Country-wide high-resolution vegetation height mapping with Sentinel-2
Sentinel-2 multi-spectral images collected over periods of several months were used to estimate vegetation height for Gabon and Switzerland. A deep convolutional neural network (CNN) was trained to extract suitable spectral and textural features from reflectance images and to regress per-pixel vegetation height. In Gabon, reference heights for training and validation were derived from airborne LiDAR measurements. In Switzerland, reference heights were taken from an existing canopy height model derived via photogrammetric surface reconstruction. The resulting maps have a mean absolute error (MAE) of 1.7 m in Switzerland and 4.3 m in Gabon (a root mean square error (RMSE) of 3.4 m and 5.6 m, respectively), and correctly estimate vegetation heights up to >50 m. They also show good qualitative agreement with existing vegetation height maps. Our work demonstrates that, given a moderate amount of reference data (i.e., 2000 km$^2$ in Gabon and $\approx$5800 km$^2$ in Switzerland), high-resolution vegetation height maps with 10 m ground sampling distance (GSD) can be derived at country scale from Sentinel-2 imagery.
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