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It plays an important role in the prevention of natural disasters, resource utilization, and water quality monitoring. Inspired by the recent years of research in computer vision on fully convolutional neural networks (FCN), an end-to-end trainable model named the multi-scale lake water extraction network (MSLWENet) is proposed. We use ResNet-101 with depthwise separable convolution as an encoder to obtain the high-level feature information of the input image and design a multi-scale densely connected module to expand the receptive field of feature points by different dilation rates without increasing the computation. In the decoder, the residual convolution is used to abstract the features and fuse the features at different levels, which can obtain the final lake water body extraction map. Through visual interpretation of the experimental results and the calculation of the evaluation indicators, we can see that our model extracts the water bodies of small lakes well and solves the problem of large intra-class variance and small inter-class variance in the lakes\u2019 water bodies. The overall accuracy of our model is up to 98.53% based on the evaluation indicators. Experimental results demonstrate that the MSLWENet, which benefits from the convolutional neural network, is an excellent lake water body extraction network.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12244140","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,21]],"date-time":"2020-12-21T01:01:08Z","timestamp":1608512468000},"page":"4140","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":89,"title":["MSLWENet: A Novel Deep Learning Network for Lake Water Body Extraction of Google Remote Sensing Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Zhaobin","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China"},{"name":"National Glaciology Geocryology Desert Data Center, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiong","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8905-9006","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yaonan","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Glaciology Geocryology Desert Data Center, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Guohui","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Glaciology Geocryology Desert Data Center, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,12,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2388","DOI":"10.4319\/lo.2006.51.5.2388","article-title":"The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments","volume":"51","author":"Downing","year":"2006","journal-title":"Limnol. 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