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A 1.5 m resolution land cover map of Southern China created with Superpixel U-Net.

Xiaomei Hu, Wenkai Li, Zhenong Jin, Asadilla Yusup, Shihao Zhu, Ziyan Yang, Shengli Tao

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Xiaomei HuInstitute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and State Key Laboratory of Vegetation Structure, Function and Construction (VegLab), Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
Wenkai LiSchool of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China.
Zhenong JinInstitute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and State Key Laboratory of Vegetation Structure, Function and Construction (VegLab), Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
Asadilla YusupInstitute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and State Key Laboratory of Vegetation Structure, Function and Construction (VegLab), Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
Shihao ZhuSchool of Geological Engineering, Qinghai University, Xining, 810016, China.
Ziyan YangInstitute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and State Key Laboratory of Vegetation Structure, Function and Construction (VegLab), Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
Shengli TaoInstitute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and State Key Laboratory of Vegetation Structure, Function and Construction (VegLab), Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China. sltao@pku.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2145-4736

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Accurate land cover mapping is essential for supporting ecological protection and resource management. However, in regions with complex and fragmented landscapes, such as Southern China (SC), existing medium- and high-resolution land cover products exhibit limited accuracy. To address this challenge, we developed Superpixel_U-Net, a multi-head segmentation algorithm that combines semantic segmentation and superpixel segmentation, to generate a 1.5 m land cover map for SC (the SCLC map). Towards this purpose, we acquired 6.1 TB very-high-resolution (VHR) ESRI World imagery and manually annotated 43,000 VHR images into eight land cover classes. Vegetation and water indices derived from Sentinel-2 imagery were used as auxiliary inputs to enrich spectral features. The resulting SCLC map achieved Pixel Accuracy (PA) values of 88.83% and 90.66% in the pixel-level and patch-level validations respectively, and showed a strong agreement with official survey reports (R

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