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Its purpose is to establish the most stringent environmental protection system to meet the urgent needs of ecological function guarantee and environmental safety. Nowadays, deep learning methods have been widely used in change detection tasks based on remote sensing images, which can just be applied to the monitoring of the ecological redline. Considering the convolution-based neural networks\u2019 lack of utilization of global information, we choose a transformer to devise a Siamese network for change detection. We also use a transformer to design a pyramid pooling module to help the network maintain more features. Moreover, we construct a self-supervised network based on a contrastive method to obtain a pre-trained model, especially for remote sensing images, aiming to achieve better results. As for study areas and data sources, we chose Hebei Province, where the environmental problem is quite nervous, and used its GF-1 satellite images to do our research. Through ablation experiments and contrast experiments, our method is proven to have significant advantages in terms of accuracy and efficiency. We also predict large-scale areas and calculate the intersection recall rate, which confirms that our method has practical values.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15030588","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,19]],"date-time":"2023-01-19T05:06:14Z","timestamp":1674104774000},"page":"588","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["A Transformer-Based Neural Network with Improved Pyramid Pooling Module for Change Detection in Ecological Redline Monitoring"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5086-8356","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yunjia","family":"Zou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Airborne Remote Sensing Center, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"},{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ting","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Airborne Remote Sensing Center, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4293-6459","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhengchao","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Airborne Remote Sensing Center, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5567-5801","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pan","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2938-7419","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xuan","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Luyang","family":"Zan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Airborne Remote Sensing Center, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"196","DOI":"10.1007\/s11769-012-0528-y","article-title":"Major function oriented zone: New method of spatial regulation for reshaping regional development pattern in China","volume":"22","author":"Fan","year":"2012","journal-title":"Chin. 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