Thales Sehn Körting

Several authors rely on transfer learning from pretrained models, arguing that using well-known datasets, which are available on the internet (e.g. ImageNet) their model will be able to handle a specific problem with a reduced training step. In Remote Sensing this perspective is also becoming a trend when using Deep Learning techniques to classify Remote Sensing datasets. In my opinion, the datasets used for pretrain are very different from Remote Sensing targets, mainly in two aspects: spatial resolution: a sensor can be ultra high spatial resolution (50cm for example) or very low resolution (2km for a single pixel), and the edges in all these images are different spectral resolution: the datasets found on the internet are composed by color pictures, obtained mainly by phone cameras, which are composed by 3 channels (red, green and blue). In Remote Sensing we can have several spectral channels, such as yellow or red-edge bands (available in WorldView-2), or infra-red channels, available in most of the sat