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Record W4392084133 · doi:10.32920/25266730.v1

Detection of Green Roofs through Satellite Imagery Using Faster R-CNN

2024· preprint· en· W4392084133 on OpenAlexaffabout
Luzalen Marcos

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicUrban Heat Island Mitigation
Canadian institutionsToronto Metropolitan University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRemote sensingSatellite imagerySatelliteComputer scienceEnvironmental scienceGeographyEngineeringAerospace engineering

Abstract

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With the threat of global warming, there is a need to implement sustainable solutions. Due to urbanization, forests and other natural resources that could have helped reduce carbon emissions are being depleted. Thus, cities, like Toronto, experience urban heat island effects, food shortages and increased carbon emissions. To help solve this, Green Roofs are encouraged to be implemented in Toronto to help reduce the mentioned issues. In addition, green roofs are difficult to maintain and COVID-19 making it more difficult for urban farmers to physically go and check the green roofs. Hence, this study proposes to use deep learning in detecting green roofs from satellite imagery. The approach uses NDVI values and Toronto Building data to obtain green roof locations. From here, satellite images were taken from map services such as Google Earth Pro and ArcGIS Pro. The images were preprocessed and fed into Faster R-CNN model to detect green roofs. Since this is a first step in creating a system that can monitor the Green Roof Food-Energy-Water nexus, in the future, the behaviour of Faster R-CNN with Toronto Roof Satellite Images was observed. It was shown that the Faster R-CNN provided a higher validation accuracy and higher confidence score than the Fast R-CNN. Additionally, it is suggested that the current Faster R-CNN model needs to be improved, to precisely detect green roofs in different image resolutions and dimensions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.042
Threshold uncertainty score0.084

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.252
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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