriented classification methods;
[0055] 4. By combining a high-precision digital elevation model with preset topsoil thickness parameters, the physical interpretability of the stripping engineering quantity was realized, avoiding volume misjudgment caused by pure image analysis.
[0056] 5. The overall method is automated, highly accurate, robust, and engineering-practical, and can be widely applied to scenarios such as farmland protection supervision, land consolidation acceptance, and illegal soil extraction monitoring. Attached Figure Description
[0057] Figure 1 This is a schematic diagram of the overall technical solution architecture of the present invention;
[0058] Figure 2 This is a schematic diagram of the core principle framework of the multidimensional feature tensor construction and the arable land topsoil change detection model that integrates optical and microwave features in this invention.
[0059] Figure 3 This is a logical flowchart of the multi-source remote sensing image data acquisition and standardization preprocessing stage in this invention.
[0060] Figure 4This is a logical flowchart of the multidimensional feature tensor construction and feature fusion stage in this invention;
[0061] Figure 5 This is a flowchart illustrating the logical flow of the generation and post-processing stages of the binary segmentation mask for the soil stripping area in this invention.
[0062] Figure 6 This is a flowchart illustrating the logical flow of the calculation of volume change in the stripped area and the conversion of engineering quantities in this invention. Detailed Implementation
[0063] refer to Figures 1 to 6 This invention provides a method for estimating the engineering volume of topsoil stripping in cultivated land based on image data processing. Its core lies in overcoming the problem of inaccurate boundary identification of soil stripping areas in complex scenarios such as cloud cover, partial vegetation coverage, or artificial camouflage through multi-source remote sensing image data fusion and collaborative analysis using a deep learning model. This achieves high-precision, automated, and physically interpretable engineering volume estimation. The following will describe each step in detail with reference to the technical solution of this invention.
[0064] The method includes the following steps:
[0065] S1, acquire multi-source remote sensing image data of the target area;
[0066] S2, Perform radiometric correction, geometric correction and atmospheric correction on the multi-source remote sensing image data to generate a standardized image dataset;
[0067] S3. Based on the standardized image dataset, construct a multidimensional feature tensor that integrates optical and microwave features;
[0068] S4, input the multidimensional feature tensor into the pre-trained farmland topsoil change detection model, and output a binary segmentation mask of the soil stripping area;
[0069] S5. Based on the binary segmentation mask and combined with digital elevation model data, calculate the volume change of the stripping area and convert it into soil stripping engineering volume according to the preset average thickness parameter of the topsoil layer.
[0070] In step S1, multi-source remote sensing image data of the target area is acquired. This multi-source remote sensing image data includes visible light band images, near-infrared band images, short-wave infrared band images, and synthetic aperture radar images. The specific implementation of this step is as follows:
[0071] The target area was acquired using an optical remote sensing satellite platform, including visible light, near-infrared, and short-wave infrared images before and after soil stripping operations, with a spatial resolution of no less than 2 meters for each band. Single-polarization or dual-polarization synthetic aperture radar images of the target area were acquired using a synthetic aperture radar satellite platform within the same time window, with an incident angle ranging from 30 to 45 degrees and a spatial resolution of no less than 5 meters. The time interval between the preceding and following images was ensured to be no more than 30 calendar days, and the images covered the same geographic coordinate range.
[0072] All image data is stored in GeoTIFF format, containing complete geographic metadata information, including the projected coordinate system, pixel size, top-left corner coordinates, and number of bands. During image acquisition, the solar elevation angle, azimuth angle, atmospheric visibility, and land cover status at the time of imaging must be recorded simultaneously for dynamic adjustment of subsequent correction parameters. For synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery, the polarization mode and imaging mode must be clearly defined to ensure the physical consistency of the backscattering coefficient.
[0073] In step S2, radiometric, geometric, and atmospheric corrections are performed on the multi-source remote sensing image data to generate a standardized image dataset. The specific implementation of this step is as follows:
[0074] First, absolute radiometric calibration coefficients are used to convert the original digital quantized values into apparent reflectivity or backscattering coefficients. For optical imagery, the DN values are converted into apparent reflectivity using the gain and offset parameters provided by the satellite; for synthetic aperture radar imagery, the original complex data are converted into backscattering coefficients using the system constant and inverse square distance relationship in the radar equations. .
