DINOv3-Driven Semantic Segmentation for Landslide Mapping in Mountainous Regions

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Authors: Zhiyi Dou, Edore Akpokodje, Yuelin He, Yuxin Liu, Zixuan Ni, Chang’an Xu, Muhammad Aslam, Meng Tang
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Abstract

Landslide hazard assessment increasingly demands the joint analysis of heterogeneous remote sensing data; however, automating this process remains difficult due to the pronounced resolution and texture discrepancies existing between satellite and aerial sensors. To address these limitations, this study proposes a robust segmentation framework capable of extracting sensor-robust representations. The framework leverages a DINOv3 transformer encoder and exploits representations from multiple transformer layers to capture complementary visual information, ranging from fine-grained surface textures to global semantic contexts, overcoming the receptive field constraints of conventional CNNs. Experiments on the Longxi satellite dataset achieve a Dice coefficient of 0.96 and an IoU of 0.938, and experiments on the Longxi UAV dataset achieve a Dice coefficient of 0.965 and an IoU of 0.941. These results show consistent segmentation performance on both the Longxi satellite and UAV datasets, despite differences in spatial resolution and surface appearance between acquisition platforms.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Landslides and related hazards Remote-Sensing Image Classification Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques

Publication details

Journal / source
Sensors
Publisher
MDPI AG
Volume
26
Issue
2
Pages
406–406
Publication date
8 January 2026
Language
EN