On the Importance of Feature Representation for Flood Mapping using Classical Machine Learning Approaches

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00691v1
• Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2023 17:39:08 GMT
• Title: On the Importance of Feature Representation for Flood Mapping using Classical Machine Learning Approaches
• Authors: Kevin Iselborn, Marco Stricker, Takashi Miyamoto, Marlon Nuske and Andreas Dengel
• Abstract summary: Flood inundation mapping based on earth observation data can help in providing cheap and accurate maps depicting the area affected by a flood event to emergency-relief units in near-real-time. This paper evaluates the potential of five traditional machine learning approaches such as gradient boosted decision trees, support vector machines or quadratic discriminant analysis. With total and mean IoU values of 0.8751 and 0.7031 compared to 0.70 and 0.5873 as the previous best-reported results, we show that a simple gradient boosting classifier can significantly improve over deep neural network based approaches.
• Score: 3.555368338253582
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Climate change has increased the severity and frequency of weather disasters all around the world. Flood inundation mapping based on earth observation data can help in this context, by providing cheap and accurate maps depicting the area affected by a flood event to emergency-relief units in near-real-time. Building upon the recent development of the Sen1Floods11 dataset, which provides a limited amount of hand-labeled high-quality training data, this paper evaluates the potential of five traditional machine learning approaches such as gradient boosted decision trees, support vector machines or quadratic discriminant analysis. By performing a grid-search-based hyperparameter optimization on 23 feature spaces we can show that all considered classifiers are capable of outperforming the current state-of-the-art neural network-based approaches in terms of total IoU on their best-performing feature spaces. With total and mean IoU values of 0.8751 and 0.7031 compared to 0.70 and 0.5873 as the previous best-reported results, we show that a simple gradient boosting classifier can significantly improve over deep neural network based approaches, despite using less training data. Furthermore, an analysis of the regional distribution of the Sen1Floods11 dataset reveals a problem of spatial imbalance. We show that traditional machine learning models can learn this bias and argue that modified metric evaluations are required to counter artifacts due to spatial imbalance. Lastly, a qualitative analysis shows that this pixel-wise classifier provides highly-precise surface water classifications indicating that a good choice of a feature space and pixel-wise classification can generate high-quality flood maps using optical and SAR data. We make our code publicly available at: https://github.com/DFKI-Earth-And-Space-Applications/Flood_Mapping_Feature_Space_Importance

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