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Marine Oil Spill Detection from SAR Images Based on Attention U-Net Model Using Polarimetric and Wind Speed Information

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  • Yan Chen

    (China JIKAN Research Institute of Engineering Investigations and Design, Co., Ltd., Xi’an 710043, China)

  • Zhilong Wang

    (School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China)

Abstract

With the rapid development of marine trade, marine oil pollution is becoming increasingly severe, which can exert damage to the health of the marine environment. Therefore, detection of marine oil spills is important for effectively starting the oil-spill cleaning process and the protection of the marine environment. The polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) technique has been applied to the detection of marine oil spills in recent years. However, most current studies still focus on using the simple intensity or amplitude information of SAR data and the detection results are not reliable enough. This paper presents a deep-learning-based method to detect oil spills on the marine surface from Sentinel-1 PolSAR satellite images. Specifically, attention gates are added to the U-Net network architecture, which ensures that the model focuses more on feature extraction. In the training process of the model, sufficient Sentinel-1 PolSAR images are selected as sample data. The polarimetric information from the PolSAR dataset and the wind-speed information of the marine surface are both taken into account when training the model and detecting oil spills. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves better performance than the traditional methods, and taking into account both the polarimetric and wind-speed information, can indeed improve the oil-spill detection results. In addition, the model shows pleasing performance in capturing the fine details of the boundaries of the oil-spill patches.

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  • Yan Chen & Zhilong Wang, 2022. "Marine Oil Spill Detection from SAR Images Based on Attention U-Net Model Using Polarimetric and Wind Speed Information," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(19), pages 1-11, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:19:p:12315-:d:927533
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    1. Jiajun Liu & Haokun Lin & Yue Liu & Lei Xiong & Chenjing Li & Tinghu Zhou & Mike Ma, 2023. "Global Relation-Aware-Based Oil Detection Method for Water Surface of Catchment Wells in Hydropower Stations," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(8), pages 1-18, April.

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