Tri-Band Assessment of Multi-Spectral Satellite Data for Flood Detection

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Article

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1.2 COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

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Proceedings of MACLEAN: MAChine Learning for EArth ObservatioN Workshop co-located with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2020)

Abstract

Multi-spectral satellite data provides vast resources for im- portant tasks such as flood detection, but training and fine tuning mod- els to perform optimally across multi-spectral data remains a significant research challenge. In light of this problem, we present a systematic ex- amination of the role of tri-band deep convolutional neural networks in flood prediction. Using Sentinel-2 data we explore the suitability of different deep convolutional architectures in a flood detection task; in particular we examine the utility of VGG16, ResNet18, ResNet50 and EfficientNet. Importantly our analysis considers the questions of different band combinations and the issue of pre-trained versus non-pre-trained model application. Our experiment shows that a 0.96 F1 score is achiev- able for our task through appropriate combinations of spectral bands and convolutional neural networks. For flood detection, three-band com- binations of RB8aB11 and RB11B outperformed 33 other combinations when trained with pre-trained ResNet18 and other models. Our anal- ysis further demonstrates a strong performance by pre-trained models despite the fact that these pre-trained models were originally trained on different spectral bands.

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https://doi.org/10.21427/y1ct-9876

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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
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