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The tremendous progress made in recent years in image translation based on generative adversarial networks has led to rapid progress in aerial image-to-map translation. Still, the generated results could be better regarding quality, accuracy, and visual impact. This paper proposes a supervised model (SAM-GAN) based on generative adversarial networks (GAN) to improve the performance of aerial image-to-map translation. In the model, we introduce a new generator and multi-scale discriminator. The generator is a conditional GAN model that extracts the content and style space from aerial images and maps and learns to generalize the patterns of aerial image-to-map style transformation. We introduce image style loss and topological consistency loss to improve the model\u2019s pixel-level accuracy and topological performance. Furthermore, using the Maps dataset, a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative comparison is made between the SAM-GAN model and previous methods used for aerial image-to-map translation in combination with excellent evaluation metrics. Experiments showed that SAM-GAN outperformed existing methods in both quantitative and qualitative results.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijgi12040159","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,10]],"date-time":"2023-04-10T03:15:57Z","timestamp":1681096557000},"page":"159","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["SAM-GAN: Supervised Learning-Based Aerial Image-to-Map Translation via Generative Adversarial Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-7654-5334","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jian","family":"Xu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geoscience and Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiaowen","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geoscience and Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chaolin","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geoscience and Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bing","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geoscience and Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hongwei","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Geoscience and Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1517","article-title":"Retrospect and Prospect of the Development of Chinese Cartography","volume":"46","author":"Liao","year":"2017","journal-title":"J. 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