Precise City-Scale Urban Water Body Semantic Segmentation and Open-Source Sampleset Construction Based on Very High-Resolution Remote Sensing: A Case Study in Chengdu

Addressing the challenges related to urban water bodies is essential for advancing urban planning and development. Therefore, obtaining precise and timely information regarding urban water bodies is of paramount importance. To address issues such as incomplete extraction boundaries, mistaken feature identification, and omission of small water bodies, this study utilized very high-resolution (VHR) satellite images of the Chengdu urban area and its surroundings to create the Chengdu Urban Water Bodies Semantic Segmentation Dataset (CDUWD). Based on the shape characteristics of water bodies, these images were processed through annotation, cropping, and other operations. We introduced Ad-SegFormer, an enhanced model based on SegFormer, which integrates a densely connected atrous spatial pyramid pooling module (DenseASPP) and progressive feature pyramid network (AFPN) to better handle the multi-scale characteristics of urban water bodies. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of combining the CDUWD dataset with the Ad-SegFormer model for large-scale urban water body extraction, achieving accuracy rates exceeding 96%. This study demonstrates the effectiveness of Ad-SegFormer in improving water body extraction and provides a valuable reference for extracting large-scale urban water body information using VHR images.