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All of these increase the complexity of large-scale coverage predictions. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal model, DNN-SS, which combines a DNN (deep neural network) and SS (semantic segmentation) to perform coverage prediction for mobile networks. Firstly, DNN-SS filters the samples with a geospatial-temporal moving average filter algorithm, and then uses a DNN to extract numerical features. Secondly, a pre-trained model is used to perform semantic segmentation of satellite images of the measurement area. Thirdly, a DNN is used to extract features from the results after semantic segmentation to form environmental features. Finally, the prediction model is trained on the dataset consisting of numerical features and environmental features. The experimental results on campus show that for random location prediction, the model achieves a RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) of 1.97 dB and a MAE (Mean Absolute Error) of 1.41 dB, which is an improvement of 10.86% and 10.2%, respectively, compared with existing models. For the prediction of a test area, the RMSE and MAE of the model are 4.32 dB and 3.45 dB, respectively, and the RMSE is only 0.22 dB lower than that of existing models. 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