Call For Paper Volume: V, Issue: 08 | AUGUST 2026 | International Journal of Advanced Trends in Engineering and Management (IJATEM)
Volume V | Issue 6 | 2026 | Paper ID: IJATEM-V05I06P3

Satellite Land-Use Scene Classification Using NGO-Optimized Densenet121 and Deep Belief Network Hybrid Model

, Thomas Thangam

In recent days, remote sensing images (RSIs) are increasingly utilized for observing the changes in rural and urban areas and other wide range of applications such as disaster risk assessment, land use and environmental status. Since the resolution of RSIs is high with varying and wide data, clear illustration of RSIs is required. In geospatial analysis and remote sensing, Land use and Land-cover (LULC) classification based on deep learning (DL) has been emerged as effective approach that make use of Shapley additive explanations (SHAPs), which is a part of explainable artificial Intelligence (XAI). It aids in environmental monitoring, land management, mapping and land planning. Maintaining better accuracy in classification is necessary in various application domains. Hence in this work, a innovative structure that integrates Dense Net 121 and Deep Belief Network (DBN) model is employed to optimize parameters of Norther Goshawk Optimization (NGO) Algorithm, which aids in enhancing classification accuracy of classifier employed in this work. Effective feature extraction is performed using DenseNet121 through dense feature propagation, NGO optimize model parameters and improve quality of learned feature representation and DBN performs higher-level representations from extracted features. Outcomes achieved from simulation shows better results for NGO optimized DenseNet121 and DBN model than other conventional approaches.

Land-use, Shapley additive explanation (SHAP), explainable AI (XAI), Northern Goshawk Optimization (NGO), DenseNet121 and Deep Belief Network.

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