QRS-Trs: Style Transfer-Based Image-to-Image Translation for Carbon Stock Estimation in Quantitative Remote Sensing

IF 3.4 3区计算机科学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

IEEE Access Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3554045

Zhenyu Yu;Jinnian Wang;Hanqing Chen;Mohd Yamani Idna Idris

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Abstract

Forests serve as vital carbon reservoirs, reducing atmospheric CO2 and mitigating climate change. Monitoring carbon stocks typically combines ground-based data with satellite remote sensing, yet accuracy remains a challenge. This study analyzes Huize County, China, using GF-1 WFV and Landsat TM images and introduces the Quantitative Remote Sensing Transformer (QRS-Trs), which leverages style transfer and attention mechanisms to enhance carbon stock estimation as an image-to-image translation task. QRS-Trs demonstrates three advantages: 1) Swin-Pix2Pix effectively reduces inter-domain discrepancies caused by sensor and lighting variations while excelling in de-clouding, outperforming Pix2Pix. 2) It incorporates a median filter to eliminate anomalies and a mask module to exclude non-target areas, achieving MAE =16.29 Mg/ha, RMSE =29.38 Mg/ha,

$R^{2} =0.71$

, and SSIM =0.75. 3) Applied to multi-year data, from 2005 to 2020, 44.04% of the area showed increased carbon stock, 10.22% decreased, and 45.74% remained unchanged. While QRS-Trs performs well, its generalization to diverse ecological conditions depends on high-quality training data. Nevertheless, this study provides a robust approach for high-resolution carbon stock estimation, contributing to improved forest carbon sink management.

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IEEE Access COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMSENGIN-ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

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9.80

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7.70%

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6673

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6 weeks

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