Inland Water Body Mapping Using Multitemporal Sentinel-1 SAR Data

Climate change studies require increasingly detailed information on land cover and land use, to precisely model and predict climate based on their status and changes. A fundamental land cover type that needs to be constantly monitored by the climate change community is water, but currently there is...

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Published in:IEEE journal of selected topics in applied earth observations and remote sensing 2021, Vol.14, p.11789-11799
Main Authors: Marzi, David, Gamba, Paolo
Format: Article
Language:English
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Climate change
Climate prediction
Climate studies
Clustering
Data mining
Earth
Feature extraction
Geomorphology
Inland waters
Land cover
Land surface
Land use
Mapping
Optical sensors
Resolution
Sentinel-1
Spatial discrimination
Spatial resolution
Surface morphology
Synthetic aperture radar
synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
time series analysis
Water bodies
water mapping
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Summary:Climate change studies require increasingly detailed information on land cover and land use, to precisely model and predict climate based on their status and changes. A fundamental land cover type that needs to be constantly monitored by the climate change community is water, but currently there is a lack of high-resolution water body maps at the global scale. In this article, we present a fully automated procedure for the extraction of fine spatial resolution (10 m) inland water land cover maps for any region of the Earth by means of a relatively simple k -means clustering model applied to multitemporal features extracted from Sentinel-1 SAR sequences. Indeed, due to heavy cloud coverage conditions in many locations, multispectral sensors are not suitable for global water body mapping. For this reason, in this work, we deal only with SAR data, and specifically with multitemporal Sentinel-1 data sequences. The experimental results, obtained for three geographical areas selected because of their wide diversity in terms of geomorphology and climate, show an almost complete consistency with existing datasets, and improve them thanks to their finer spatial details.
ISSN:1939-1404
2151-1535
DOI:10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3127748