Learning Multi-Granularity Neural Network Encoding Image Classification Using DCNNs for Easter Africa Community Countries

Remote sensing scene classification is a fundamental responsibility of earth observation, aiming at identifying information granular for land cover classification. The multi-granular land use for multi-source remotely sensed image categories is now a principal task in remote sensing data augmentation and data selection. Understanding image representations are meaningful for the scene classification task. Training deep learning model-based approaches has to do with scene classification and brings about fantastic achievement. At the same time, these high-level approaches are computationally expensive and time–consuming. This paper introduces multi-granularity Neural Network Encoding architecture base on InceptionV3, InceptionReseNetV2, VGG16, and DenseNet201 architecture into remote sensing scene classification. To improve performance and to solve intra-class variation for multi-class scene issues remote sensing dataset. By using pre-trained CNN, activation function and ensemble learning have been adopting. InceptionV3 and VGG16 are used to extract features. InceptionResNetV2 use for fine-tuning, which consists of unfreezing the entre model and retraining the new data with a lower learning rate. The proposed fine-tune whole pre-trained model produces better results of test set up to 97.84 % than features extracted by InceptionResNetV2. Also, we use DCNNs ensemble average and weighted average to achieve better outcomes for 97.36% and 99.10%. In our experiments, we attempted to fine-tune the deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) training method for remote sensing scene classification on two public datasets UCM, SIRI-WHU, and one dataset I collected through the google earth engine from East Africa Community Countries (EACC) within nine classes within total 2112 labeled images. The results indicate that our proposed fine-tuning of the pre-trained model with few epochs and less computational time increases accuracy.