Ice floe segmentation and floe size distribution in airborne and high-resolution optical satellite images: towards an automated labelling deep learning approach
Floe size distribution (FSD) has become a parameter of great interest in observations of sea ice because of its importance in affecting climate change, marine ecosystems, and human activities in the polar ocean. A most effective way to monitor FSD in the ice-covered regions is to apply image process...
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ftnonlinearchiv:oai:noa.gwlb.de:cop_mods_00070760 2024-01-21T10:10:21+01:00 Ice floe segmentation and floe size distribution in airborne and high-resolution optical satellite images: towards an automated labelling deep learning approach Zhang, Qin Hughes, Nick 2023-12 electronic https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5519-2023 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00070760 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00069092/tc-17-5519-2023.pdf https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/5519/2023/tc-17-5519-2023.pdf eng eng Copernicus Publications The Cryosphere -- ˜Theœ Cryosphere -- http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/?2393169 -- http://www.the-cryosphere.net/ -- 1994-0424 https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5519-2023 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00070760 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00069092/tc-17-5519-2023.pdf https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/17/5519/2023/tc-17-5519-2023.pdf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ uneingeschränkt info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article Verlagsveröffentlichung article Text doc-type:article 2023 ftnonlinearchiv https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-5519-2023 2023-12-25T00:22:42Z Floe size distribution (FSD) has become a parameter of great interest in observations of sea ice because of its importance in affecting climate change, marine ecosystems, and human activities in the polar ocean. A most effective way to monitor FSD in the ice-covered regions is to apply image processing techniques to airborne and satellite remote sensing data, where the segmentation of individual ice floes is a challenge in obtaining FSD from remotely sensed images. In this study, we adopt a deep learning (DL) semantic segmentation network to fast and adaptive implement the task of ice floe instance segmentation. In order to alleviate the costly and time-consuming data annotation problem of model training, classical image processing technique is applied to automatically label ice floes in local-scale marginal ice zone (MIZ). Several state-of-the-art (SoA) semantic segmentation models are then trained on the labelled MIZ dataset and further applied to additional large-scale optical Sentinel-2 images to evaluate their performance in floe instance segmentation and to determine the best model. A post-processing algorithm is also proposed in our work to refine the segmentation. Our approach has been applied to both airborne and high-resolution optical (HRO) satellite images to derive acceptable FSDs at local and global scales. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice The Cryosphere Niedersächsisches Online-Archiv NOA The Cryosphere 17 12 5519 5537 |
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Floe size distribution (FSD) has become a parameter of great interest in observations of sea ice because of its importance in affecting climate change, marine ecosystems, and human activities in the polar ocean. A most effective way to monitor FSD in the ice-covered regions is to apply image processing techniques to airborne and satellite remote sensing data, where the segmentation of individual ice floes is a challenge in obtaining FSD from remotely sensed images. In this study, we adopt a deep learning (DL) semantic segmentation network to fast and adaptive implement the task of ice floe instance segmentation. In order to alleviate the costly and time-consuming data annotation problem of model training, classical image processing technique is applied to automatically label ice floes in local-scale marginal ice zone (MIZ). Several state-of-the-art (SoA) semantic segmentation models are then trained on the labelled MIZ dataset and further applied to additional large-scale optical Sentinel-2 images to evaluate their performance in floe instance segmentation and to determine the best model. A post-processing algorithm is also proposed in our work to refine the segmentation. Our approach has been applied to both airborne and high-resolution optical (HRO) satellite images to derive acceptable FSDs at local and global scales. |
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Ice floe segmentation and floe size distribution in airborne and high-resolution optical satellite images: towards an automated labelling deep learning approach |
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Ice floe segmentation and floe size distribution in airborne and high-resolution optical satellite images: towards an automated labelling deep learning approach |
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Ice floe segmentation and floe size distribution in airborne and high-resolution optical satellite images: towards an automated labelling deep learning approach |
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Ice floe segmentation and floe size distribution in airborne and high-resolution optical satellite images: towards an automated labelling deep learning approach |
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Ice floe segmentation and floe size distribution in airborne and high-resolution optical satellite images: towards an automated labelling deep learning approach |
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ice floe segmentation and floe size distribution in airborne and high-resolution optical satellite images: towards an automated labelling deep learning approach |
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