Precision Meets Speed: An Attention Encoder-Decoder Network for Deforestation Segmentation

Deforestation remains a critical global environmental concern, requiring effective monitoring approaches. This letter presents a novel attention-powered encoder-decoder neural network designed to address the key challenges in deforestation mapping, including scale heterogeneity, temporal dynamics, a...

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Vydáno v:IEEE geoscience and remote sensing letters Ročník 22; s. 1 - 5
Hlavní autoři: Benvenuto, Giovana A., Negri, Rogerio G., Colnago, Marilaine, Frery, Alejandro C., Casaca, Wallace
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Piscataway IEEE 2025
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
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Accuracy
Attention mechanisms
Coders
Computational efficiency
Computer applications
Computer architecture
Computing costs
Deep learning
Deforestation
Environmental perception
Feature extraction
Heterogeneity
Monitoring
Neural networks
Remote sensing
remote sensing (RS)
Training
ISSN:1545-598X, 1558-0571
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Shrnutí:Deforestation remains a critical global environmental concern, requiring effective monitoring approaches. This letter presents a novel attention-powered encoder-decoder neural network designed to address the key challenges in deforestation mapping, including scale heterogeneity, temporal dynamics, and computational efficiency. The proposed framework integrates a modified YOLOv8 backbone, spatial attention (SA) mechanisms, and a conjugated Dice-Focal loss function to enhance sensitivity to small- and large-scale deforestation patterns in temporal remote sensing (RS) data. An extensive battery of tests was conducted using two datasets from the Amazon region, exploring both single-image and image-pair inputs under varying contextual and class balance conditions. The results attest to substantial improvements in accuracy and computational efficiency compared to 13 deep learning (DL) methods, establishing the proposed model as effective in deforestation monitoring scenarios, where accuracy, scalability, and computational cost are simultaneously critical.
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ISSN:1545-598X
1558-0571
DOI:10.1109/LGRS.2025.3590585