[0075] Then, orthorectification is performed using ground control points and a digital elevation model to eliminate geometric distortions caused by terrain undulations. The number of ground control points is no less than four per square kilometer, evenly distributed, with an accuracy better than 1 meter; the spatial resolution of the digital elevation model is no less than 5 meters, and the elevation accuracy is better than 0.3 meters. Orthorectification uses a rational function model or a rigorous orbital model, and the resampling method employs cubic convolution interpolation to ensure that the geometric accuracy error is less than a pixel.
[0076] For optical images, atmospheric effects correction is performed using either the dark target subtraction model or the fast atmospheric correction model to output the true surface reflectance. The dark target subtraction model assumes the presence of completely absorbing dark targets in the image (such as deep water bodies or densely shadowed areas), whose apparent reflectance is contributed only by atmospheric path radiation, thus inferring atmospheric correction parameters; the fast atmospheric correction model, based on lookup tables and empirical formulas, is suitable for large-scale rapid processing.
[0077] Finally, for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery, Lee filtering or Gamma MAP filtering is used to suppress speckle noise, and topographic radiometric correction is performed to eliminate the influence of slope on backscattering intensity. The Lee filter window size is set to 7×7 pixels, and the Gamma MAP filter shape parameter is set to 3.5. Topographic radiometric correction uses a local incident angle model to normalize the backscattering coefficients to a reference incident angle, typically 40 degrees. After the above processing, all images are uniformly resampled to a 2-meter spatial resolution and projected onto a unified coordinate system to form a standardized image dataset.
[0078] In step S3, a multidimensional feature tensor fusing optical and microwave features is constructed based on the standardized image dataset. Specifically, this step involves extracting the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAD), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVEI), and Bare Soil Index from the corrected visible and near-infrared images; extracting the Water Stress Index and Mineral Index from the shortwave infrared images; extracting the HH polarization backscattering coefficient, HV polarization backscattering coefficient, polarization ratio, and coherence features from the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images; and simultaneously extracting slope, aspect, curvature, and relative elevation difference from the digital elevation model.
[0079] Specifically, the normalized vegetation index is , For near-infrared reflectivity, Reflectance in the red light band; soil brightness adjustment factor introduced into the soil-adjusted vegetation index. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is L is set to 0.5; the enhanced vegetation index uses a three-band combination, and the normalized difference vegetation index is [value missing]. , The blue light band reflectance is used; the bare soil index uses the short-wave infrared band reflectance. Near-infrared band reflectivity Ratio. The water stress index is The mineral index uses a combination of sensitive bands for iron oxides and clay minerals, such as... and . , These are two different shortwave infrared bands. In synthetic aperture radar characteristics, the polarization ratio is... , For the same polarization mode of synthetic aperture radar, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) uses cross-polarization. Coherence characteristics are obtained through complex cross-correlation calculations of two radar images, reflecting the stability of the surface structure. Topographic features are calculated using the first and second derivatives of a digital elevation model: slope is the elevation gradient modulus, aspect is the gradient direction angle, curvature is the elevation Laplacian operator, and relative elevation difference is the difference between the current pixel and the neighborhood mean.
[0080] All features are strictly aligned according to pixel position, forming a 12-dimensional feature vector for each pixel, thus constituting a complete multidimensional feature tensor. This multidimensional feature tensor is stored in the form of a three-dimensional array with dimensions of height × width × 12. Each channel corresponds to one feature, and the data type is a 32-bit floating-point number.
[0081] In step S4, the multidimensional feature tensor is input into a pre-trained farmland topsoil change detection model, which outputs a binary segmentation mask of the soil stripping area. This farmland topsoil change detection model is a deep convolutional neural network based on an encoder-decoder architecture.
[0082] The encoder consists of five downsampling stages, each containing two convolutional layers, a batch normalization layer, and a modified linear unit activation function. Downsampling is achieved through max pooling. The decoder consists of four upsampling stages, each restoring the feature map size through transposed convolution and concatenating it with the feature map of the corresponding layer in the encoder. A convolutional layer and a sigmoid activation function are placed at the end of the network to output a soil stripping probability map of the same size as the input image. The farmland topsoil change detection model takes a twelve-channel multidimensional feature tensor as input and outputs a single-channel probability map with a value range of 0 to 1.
