With the process of increasing urbanization, there is great significance in obtaining urban change information by applying land cover change detection techniques. However, these existing methods still struggle to achieve convincing performances and are insufficient for practical applications. In this paper, we constructed a new data set, named Wenzhou data set, aiming to detect the land cover changes of Wenzhou City and thus update the urban expanding geographic data. Based on this data set, we provide a new self-attention and convolution fusion network (SCFNet) for the land cover change detection of the Wenzhou data set. The SCFNet is composed of three modules, including backbone (local–global pyramid feature extractor in SLGPNet), self-attention and convolution fusion module (SCFM), and residual refinement module (RRM). The SCFM combines the self-attention mechanism with convolutional layers to acquire a better feature representation. Furthermore, RRM exploits dilated convolutions with different dilation rates to refine more accurate and complete predictions over changed areas. In addition, to explore the performance of existing computational intelligence techniques in application scenarios, we selected six classical and advanced deep learning-based methods for systematic testing and comparison. The extensive experiments on the Wenzhou and Guangzhou data sets demonstrated that our SCFNet obviously outperforms other existing methods. On the Wenzhou data set, the precision, recall and F1-score of our SCFNet are all better than 85%.
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