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To achieve intelligent and automatic recognition of micro-terrain surrounding transmission lines, this paper proposes an improved semantic segmentation model based on UNet++. This model expands the single encoder into multiple encoders to accommodate the input of multi-source geographic features and introduces a gated fusion module (GFM) to effectively integrate the data from diverse sources. Additionally, the model incorporates a dual attention network (DA-Net) and a deep supervision strategy to enhance performance and robustness. The multi-source dataset used for the experiment includes the Digital Elevation Model (DEM), Elevation Coefficient of Variation (ECV), and profile curvature. The experimental results of the model comparison indicate that the improved model outperforms common semantic segmentation models in terms of multiple evaluation metrics, with pixel accuracy (PA) and intersection over union (IoU) reaching 92.26% and 85.63%, respectively. Notably, the performance in identifying the saddle and alpine watershed types has been enhanced significantly by the improved model. The ablation experiment results confirm that the introduced modules contribute to enhancing the model\u2019s segmentation performance. 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