MeltPondNet: A Swin Transformer U-Net for Detection of Melt Ponds on Arctic Sea Ice
High-resolution aerial photographs of Arctic region are a great source for different sea ice feature recognition, which are crucial to validate, tune, and improve climate models. Melt ponds on the surface of melting Arctic sea ice are of particular interest as they are sensitive and valuable indicat...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:a6ebd00d0edb4355a02f8a4de95bc73c 2023-05-15T14:36:56+02:00 MeltPondNet: A Swin Transformer U-Net for Detection of Melt Ponds on Arctic Sea Ice Ivan Sudakow Vijayan K. Asari Ruixu Liu Denis Demchev 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3213192 https://doaj.org/article/a6ebd00d0edb4355a02f8a4de95bc73c EN eng IEEE https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9914571/ https://doaj.org/toc/2151-1535 2151-1535 doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3213192 https://doaj.org/article/a6ebd00d0edb4355a02f8a4de95bc73c IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol 15, Pp 8776-8784 (2022) Arctic complex system deep learning melt ponds remote sensing sea ice Ocean engineering TC1501-1800 Geophysics. Cosmic physics QC801-809 article 2022 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3213192 2022-12-30T21:43:52Z High-resolution aerial photographs of Arctic region are a great source for different sea ice feature recognition, which are crucial to validate, tune, and improve climate models. Melt ponds on the surface of melting Arctic sea ice are of particular interest as they are sensitive and valuable indicators and are proxy to the processes in the Arctic climate system. Manual analysis of this remote sensing data is extremely difficult and time-consuming due to the complex shapes and unpredictable boundaries of the melt ponds, and that leads to the necessity for automatizing the processes. In this study, we propose a robust and efficient automatic method for melt pond region segmentation and boundary extraction from high-resolution aerial photographs. The proposed algorithm is based on a swin transformer U-Net in which we introduce novel cross-channel attention mechanisms into the decoder design. The framework operates with optical data and allows for classifying imagery into four classes, i.e., sea ice/snow, open water, melt pond, and submerged ice. We use aerial photographs collected during the Healy–Oden Trans Arctic Expedition over Arctic sea ice in the summer season of 2005 as test data. The experimental results show that the proposed method is suitable for precise automatic extraction of melt pond geometry, and it can also be extended for other optical data sources that involve melt ponds. The approach has a promising potential to be used to analyze melt ponds' corresponding changes between years. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Sea ice Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 15 8776 8784 |
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High-resolution aerial photographs of Arctic region are a great source for different sea ice feature recognition, which are crucial to validate, tune, and improve climate models. Melt ponds on the surface of melting Arctic sea ice are of particular interest as they are sensitive and valuable indicators and are proxy to the processes in the Arctic climate system. Manual analysis of this remote sensing data is extremely difficult and time-consuming due to the complex shapes and unpredictable boundaries of the melt ponds, and that leads to the necessity for automatizing the processes. In this study, we propose a robust and efficient automatic method for melt pond region segmentation and boundary extraction from high-resolution aerial photographs. The proposed algorithm is based on a swin transformer U-Net in which we introduce novel cross-channel attention mechanisms into the decoder design. The framework operates with optical data and allows for classifying imagery into four classes, i.e., sea ice/snow, open water, melt pond, and submerged ice. We use aerial photographs collected during the Healy–Oden Trans Arctic Expedition over Arctic sea ice in the summer season of 2005 as test data. The experimental results show that the proposed method is suitable for precise automatic extraction of melt pond geometry, and it can also be extended for other optical data sources that involve melt ponds. The approach has a promising potential to be used to analyze melt ponds' corresponding changes between years. |
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MeltPondNet: A Swin Transformer U-Net for Detection of Melt Ponds on Arctic Sea Ice |
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MeltPondNet: A Swin Transformer U-Net for Detection of Melt Ponds on Arctic Sea Ice |
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MeltPondNet: A Swin Transformer U-Net for Detection of Melt Ponds on Arctic Sea Ice |
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MeltPondNet: A Swin Transformer U-Net for Detection of Melt Ponds on Arctic Sea Ice |
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MeltPondNet: A Swin Transformer U-Net for Detection of Melt Ponds on Arctic Sea Ice |
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meltpondnet: a swin transformer u-net for detection of melt ponds on arctic sea ice |
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