WETLAND CLASSIFICATION WITH SWIN TRANSFORMER USING SENTINEL-1 AND SENTINEL-2 DATA

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown promising results in classifying complex remote sensing scenery, particularly in the classification of wetlands. State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing ( NLP) algorithms, on the other hand, are transformers. In this paper, we illustrate the effectiveness of the cutting-edge Swin Transformer for the classification of complex wetlands in New Brunswick, Canada. The precision of the proposed transformer is 0.66, 0.71, 0.75, 0.78, 0.82, 0.83, 0.84, 0.90, 0.90, 0.95, and 0.98 for the recognition of shrub, fen, forested wetland, crop, bog, freshwater marsh, coastal marsh, aquatic bed, grass, urban, and water, respectively. Based on the results, with a relatively high level of overall accuracy of slightly less than 80%, the proposed Swin Transformer is highly capable of complex wetland classification.