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Satellite Imagery-Based Cloud Classification Using Deep Learning
Rukhsar Yousaf Hafiz Zia Rehman Khurram Jadoon Zeashan H. Khan Adnan Fazil Zahid Mahmood Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui
Rukhsar Yousaf
Hafiz Zia Rehman
Khurram Jadoon
Zeashan H. Khan
Adnan Fazil
Zahid Mahmood
Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui
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2023-12-01
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A significant amount of satellite imaging data is now easily available due to the continued development of remote sensing (RS) technology. Enabling the successful application of RS in real-world settings requires efficient and scalable solutions to extend their use in multidisciplinary areas. The goal of quick analysis and precise classification in Remote Sensing Imaging (RSI) is often accomplished by utilizing approaches based on deep Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs). This research offers a unique snapshot-based residual network (SnapResNet) that consists of fully connected layers (FC-1024), batch normalization (BN), L2 regularization, dropout layers, dense layer, and data augmentation. Architectural changes overcome the inter-class similarity problem while data augmentation resolves the problem of imbalanced classes. Moreover, the snapshot ensemble technique is utilized to prevent over-fitting, thereby further improving the network’s performance. The proposed SnapResNet152 model employs the most challenging Large-Scale Cloud Images Dataset for Meteorology Research (LSCIDMR), having 10 classes with thousands of high-resolution images and classifying them into respective classes. The developed model outperforms the existing deep learning-based algorithms (e.g., AlexNet, VGG-19, ResNet101, and EfficientNet) and achieves an overall accuracy of 97.25%.