Taylor Shepherd Golden Optimization-Enabled ResUNet for Forest Change Detection Using Satellite Images

The pivotal task of remote sensing image (RSI) processing change detection (CD) highly aims to accurately detect changes in land cover based on multi-temporal images. With the advent of deep learning, technology has delivered remarkable results in the last years in the detection of variations in forest land cover data. Some of the conventional CD techniques are weak and are highly susceptible to errors and can result even in inaccurate outcomes. Thus, certain techniques are not desirable for real-time CD applications. To abridge this gap, this research introduces an innovative work for forest CD utilizing the proposed Taylor Shepherd Golden Optimization_ResUNet (TSGO_ResUNet) and Fuzzy Neural network (Fuzzy NN) for segment mapping. Here, the segmentation process is accomplished using ResUNet to determine the exact boundary or shape of each object for every pixel in the image. Furthermore, TSGO is achieved by consolidating Taylor Shuffled Shepherd Optimization (TSSO) with Golden Search Optimization (GSO). In addition, the devised TSGO_ResUNet + Fuzzy NN has gained maximum accuracy and kappa coefficient of 0.952 and 0.785, and minimum error rate of 0.051.