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Unsupervised flood detection on SAR time series using variational autoencoder
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Urban Planning and Environment, Geoinformatics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3599-3164
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Urban Planning and Environment, Geoinformatics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9692-8636
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning, RPL.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5211-6388
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Urban Planning and Environment, Geoinformatics.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1369-3216
2024 (English)In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, ISSN 1569-8432, E-ISSN 1872-826X, Vol. 126, article id 103635Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this study, we propose a novel unsupervised Change Detection (CD) model to detect flood extent using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) time series data. The proposed model is based on a spatiotemporal variational autoencoder, trained with reconstruction and contrastive learning techniques. The change maps are generated with a proposed novel algorithm that utilizes differences in latent feature distributions between pre-flood and post-flood data. The model is evaluated on nine different flood events by comparing the results with reference flood maps collected from the Copernicus Emergency Management Services (CEMS) and Sen1Floods11 dataset. We conducted a range of experiments and ablation studies to investigate the performance of our model. We compared the results with existing unsupervised models. The model achieved an average of 70% Intersection over Union (IoU) score which is at least 7% better than the IoU from existing unsupervised CD models. In the generalizability test, the proposed model outperformed supervised models ADS-Net (by 10% IoU) and DAUSAR (by 8% IoU), both trained on Sen1Floods11 and tested on CEMS sites. Our implementation will be available here https://github.com/RituYadav92/CLVAE-Unsupervised_Change_Detection_TimeSeriesSAR.

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Elsevier BV , 2024. Vol. 126, article id 103635
Keywords [en]
Contrastive learning, Flood detection, SAR, Time series, Unsupervised change detection, VAE
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Computer Sciences Signal Processing
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-342193DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2023.103635ISI: 001143611500001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85181026128OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-342193DiVA, id: diva2:1827898
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Yadav, RituNascetti, AndreaAzizpour, HosseinBan, Yifang

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