Classifying drivers of deforestation by using the deep learning based poly-highway forest convolution network

Abstract

The worldwide deforestation rate worsens year after year, ultimately resulting in a variety of severe implications for both mankind and the environment. In order to track the success of forest preservation activities, it is crucial to establish a reliable forest monitoring system. Changes in forest status are extremely difficult to manually annotate due to the tiny size and subtlety of the borders involved, particularly in regions abutting residential areas. Previous forest monitoring systems failed because they relied on low-resolution satellite images and drone-based data, both of which have inherent limitations. Most government organizations still use manual annotation, which is a slow, laborious, and costly way to keep tabs on data. The purpose of this research is to find a solution to these problems by building a poly-highway forest convolution network using deep learning to automatically detect forest borders so that changes over time may be monitored. Here initially the data was curated using the dynamic decomposed kalman filter. Then the data can be augmented. Afterward the augmented image features can be fused using the multimodal discriminant centroid feature clustering. Then the selected area can be segmented using the iterative initial seeded algorithm (IISA). Finally, the level and the driver of deforestation can be classified using the poly-highway forest convolution network (PHFCN). The whole experimentation was carried out in a dataset of 6048 Landsat-8 satellite sub-images under MATLAB environment. From the result obtained the suggested methodology express satisfied performance than other existing mechanisms.