Satellite Imagery Classification with Deep Learning : A Survey

Object detection from satellite images has been a challenging problem for many years. With the development of effective deep learning algorithms and advancement in hardware systems, higher accuracies have been achieved in the detection of various objects from very high-resolution satellite images. In the past decades satellite imagery has been used successfully for weather forecasting, geographical and geological applications. Low resolution satellite images are sufficient for these sorts of applications. But the technological developments in the field of satellite imaging provide high resolution sensors which expands its field of application. Thus, the High-Resolution Satellite Imagery (HRSI) proved to be a suitable alternative to aerial photogrammetric data to provide a new data source for object detection. Since the traffic rates in developing countries are enormously increasing, vehicle detection from satellite data will be a better choice for automating such systems. In this research, a different technique for vehicle detection from the images obtained from high resolution sensors is reviewed. This review presents the recent progress in the field of object detection from satellite imagery using deep learning.