The ability to monitor the evolution of the coastal zone over time is an important factor in coastal knowledge, development, planning, risk mitigation, and overall coastal zone management. While traditional bathymetry surveys using echo-sounding techniques are expensive and time consuming, remote sensing tools have recently emerged as reliable and inexpensive data sources that can be used to estimate bathymetry using depth inversion models. Deep learning is a growing field of artificial intelligence that allows for the automatic construction of models from data and has been successfully used for various Earth observation and model inversion applications. In this work, we make use of publicly available Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and multiple bathymetry surveys to train a deep learning-based bathymetry estimation model. We explore for the first time two complementary approaches, based on color information but also wave kinematics, as inputs to the deep learning model. This offers the possibility to derive bathymetry not only in clear waters as previously done with deep learning models but also at common turbid coastal zones. We show competitive results with a state-of-the-art physical inversion method for satellite-derived bathymetry, Satellite to Shores (S2Shores), demonstrating a promising direction for worldwide applicability of deep learning models to inverse bathymetry from satellite imagery and a novel use of deep learning models in Earth observation.
Abstract. Knowledge of the evolution of the littoral zone over time is paramount for coastal science and coastal zone management. However, traditional bathymetric surveys using echo-sounding techniques are unsuitable for large-scale applications due to a variety of constraints. On the other hand, remote sensing data such as satellite imagery allow for the development and application of bathymetry inversion models on a large scale. Deep learning is a growing field of artificial intelligence that allows for the automatic construction of models from data and has been successfully used for various Earth Observation and model inversion applications. In this work, we develop and apply a deep learning-based depth inversion model combining wave kinematics and water color information from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. We present two different satellite image processing methods to augment wave kinematics and color information as inputs to the proposed deep learning-based models. We show competitive results with a state-of-the-art physical inversion method for satellite derived bathymetry, Satellite to Shores (S2Shores), demonstrating a promising direction for the use of deep learning models in Satellite Derived Bathymetry (SDB) and Earth observation in general.
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