Journal of East China Normal University(Natural Science) ›› 2023, Vol. 2023 ›› Issue (2): 82-94.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-5641.2023.02.010

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A landscape simulation modeling method based on remote sensing images

Zehua WANG1, Yan GAO1,*(), Mingang CHEN2   

  1. 1. School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
    2. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Computer Software Testing and Evaluating, Shanghai 201112, China
  • Received:2022-03-29 Online:2023-03-25 Published:2023-03-23
  • Contact: Yan GAO E-mail:ygao@cs.ecnu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Traditional virtual terrain modeling commonly uses a procedural generation method based on manual design, which cannot be used for competent simulation modeling tasks that need to restore real environments, such as in military applications. In this paper, we proposed a landscape simulation modeling method based on remote sensing images. The core of our proposed method is a landscape blended texture generation network (LBTG-Net); this method uses a blended texture generator (BTG) to generate landscape blended textures with the supervision of a style discriminator (SD) and multi-stage classification loss. Then, we procedurally build the complete virtual environment based on the blended texture generated by LBTG-Net. Our method has two main features: (1) accurate land-cover classification ability of remote sensing image inputs; and (2) high quality landscape blended texture outputs to guarantee virtual landscape modeling quality. We used multispectral image data from the Sentinel-2 satellite as the experimental dataset. The experimental results showed that our method offered high performance under mainstream land-cover classification evaluating indicators and can accurately reproduce the environmental distribution of input remote sensing images while completing high-quality virtual terrain simulation modeling.

Key words: landscape simulation modeling, generative adversarial networks, landscape blended texture

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