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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Remote Sens.

Sec. Agro-Environmental Remote Sensing

A Multi-Feature Fusion Based Remote Sensing Inversion Method for Farmland Shelterbelts

Provisionally accepted
Qi  ZhangQi ZhangYuncheng  ZhouYuncheng Zhou*Hongge  ZhaoHongge ZhaoWenhao  WuWenhao WuYuekun  HuangYuekun Huang
  • Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

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Precise segmentation of farmland shelterbelts in high-resolution remote sensing imagery represents a crucial yet challenging task for establishing a quantifiable farmland quality evaluation system. The core difficulties arise from two principal issues: (1) effectively distinguishing cultivated land from shelterbelts with similar textural characteristics while suppressing interference from complex backgrounds such as roads and ditches; and (2) accurately segmenting narrow, elongated, and discontinuously distributed single-row shelterbelts with blurred boundaries. Conventional semantic segmentation methods, primarily designed for large-scale objects in natural scenes, generally underperform when confronted with the distinctive characteristics of remote sensing targets. To overcome these challenges, we propose a novel remote sensing inversion framework based on multi-feature fusion. For the first challenge, we designed a Multi-Feature Fusion Block (MFFB) that utilizes a Spatial Gated Fusion Mechanism (SGFM) to adaptively integrate global contextual features captured by Mamba-like linear attention, local details extracted through convolutional operators, and frequency-domain information obtained via Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), thereby significantly enhancing the model's capacity to represent and discriminate complex features. To address the second challenge, we introduced a super-resolution preprocessing strategy along with a Multi-Scale Contextual feature Extraction (MSCE) module within an encoder-decoder architecture. The former effectively increases the pixel width of narrow shelterbelts through enhanced image detail reconstruction, while the latter ensures segmentation continuity for elongated features by integrating multi-scale contextual information. Experimental results on our self-constructed farmland shelterbelt dataset demonstrate that our method achieves segmentation accuracies of 96.42% for cultivated land and 82.83% for shelterbelts, outperforming both mainstream general-purpose semantic segmentation models and specialized remote sensing methods, thus validating the effectiveness of the proposed framework for precise farmland shelterbelt extraction.

Keywords: deep learning, Farmland shelterbelts, Multi-feature fusion, remote sensing, Semantic segmentation

Received: 22 Oct 2025; Accepted: 26 Jan 2026.

Copyright: © 2026 Zhang, Zhou, Zhao, Wu and Huang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Yuncheng Zhou

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