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| DOI | 10.1002/rse2.382 |
| Using photographs and deep neural networks to understand flowering phenology and diversity in mountain meadows | |
| 发表日期 | 2024 |
| EISSN | 2056-3485 |
| 英文摘要 | Mountain meadows are an essential part of the alpine-subalpine ecosystem; they provide ecosystem services like pollination and are home to diverse plant communities. Changes in climate affect meadow ecology on multiple levels, for example, by altering growing season dynamics. Tracking the effects of climate change on meadow diversity through the impacts on individual species and overall growing season dynamics is critical to conservation efforts. Here, we explore how to combine crowd-sourced camera images with machine learning to quantify flowering species richness across a range of elevations in alpine meadows located in Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington, USA. We employed three machine-learning techniques (Mask R-CNN, RetinaNet and YOLOv5) to detect wildflower species in images taken during two flowering seasons. We demonstrate that deep learning techniques can detect multiple species, providing information on flowering richness in photographed meadows. The results indicate higher richness just above the tree line for most of the species, which is comparable with patterns found using field studies. We found that the two-stage detector Mask R-CNN was more accurate than single-stage detectors like RetinaNet and YOLO, with the Mask R-CNN network performing best overall with mean average precision (mAP) of 0.67 followed by RetinaNet (0.5) and YOLO (0.4). We found that across the methods using anchor box variations in multiples of 16 led to enhanced accuracy. We also show that detection is possible even when pictures are interspersed with complex backgrounds and are not in focus. We found differential detection rates depending on species abundance, with additional challenges related to similarity in flower characteristics, labeling errors and occlusion issues. Despite these potential biases and limitations in capturing flowering abundance and location-specific quantification, accuracy was notable considering the complexity of flower types and picture angles in this dataset. We, therefore, expect that this approach can be used to address many ecological questions that benefit from automated flower detection, including studies of flowering phenology and floral resources, and that this approach can, therefore, complement a wide range of ecological approaches (e.g., field observations, experiments, community science, etc.). In all, our study suggests that ecological metrics like floral richness can be efficiently monitored by combining machine learning with easily accessible publicly curated datasets (e.g., Flickr, iNaturalist). We demonstrate that deep learning techniques can detect, identify, and count wildflowers in photographs, and thereby provide detailed information on flowering occurrences in complex systems (like wildflower meadows). image |
| 英文关键词 | Alpine wildflowers; climate change; convolutional neural net; phenology |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Remote Sensing |
| WOS类目 | Ecology ; Remote Sensing |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001160532700001 |
| 来源期刊 | REMOTE SENSING IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/288982 |
| 作者单位 | University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | . Using photographs and deep neural networks to understand flowering phenology and diversity in mountain meadows[J],2024. |
| APA | (2024).Using photographs and deep neural networks to understand flowering phenology and diversity in mountain meadows.REMOTE SENSING IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION. |
| MLA | "Using photographs and deep neural networks to understand flowering phenology and diversity in mountain meadows".REMOTE SENSING IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION (2024). |
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