Enhancing sea ice segmentation in Sentinel-1 images with atrous convolutions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17122v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 03:43:28 GMT
• Title: Enhancing sea ice segmentation in Sentinel-1 images with atrous convolutions
• Authors: Rafael Pires de Lima, Behzad Vahedi, Nick Hughes, Andrew P. Barrett, Walter Meier, Morteza Karimzadeh
• Abstract summary: We use Extreme Earth version 2, a high-resolution benchmark dataset generated for ML training and evaluation. Our pipeline combines ResNets and Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling for SAR image segmentation. Our approach can efficiently segment full SAR scenes in one run, is faster than the baseline U-Net, retains spatial resolution and dimension, and is more robust against noise compared to approaches that rely on patch classification.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Due to the growing volume of remote sensing data and the low latency required for safe marine navigation, machine learning (ML) algorithms are being developed to accelerate sea ice chart generation, currently a manual interpretation task. However, the low signal-to-noise ratio of the freely available Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery, the ambiguity of backscatter signals for ice types, and the scarcity of open-source high-resolution labelled data makes automating sea ice mapping challenging. We use Extreme Earth version 2, a high-resolution benchmark dataset generated for ML training and evaluation, to investigate the effectiveness of ML for automated sea ice mapping. Our customized pipeline combines ResNets and Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling for SAR image segmentation. We investigate the performance of our model for: i) binary classification of sea ice and open water in a segmentation framework; and ii) a multiclass segmentation of five sea ice types. For binary ice-water classification, models trained with our largest training set have weighted F1 scores all greater than 0.95 for January and July test scenes. Specifically, the median weighted F1 score was 0.98, indicating high performance for both months. By comparison, a competitive baseline U-Net has a weighted average F1 score of ranging from 0.92 to 0.94 (median 0.93) for July, and 0.97 to 0.98 (median 0.97) for January. Multiclass ice type classification is more challenging, and even though our models achieve 2% improvement in weighted F1 average compared to the baseline U-Net, test weighted F1 is generally between 0.6 and 0.80. Our approach can efficiently segment full SAR scenes in one run, is faster than the baseline U-Net, retains spatial resolution and dimension, and is more robust against noise compared to approaches that rely on patch classification.

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