[0083] During the training phase, supervised learning is performed using a sample set labeled with real soil stripping boundaries. The loss function is a weighted sum of weighted binary cross-entropy and Dice loss, with the weight coefficients dynamically adjusted based on the ratio of positive to negative samples. (Weighted binary cross-entropy) Defined as:
[0084] ;
[0085] For real labels, To predict probabilities, and The weights of the positive and negative samples are respectively, satisfying... and This represents the number of positive and negative samples. For the sample Total. Dice loss. Defined as:
[0086] ;
[0087] This is a smoothing factor with a value of 1.
[0088] The total loss function is The value was set to 0.7. The model was trained using the Adam optimizer with an initial learning rate of 0.001, a batch size of 8, and 150 training epochs. During training, data augmentation strategies were employed to improve model robustness, including random rotation (angle range -30 degrees to +30 degrees), horizontal flipping (probability 0.5), spectral perturbation (Gaussian noise added to reflectance in each band, standard deviation 0.02), and synthetic aperture radar speckle simulation (generated through a multiplicative noise model). Simultaneously, a transfer learning mechanism was introduced, using weights pre-trained on a large-scale land use change dataset to initialize the encoder parameters, with only the decoder and the final classification layer being fine-tuned.
[0089] After training, the multidimensional feature tensor is input into the model, outputting a soil stripping probability map. This soil stripping probability map is then compared to a preset threshold of 0.5: if the probability value of a pixel is greater than or equal to the preset threshold, it is marked as a stripped region and assigned a value of 1; otherwise, it is marked as a non-stripped region and assigned a value of 0. Morphological closing operations (using a 5×5 circular kernel as the structuring element) and connected component analysis are performed on the resulting binary image to remove isolated regions with an area less than 100 square meters, retaining continuous stripped regions with areas consistent with engineering realities, forming the final binary segmentation mask.
[0090] In step S5, based on the binary segmentation mask and combined with digital elevation model data, the volume change of the stripping area is calculated, and converted into the soil stripping volume according to the preset average topsoil thickness parameter. The specific implementation of this step is as follows: Obtain digital elevation model data for two periods before and after the soil stripping operation, with a spatial resolution of not less than 2 meters and an elevation accuracy better than 0.5 meters; superimpose the binary segmentation mask onto the two digital elevation models respectively, and extract the elevation values of all pixels within the stripping area; calculate the average elevation difference of the stripping area before and after the operation, denoted as... .like If the value is positive, it indicates that fill work has occurred and is not included in the stripping work volume; if... A value of 0 indicates no elevation change; if If the value is negative, its absolute value is taken as the effective peeling depth.
[0091] The effective stripping depth is multiplied by the total area of the stripped region to obtain the stripped soil volume. If there are local elevation anomalies in the stripped region, median filtering is used to smooth the elevation data before calculation, with a filtering window of 3×3 pixels. Subsequently, the average thickness of the topsoil layer is set to 30 cm, and the parameter can be adjusted according to the regional soil survey data, with an adjustment range of 20 cm to 40 cm. When the calculated effective stripping depth is less than the preset thickness, the actual stripping depth is used; when the effective stripping depth is greater than or equal to the preset thickness, the preset thickness is used as the calculation benchmark.
[0092] The final soil stripping volume equals the stripped area multiplied by the stripping depth used for calculation, in cubic meters. Furthermore, the method includes quantifying the uncertainty of the estimation results: constructing a confidence interval for the volume estimate based on the consistency of prediction results from multi-temporal imagery (e.g., the intersection-over-union ratio of two independent predictions), the signal-to-noise ratio of the feature tensor (the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean of each feature channel), and the elevation error of the digital elevation model (accuracy indicators provided by the supplier). When the confidence level falls below 90%, a manual review process is triggered, prompting a need for correction based on on-site verification data.
