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To better manage this risk, especially for open-pit mine (OM) operations, new earth observation tools are required for more accurate baseline mapping and subsequent monitoring. The purpose of this paper is to propose an object-oriented open-pit mine mapping (OOMM) framework from Gaofen-2 (GF-2) high-spatial resolution satellite image (HSRSI), based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). To better present the different land use categories (LUCs) in the OM area, a minimum heterogeneity criterion-based multi-scale segmentation method was used, while a mean area ratio method was applied to optimize the segmentation scale of each LUC. After image segmentation, three object-feature domains were obtained based on the GF-2 HSRSI: spectral, texture, and geometric features. Then, the gradient boosting decision tree and Pearson correlation coefficient were used as an object feature information reduction (FIR) method to recognize the distinguishing feature that describe open-pit mines (OMs). Finally, the CNN was used by combing the significant features to map the OM. In total, 105 OM sites were extracted from the interpretation of GF-2 HSRSIs and the boundary of each OM was validated by field work and used as inputs to evaluate the open-pit mine mapping (OMM) accuracy. The results revealed that: (1) the FIR tool made a positive impact on effective OMM; (2) by splitting the segmented objects into two groups, training and testing sets which are composed of 70% of the objects, and validation sets which are formed by the remaining 30% of the objects, then combing the selected feature subsets for training to achieve an overall accuracy (OA) of 90.13% and a Kappa coefficient (KC) of 0.88 of the whole datasets; (3) comparing the results of the state-of-the-art method, support vector machine (SVM), in OMM, the proposed framework outperformed SVM by more than 7.28% in OA, 8.64% in KC, 6.15% in producer accuracy of OM and by 9.31% in user accuracy of OM. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time that OM information has been used through the integration of multiscale segmentation of HSRSI with the CNN to get OMM results. The proposed framework can not only provide reliable technical support for the scientific management and environmental monitoring of open pit mining areas, but also be of wide generality and be applicable to other kinds of land use mapping in mining areas using HSR images.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12233895","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,27]],"date-time":"2020-11-27T09:16:49Z","timestamp":1606468609000},"page":"3895","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":33,"title":["Object-Oriented Open-Pit Mine Mapping Using Gaofen-2 Satellite Image and Convolutional Neural Network, for the Yuzhou City, China"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6965-1256","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tao","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"}]},{"given":"Naixun","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"}]},{"given":"Ruiqing","family":"Niu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China"}]},{"given":"Na","family":"Zhen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Geological Environment Monitoring Institute of Henan Province, Zhengzhou 450006, China"}]},{"given":"Antonio","family":"Plaza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory, Department of Technology of Computers and Communications, Escuela Polit\u00e9cnica, University of Extremadura, 10071 C\u00e1ceres, Spain"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,11,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"33","article-title":"The pressure exerted on the natural environment in the open pit exploitation areas in Oltenia","volume":"5","author":"Peptenatu","year":"2010","journal-title":"Carpath. 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