Semantic segmentation of deforestation on satellite images in the kharkiv region

Abstract

Deforestation is a crucial problem nowadays. It can cause climate change, soil erosion, flooding, and increase greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. And such activity as illegal forest logging is one of the main reasons for deforestation. The process of finding these clearcuts consists of downloading images from satellite, preprocessing the bands, image analysis and labeling by a person. So there is a lot of manual routine work that can be automated using Deep Learning.