[0093] The above-described steps constitute a complete closed-loop technical process, achieving end-to-end automated processing from raw remote sensing data to engineering quantity estimation results. Throughout the process, multi-source data fusion overcomes the limitations of single sensors, deep learning models improve boundary recognition accuracy, elevation models and physical constraints ensure the interpretability of engineering quantities, and uncertainty quantification mechanisms enhance the reliability of the results. This method does not rely on manual visual interpretation and is suitable for large-scale, high-frequency farmland protection monitoring tasks.
[0094] At the system level, the hardware platform upon which this invention relies includes a high-performance computing server, a remote sensing data receiving station, a geographic information system workstation, and a network storage device. The high-performance computing server is equipped with multiple graphics processors for running deep learning models; the remote sensing data receiving station is responsible for receiving and preprocessing satellite downlink data; the geographic information system workstation is used for feature extraction and spatial analysis; and the network storage device uses a distributed file system to store raw images, intermediate products, and final results.
[0095] The software environment includes a remote sensing image processing library, a deep learning framework, geospatial analysis tools, and a database management system. All modules communicate through standardized interfaces, supporting both batch processing and real-time stream processing modes. The system features logging, task scheduling, and error recovery mechanisms to ensure stable operation over extended periods.
[0096] In summary, this embodiment fully discloses the technical solution of the present invention, covering all aspects from data acquisition, preprocessing, feature construction, model reasoning to engineering quantity calculation and result verification. It meets the requirements of full disclosure under the Patent Law and does not introduce any vague, subjective or selective expressions. All technical details are deterministic descriptions, which comply with the patent drafting specifications.
[0097] It should be noted that, in this document, relational terms such as "first" and "second" are used only to distinguish one entity or operation from another, and do not necessarily require or imply any such actual relationship or order between these entities or operations. Furthermore, the terms "comprising," "including," or any other variations thereof are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements includes not only those elements but also other elements not expressly listed, or elements inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.
[0098] Although embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.
Claims
1. A method for estimating the amount of topsoil stripping in cultivated land based on image data processing, characterized in that, include: Acquire multi-source remote sensing image data of the target area, including visible light band images, near-infrared band images, short-wave infrared band images, and synthetic aperture radar images; Radiometric, geometric, and atmospheric corrections are performed on the multi-source remote sensing image data to generate a standardized image dataset. Based on the standardized image dataset, a multidimensional feature tensor that integrates optical and microwave features is constructed. The multidimensional feature tensor includes spectral reflectance features, texture features, polarization scattering features, and terrain elevation features. The multidimensional feature tensor is input into a pre-trained farmland topsoil change detection model, and a binary segmentation mask of the soil stripping area is output. Based on the binary segmentation mask and combined with digital elevation model data, the volume change of the stripping area is calculated, and the volume is converted into soil stripping volume according to the preset average thickness parameter of the topsoil layer. The volume change of the stripped region is calculated as follows: Obtain digital elevation model data for two phases, before and after the soil stripping operation; The binary segmentation mask is superimposed on the digital elevation models of the two phases respectively, and the elevation values of all pixels in the stripped area are extracted. Calculate the average elevation difference of the stripping area before and after the operation, denoted as . ; like A positive value indicates that fill work has occurred and is not included in the stripping work volume; if ΔH is 0, it indicates that there is no elevation change; if If the value is negative, its absolute value is taken as the effective peeling depth; Multiply the effective stripping depth by the total area of the stripping region to obtain the stripped soil volume; If there are local elevation anomalies in the stripped area, the elevation data should be smoothed using median filtering before calculation. The soil stripping work volume, calculated based on the preset average topsoil thickness parameter, includes: Set the average thickness of the topsoil layer and adjust it based on regional soil survey data; When the calculated effective peeling depth is less than the preset thickness, the actual peeling depth shall prevail. When the effective peeling depth is greater than or equal to the preset thickness, the preset thickness is used as the calculation benchmark. The final soil stripping volume is equal to the stripping area multiplied by the stripping depth used for calculation, in cubic meters.
2. The method for estimating the amount of topsoil stripping in cultivated land based on image data processing according to claim 1, characterized in that, The acquisition of multi-source remote sensing image data of the target area includes: Visible light, near-infrared and short-wave infrared images of the target area before and after soil stripping operations were acquired using an optical remote sensing satellite platform. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite platforms acquire single-polarization or dual-polarization SAR images of the target area within the same time window.
