Title
Enhancement of detecting permanent water and temporary water in flood disasters by fusing sentinel-1 and sentinel-2 imagery using deep learning algorithms: Demonstration of sen1floods11 benchmark datasets
Date Issued
01 June 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Bai Y.
Wu W.
Yang Z.
Yu J.
Zhao B.
Liu X.
Yang H.
Koshimura S.
Tohoku University
Publisher(s)
MDPI AG
Abstract
Identifying permanent water and temporary water in flood disasters efficiently has mainly relied on change detection method from multi-temporal remote sensing imageries, but estimating the water type in flood disaster events from only post-flood remote sensing imageries still remains challenging. Research progress in recent years has demonstrated the excellent potential of multisource data fusion and deep learning algorithms in improving flood detection, while this field has only been studied initially due to the lack of large-scale labelled remote sensing images of flood events. Here, we present new deep learning algorithms and a multi-source data fusion driven flood inundation mapping approach by leveraging a large-scale publicly available Sen1Flood11 dataset consisting of roughly 4831 labelled Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 optical imagery gathered from flood events worldwide in recent years. Specifically, we proposed an automatic segmentation method for surface water, permanent water, and temporary water identification, and all tasks share the same convolutional neural network architecture. We utilize focal loss to deal with the class (water/non-water) imbalance problem. Thorough ablation experiments and analysis confirmed the effectiveness of various proposed designs. In comparison experiments, the method proposed in this paper is superior to other classical models. Our model achieves a mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 52.99%, Intersection over Union (IoU) of 52.30%, and Overall Accuracy (OA) of 92.81% on the Sen1Flood11 test set. On the Sen1Flood11 Bolivia test set, our model also achieves very high mIoU (47.88%), IoU (76.74%), and OA (95.59%) and shows good generalization ability.
Start page
NA
Volume
13
Issue
11
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otras ingenierías y tecnologías Ciencias ambientales Ingeniería civil
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85108459283
Source
Remote Sensing
ISSN of the container
20724292
Sponsor(s)
Funding: This research was partly funded by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Research Funds of Renmin University of China (20XNF022), the fund for building world-class universities (disciplines) of Renmin University of China, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Kakenhi Program (17H06108), and Core Research Cluster of Disaster Science and Tough Cyberphysical AI Research Center at Tohoku University. The author gratefully acknowledges the support of K.C. Wong Education Foundation, Hong Kong.
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