Xi Kan1, Yonghong Zhang2,*, Linglong Zhu2, Liming Xiao2, Jiangeng Wang3, Wei Tian4, Haowen Tan5
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.57, No.1, pp. 49-68, 2018, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2018.02376
Abstract Snow cover plays an important role in meteorological and hydrological researches. However, the accuracies of currently available snow cover products are significantly lower in mountainous areas than in plains, due to the serious snow/cloud confusion problem caused by high altitude and complex topography. Aiming at this problem, an improved snow cover mapping approach for mountainous areas was proposed and applied in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. In this work, a deep learning framework named Stacked Denoising Auto-Encoders (SDAE) was employed to fuse the MODIS multispectral images and various geographic datasets, which are then classified into three categories: Snow,… More >