scholarly journals Automatic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images on Water Bodies Based on Image Enhancement

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 1037-1043
Author(s):  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Minquan Feng ◽  
Yu Wang

By virtue of high-resolution remote sensing satellites, there is a possibility to analyze remote sensing images on water bodies through digital image processing (DIP). In many remote sensing images, however, the water bodies have similar gray values as other ground objects. To effectively distinguish water bodies from other ground objects in these images, this paper proposes a logarithmic enhancement method for remote sensing images on water bodies based on adaptive morphology. The proposed method can filter the noise of non-target area, and enhance the water body in the original image. On this basis, a morphology-based segmentation method was designed for remote sensing images on water bodies. Experimental results show that our method achieved a high segmentation accuracy, controlling the mean segmentation error at below 1.32%.

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 571
Author(s):  
Jinglun Li ◽  
Jiapeng Xiu ◽  
Zhengqiu Yang ◽  
Chen Liu

Semantic segmentation plays an important role in being able to understand the content of remote sensing images. In recent years, deep learning methods based on Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) have proved to be effective for the sematic segmentation of remote sensing images. However, the rich information and complex content makes the training of networks for segmentation challenging, and the datasets are necessarily constrained. In this paper, we propose a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model called Dual Path Attention Network (DPA-Net) that has a simple modular structure and can be added to any segmentation model to enhance its ability to learn features. Two types of attention module are appended to the segmentation model, one focusing on spatial information the other focusing upon the channel. Then, the outputs of these two attention modules are fused to further improve the network’s ability to extract features, thus contributing to more precise segmentation results. Finally, data pre-processing and augmentation strategies are used to compensate for the small number of datasets and uneven distribution. The proposed network was tested on the Gaofen Image Dataset (GID). The results show that the network outperformed U-Net, PSP-Net, and DeepLab V3+ in terms of the mean IoU by 0.84%, 2.54%, and 1.32%, respectively.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 10062
Author(s):  
Aimin Li ◽  
Meng Fan ◽  
Guangduo Qin ◽  
Youcheng Xu ◽  
Hailong Wang

Monitoring open water bodies accurately is important for assessing the role of ecosystem services in the context of human survival and climate change. There are many methods available for water body extraction based on remote sensing images, such as the normalized difference water index (NDWI), modified NDWI (MNDWI), and machine learning algorithms. Based on Landsat-8 remote sensing images, this study focuses on the effects of six machine learning algorithms and three threshold methods used to extract water bodies, evaluates the transfer performance of models applied to remote sensing images in different periods, and compares the differences among these models. The results are as follows. (1) Various algorithms require different numbers of samples to reach their optimal consequence. The logistic regression algorithm requires a minimum of 110 samples. As the number of samples increases, the order of the optimal model is support vector machine, neural network, random forest, decision tree, and XGBoost. (2) The accuracy evaluation performance of each machine learning on the test set cannot represent the local area performance. (3) When these models are directly applied to remote sensing images in different periods, the AUC indicators of each machine learning algorithm for three regions all show a significant decline, with a decrease range of 0.33–66.52%, and the differences among the different algorithm performances in the three areas are obvious. Generally, the decision tree algorithm has good transfer performance among the machine learning algorithms with area under curve (AUC) indexes of 0.790, 0.518, and 0.697 in the three areas, respectively, and the average value is 0.668. The Otsu threshold algorithm is the optimal among threshold methods, with AUC indexes of 0.970, 0.617, and 0.908 in the three regions respectively and an average AUC of 0.832.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (23) ◽  
pp. 5284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heng Zhang ◽  
Jiayu Wu ◽  
Yanli Liu ◽  
Jia Yu

In recent years, the research on optical remote sensing images has received greater and greater attention. Object detection, as one of the most challenging tasks in the area of remote sensing, has been remarkably promoted by convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods like You Only Look Once (YOLO) and Faster R-CNN. However, due to the complexity of backgrounds and the distinctive object distribution, directly applying these general object detection methods to the remote sensing object detection usually renders poor performance. To tackle this problem, a highly efficient and robust framework based on YOLO is proposed. We devise and integrate VaryBlock to the architecture which effectively offsets some of the information loss caused by downsampling. In addition, some techniques are utilized to facilitate the performance and to avoid overfitting. Experimental results show that our proposed method can enormously improve the mean average precision by a large margin on the NWPU VHR-10 dataset.


2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongxiang Guo ◽  
Guojin He ◽  
Wei Jiang ◽  
Ranyu Yin ◽  
Lei Yan ◽  
...  

Automatic water body extraction method is important for monitoring floods, droughts, and water resources. In this study, a new semantic segmentation convolutional neural network named the multi-scale water extraction convolutional neural network (MWEN) is proposed to automatically extract water bodies from GaoFen-1 (GF-1) remote sensing images. Three convolutional neural networks for semantic segmentation (fully convolutional network (FCN), Unet, and Deeplab V3+) are employed to compare with the water bodies extraction performance of MWEN. Visual comparison and five evaluation metrics are used to evaluate the performance of these convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The results show the following. (1) The results of water body extraction in multiple scenes using the MWEN are better than those of the other comparison methods based on the indicators. (2) The MWEN method has the capability to accurately extract various types of water bodies, such as urban water bodies, open ponds, and plateau lakes. (3) By fusing features extracted at different scales, the MWEN has the capability to extract water bodies with different sizes and suppress noise, such as building shadows and highways. Therefore, MWEN is a robust water extraction algorithm for GaoFen-1 satellite images and has the potential to conduct water body mapping with multisource high-resolution satellite remote sensing data.


2012 ◽  
Vol 546-547 ◽  
pp. 1444-1447
Author(s):  
Kun Pang ◽  
Wen Bin Xie ◽  
Zhi Gang Ao ◽  
Guo Qin Qiu ◽  
Song Huang

Take the SPOT remote sensing images for a district in June 2009 as study object, using the texture feature methods based on the wavelet transform to the extraction for image water information, the results show that: The introduction of the wavelet transform and the edge of the restrictions to the the split of waters , can effectively extract and classify different colors, types of water bodies .


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