3. The method for estimating the amount of topsoil stripping in cultivated land based on image data processing according to claim 2, characterized in that, The step of performing radiometric, geometric, and atmospheric corrections on the multi-source remote sensing image data to generate a standardized image dataset includes: The original digital quantization values are converted into apparent reflectivity or backscattering coefficients using absolute radiometric calibration coefficients; Orthorectification is performed using ground control points and digital elevation models to eliminate geometric distortions caused by terrain undulations; For optical images, atmospheric effects are corrected using a dark target subtraction model or a fast atmospheric correction model to output the true surface reflectance. For synthetic aperture radar imagery, Lee filtering or Gamma MAP filtering is used to suppress speckle noise, and topographic radiometric correction is performed to eliminate the influence of slope on backscatter intensity.
4. The method for estimating the amount of topsoil stripping in cultivated land based on image data processing according to claim 3, characterized in that, The construction of the multidimensional feature tensor that integrates optical and microwave features includes: Normalized vegetation index, soil-adjusted vegetation index, enhanced vegetation index, and bare soil index were extracted from corrected visible and near-infrared images. Moisture stress index and mineral index were extracted from shortwave infrared images; Extract HH polarization backscattering coefficient, HV polarization backscattering coefficient, polarization ratio and coherence characteristics from synthetic aperture radar images; Extract slope, aspect, curvature, and relative elevation difference from the digital elevation model; Align all the above features according to their pixel positions to form a feature vector corresponding to each pixel, thus forming a complete multidimensional feature tensor.
5. The method for estimating the amount of topsoil stripping in cultivated land based on image data processing according to claim 4, characterized in that, The farmland topsoil change detection model is a deep convolutional neural network based on an encoder-decoder architecture. Its encoder part consists of 5 downsampling stages, each stage containing 2 convolutional layers, a batch normalization layer and a modified linear unit activation function. Downsampling is achieved through max pooling. The decoder consists of four upsampling stages. Each stage restores the feature map size through transposed convolution and performs channel concatenation with the feature map of the corresponding layer of the encoder. A convolutional layer and a sigmoid activation function are set at the end of the network to output a soil stripping probability map of the same size as the input image; The cultivated land topsoil change detection model uses a sample set labeled with real soil stripping boundaries for supervised learning during the training phase. The loss function is a weighted sum of weighted binary cross-entropy and Dice loss, and the weight coefficients are dynamically adjusted according to the ratio of positive and negative samples.
6. The method for estimating the amount of topsoil stripping in cultivated land based on image data processing according to claim 5, characterized in that, The binary segmentation mask for the output soil stripping region includes: The soil stripping probability map output by the farmland topsoil change detection model is compared with a preset threshold. When the probability value of a pixel is greater than or equal to the preset threshold, it is marked as a stripped region and assigned a value of 1; otherwise, it is marked as a non-stripped region and assigned a value of 0. Morphological closing operations and connected component analysis are performed on the obtained binary image to remove isolated regions with an area of less than 100 square meters, and to retain continuous stripped regions with an area that conforms to the actual engineering requirements, thus forming the final binary segmentation mask.
7. The method for estimating the amount of topsoil stripping in cultivated land based on image data processing according to claim 6, characterized in that, During the training process of the farmland topsoil change detection model, data augmentation strategies are used to improve the robustness of the model. Data augmentation includes random rotation, horizontal flipping, spectral perturbation, and synthetic aperture radar speckle simulation. Simultaneously, a transfer learning mechanism is introduced, which uses weights pre-trained on a large-scale land use change dataset to initialize some parameters of the encoder, and only fine-tunes the decoder part and the final classification layer.
8. The method for estimating the amount of topsoil stripping in cultivated land based on image data processing according to claim 7, characterized in that, The method further includes quantifying the uncertainty of the estimation results, specifically including: Based on the consistency of prediction results from multi-temporal images, the signal-to-noise ratio of feature tensors, and the elevation error of digital elevation models, confidence intervals for engineering quantity estimation are constructed. When the confidence level is lower than the specified value, a manual review process is triggered, prompting that corrections need to be made based on on-site verification data.