Automatic Crater Detection by Training Random Forest Classifiers with Legacy Crater Map and Spatial Structural Information Derived from Digital Terrain Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4872407 |
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| Authors | Yan-Wen Wang (0000-0001-8070-2122, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research), Cheng-Zhi Qin (0000-0002-5910-9807, Nanjing Normal University), Wei-Ming Cheng (0000-0003-1580-4979, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research), A-Xing Zhu (0000-0002-5725-0460, Nanjing Normal University), Yu-Jing Wang, Yujing Wang (0000-0001-8119-5142, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research), Liang-Jun Zhu (0000-0001-6181-4313, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1328-1349 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the American Association of Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2469-4452 • E-ISSN: 2469-4460 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/24694452.2021.1960473 |
| OpenAlex | W3211329067 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 49 |
Detection of craters is important not only for planetary research but also for engineering applications. Although the existing crater detection approaches (CDAs) based on terrain analysis consider the topographic information of craters, they do not take into account the spatial structural information of real craters. In this article, we propose an automatic crater detection approach by training random forest classifiers with data from legacy crater map and spatial structural information of craters derived from digital terrain analysis. In the proposed two-stage approach, first, the cells in a legacy crater map are used as samples to train the random forest classifier at a cell level based on multiscale landform element information. This trained classifier is then applied to identify crater candidates in the areas of interest. Second, an object-level random forest classifier is trained with radial elevation profiles of craters and is subsequently applied to evaluate whether each crater candidate is real. A case study using the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter crater map and lunar digital elevation model with 500-m resolution showed that the proposed approach performs better than AutoCrat (a representative CDA), and can mine the implicit expert knowledge on the spatial structures of real craters from legacy crater maps. The proposed approach could be extended to extract other geomorphologic types in similar application situations
Altimeter · Astrobiology · Cartography · Digital elevation model · Geography · Geomorphology · Impact crater · Landform · Random forest · Remote sensing · Terrain · Computer Science · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Marine and environmental studies · Planetary Science and Exploration · Artificial Intelligence · Geology
| Highly cited | No |
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