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Large-scale monitoring of HRBs is valuable in urban planning and environmental protection and so on. Due to the complex 3D structure and seasonal dynamic image features of HRBs, it is still challenging to monitor large-scale HRBs in a routine way. This paper extends our previous work on the use of the Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN) model to extract HRBs from Sentinel-2 data by studying the influence of seasonal and spatial factors on the performance of the FCN model. 16 Sentinel-2 subset images covering four diverse regions in four seasons were selected for training and validation. Our results indicate the performance of the FCN-based method at the extraction of HRBs from Sentinel-2 data fluctuates among seasons and regions. The seasonal change of accuracy is larger than that of the regional change. If an optimal season can be chosen to get a yearly best result, F1 score of detected HRBs can reach above 0.75 for all regions with most errors located on the boundary of HRBs. FCN model can be trained on seasonally and regionally combined samples to achieve similar or even better overall accuracy than that of the model trained on an optimal combination of season and region. Uncertainties exist on the boundary of detected results and may be relieved by revising the definition of HRBs in a more rigorous way. On the whole, the FCN based method can be largely effective at the extraction of HRBs from Sentinel-2 data in regions with a large diversity in culture, latitude, and landscape. Our results support the possibility to build a powerful FCN model on a larger size of training samples for operational monitoring HRBs at the regional level or even on a country scale.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13204073","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,13]],"date-time":"2021-10-13T06:38:41Z","timestamp":1634107121000},"page":"4073","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Detecting High-Rise Buildings from Sentinel-2 Data Based on Deep Learning Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Liwei","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"The Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 9 Deng Zhuang South Road, Beijing 100094, China"}]},{"given":"Jinming","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 9 Deng Zhuang South Road, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, No. 2001 Shiji Road, Jiaozuo 454000, China"}]},{"given":"Gang","family":"Cheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Surveying and Land Information Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, No. 2001 Shiji Road, Jiaozuo 454000, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0319-7753","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bing","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"The Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 9 Deng Zhuang South Road, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19 (A) Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Kova\u010devi\u0107, I., and D\u017eidi\u0107, S. 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