China Safety Science Journal ›› 2022, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (4): 177-184.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2022.04.026

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Flood inundation area extraction method of SAR images based on deep learning

GUO Wei1,2(), YUAN Hongyong2, XUE Ming1, WEI Pingyan1   

  1. 1 Big Data Center of Ministry of Emergency Management, Beijing 100010, China
    2 Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • Received:2021-12-15 Revised:2022-03-17 Online:2022-04-28 Published:2022-10-28

Abstract:

In order to improve decision-making ability for flood disaster emergency rescue and quickly extract flood inundation areas, an extraction method of SAR images based on deep learning was proposed. Firstly, flood inundation area extraction model of SAR images was established based on DeepLab v3+ model. Then, considering difficulty in obtaining labeled samples of SAR images, a semi-automatic sample making method based on optical image water index was proposed, which greatly reduced the labor and time required for annotation. Lastly, Sentinel-1 images were used for experimental analysis to verify the model's accuracy. The results show that the proposed extraction model has strong adaptability to complex surfaces. Compared with the adaptive threshold method, it features higher recognition accuracy, and better recognition effect of water edge, small area water body and thin and long linear water body in remote sensing image, with an mean Intersection over Union of 0.83.

Key words: synthetic aperture radar (SAR), flood inundation area, deep learning, DeepLab v3+ model, water extraction